Fortis Games
Gaming
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
VP, Game Engineering
October 1
Fortis Games
Gaming
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
đź“‹ Description
• Lead the craft of engineering across mobile-first, free-to-play live service games. • Set the bar for engineering standards and grow strong technical leadership. • Ensure game teams have what they need to build and run titles quickly. • Collaborate with Technical Directors across studios and connect people and tools with goals. • Maintain alignment with central tech groups and shared systems for faster delivery. • Mentor Technical Directors, helping them lead with confidence. • Push for efficient workflows from project setup to live service. • Own and evolve shared client-side tech for reliability and ease of use. • Set high standards for code quality, performance, and observability. • Partner with various functions to make engineering a proactive partner. • Lead hiring and retention for game engineering. • Balance resourcing across game teams as needs shift. • Ensure engineering visibility 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
• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development • Bonuses
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