Technical Director, Live Games
Technical Director, Live Games
Toronto, ON
Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
Full-time
Engineering
Reports to: Head of Engineering
Compensation range: CAD $180,000 to $220,000
About Big Viking Games
Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing online game communities. Our games have entertained players for years, supported by loyal audiences, live operations, evolving content systems, product innovation, and deep player-driven economies.
We operate long-running live-service virtual worlds with rich in-game economies, virtual goods, social interaction, and player communities that have stayed with the games for years.
We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger engineering discipline, practical AI adoption, improved reliability, better internal tooling, and scalable systems that help our games and teams perform at a higher level.
About the Role
Big Viking Games is hiring a Technical Director, Live Games to own the technical direction, architecture, and engineering standards across our live titles and the shared platform services they depend on.
This is a senior hands-on technical leadership role. The split is roughly 75% hands-on engineering and 25% technical leadership.
That matters. You will be in the codebase most of the week. The leadership part is real: aligning engineers, making archit
