Technical Director – Backend Services
What you'll be doing:
- Head a team of Lead, Principal, Senior and non-Senior Engineers, with responsibility for performance management and development/pastoral care ensuring exceptional level of service to our clients
- Support the CTO, VP of Engineering or Head of Engineering in technical discussions with clients on prospective projects
- Provide support/input to the People Team on HR initiatives relating to the MPG People Plan
- Communicate with stakeholders on projects to extract requirements and advise on solutions
- Architect, design and implement functionality for clients
- Continuously work to minimise technical, maintenance issues and mitigate risks
- Champion quality in MPG and our clients development process
What we'll need from you:
- Experience with architecture and operation of highly scalable backend systems
- Experience shipping and operating live games (or products) as Lead Engineer
- Experience with multiple programming languages with focus on backends
- Experience with a range of databases and their trade offs
- Experience with people management
- Ability to create high level documentation, diagrams, designs, etc
- Ability to advise leads & team members on technical and production matters
- Ability to communicate with multiple stakeholders and prioritise work
- Ability to set direction, consider trade-offs and communicate priorities effectively
- Excellent communicator with the ability to verbalise conceptual thoughts and the willingness to accept constructive critique
- Attention to detail with a strong ability to analyse and comprehend direction
What would help:
- Experience with architecture of backends for multiplayer games is highly desirable
- Golang, Java, C#/.NET or Python experience is highly desirable
- Experience with cloud platforms: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure
- Expert Database experience with both SQL and No SQL highly desirable
- Understanding of and experience with orchestration

it’s more than a career choice.
Dale Taylor joined MPG as a Software Engineer in 2020.
He said: “MPG recognises what its okay to ask of us and what isn't. We're not expected to overextend ourselves for the sake of a project or development cycle. They've given me nothing but encouragement and room to grow and become a better dev with every project and task they've given me."
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