Tripledot Studios

Director of Software Engineering

Tripledot Studios

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptNode.jsUnity

About the role

  • Lead and mentor the Wordscapes Solitaire engineering team to achieve consistent, high-quality feature delivery and technical excellence.
  • Drive technology initiatives and establish best practices that align/support business goals and product roadmap(s), filling technical gaps as needed.
  • Define team standards, technical direction, tools, and engineering best practices to increase team efficiency, velocity, and stability throughout each release.
  • Partner with the Product and Design to define a technical and feature roadmap for the project.
  • Enhance and maintain asset-pipeline and content-delivery systems that support ongoing LiveOps and limited-time events.
  • Expand localization, data, and configuration frameworks for global operations.
  • Improve client–server communication, save-data management, and game-startup performance.
  • Evolve tools, automation, and processes to streamline build and release workflows.
  • Ensure smooth and stable release and deployment processes, reducing risk while increasing velocity.
  • Collaborate with Platform Tech (our central tech team) and other internal teams to share learnings, influence shared-tech priorities, and adopt common best practices.
  • Foster a healthy engineering culture centered on accountability, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.
  • Represent Engineering in cross-functional planning and ensure clarity around trade-offs, risks, and technical opportunities.

Requirements

  • 8 + years of professional software-engineering experience, including 3 + years in a technical-lead or management capacity.
  • Proven track record of shipping and maintaining large-scale live mobile games built with Unity and C#.
  • Exposure to localization, data-driven configuration, or A/B testing frameworks for live mobile games.
  • Deep understanding of Unity architecture and best practices for performance optimization, asset management, UI systems, and build pipelines.
  • Strong grasp of software-design principles—separation of concerns, event-driven systems, maintainability, extensibility, and testability.
  • Experience balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical strategy and communicating trade-offs effectively.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical disciplines.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and grow engineers, creating an environment of trust, ownership, and excellence.
  • Embodies PeopleFun’s values of trust, humility, and team-focused results.
  • Nice to Have: Experience collaborating with shared-technology or platform teams.
  • Familiarity with backend technologies (e.g., Nakama, Node.js, or Go) and cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure).
  • Experience improving or automating CI/CD pipelines and LiveOps delivery processes.
Benefits
  • Time Off: Flexible Discretionary Time Off policy in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year.
  • Remote-First Working: If you are located in Dallas, you’re welcome to work in the PeopleFun office, however, there’s no expectation to.
  • Financial: Generous 401k match, discretionary bonuses, and competitive salaries.
  • Health & Wellness: Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
  • Employee Assistance Program: Anytime you need it, tap into confidential, caring support with our Employee Assistance Program, always here to lend an ear and a helping hand.
  • Continuous Professional Development: Propel your career with continuous opportunities for professional development.
  • Family-Friendly Culture: A generous parental leave policy and a supportive, family-friendly culture.
  • Regular company events: Yearly on-site events that celebrate our achievements and our team spirit.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
C#Unitylocalization frameworksdata-driven configurationA/B testing frameworkssoftware design principlesperformance optimizationasset managementUI systemsCI/CD pipelines
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationaccountabilityknowledge-sharingcontinuous improvementtrusthumilityteam-focused results