VP, Game Engineering

October 1

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Fortis Games

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Fortis Games is a gaming company dedicated to creating meaningful and engaging video games. With an international, fully remote team, Fortis focuses on innovative game design as a competitive advantage. The company fosters collaboration over competition, seeking to build connections and inspire communities through their creative works. Fortis Games is committed to redefining industry standards by changing the conventional approach to teamwork, project development, and recruitment within the gaming industry.

201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

📋 Description

• Build and evolve our game engineering org with clear structure, strong leaders, and great collaboration across teams. • Mentor and support Technical Directors, helping them lead with confidence and autonomy. • Push for workflows and tools that keep development fast, simple, and efficient - from project setup to live service. • Own and evolve shared client-side tech (frameworks, Unity integrations, tools) so they’re easy to use, reliable, and help teams ship faster. • Set and maintain high standards for code quality, performance, documentation, and observability. • Partner with design, product, art, publishing, and other functions to make engineering a proactive, solutions-first partner. • Lead hiring and retention for game engineering - raising the bar for technical and leadership talent. • Balance resourcing across game teams, adjusting as portfolio needs shift. • Make sure engineering has visibility and a voice in company priorities at the exec level.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience as a senior engineering leader in games, running multi-team orgs delivering live/service titles. • Proven ability to grow and coach Technical Directors and build technical leadership in distributed teams. • Track record of shaping org design, workflows, and integrating new tech (including AI) to boost development speed. • Strong technical credibility, especially in Unity and games-as-a-service, with a sharp view on multi-platform development. • Deep knowledge of the game dev lifecycle - particularly live ops and content pipelines - and how engineering drives consistent delivery. • Clear, inspiring communicator who can align people across roles, levels, and cultures. • Passion for building healthy, accountable, high-performing teams. • Able to lead with autonomy and clarity, always tying execution back to business goals. • Comfortable with agile practices, learning fast, and iterating.

🏖️ Benefits

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