Chief Technology Officer (Social Casino Gaming)
Role details
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Job description
You'll report directly to the CEO, with a strong partnership with the COO on product, live-ops, and portfolio strategy. You'll lead a team of 8 engineers and 2 QA engineers based in Vietnam, with room to grow the team on an as-needed basis. You'll own the full stack: Unity (C#) game clients, .NET backend services, live-ops infrastructure, and the data and analytics platforms that support our portfolio.
This is a high-impact role at a fast-growing studio with real revenue, an established portfolio, and meaningful equity on the table.
Working Hours & Time Zones
Our engineering and QA team in Vietnam works roughly 7:00 PM - 9:00 AM PST (their daytime hours). As CTO, you can work US hours or any window that supports the team - what matters is that you create consistent overlap, set a clear communication rhythm, and keep the team in sprint mode.
What You Will Do
- Own the technical roadmap across our 20-game Unity portfolio, including engine strategy, server architecture, and platform infrastructure
- Lead, mentor, and grow our senior engineering and QA team
- Set engineering standards: sprint cadence, code review, CI/CD, branching strategy, secrets management, and release discipline
- Drive release predictability across the portfolio - define what "ready to ship" means and enforce it
- Partner with the CEO and COO on product strategy, live-ops planning, and portfolio prioritization
- Build and scale backend infrastructure for live-ops features: events, sales, tournaments, VIP, loyalty, and collection systems
- Hire and onboard engineers to fill key gaps across client, backend, and data infrastructure
- Establish engineering metrics that surface team health and output without micromanagement
- Stay hands-on in Unity and .NET where it matters most - architecture, production debugging, and critical code review, This is a fast-paced, execution-focused role at a remote-first studio. We're looking for a hands-on technical leader who has shipped social casino games, led distributed engineering teams, and can set a high bar for the organization from day one.
Requirements
- 10+ years of mobile game engineering experience, including 3+ years in a senior technical leadership role (CTO, VP Engineering, Engineering Director, or Lead Engineer at a multi-game studio), * Direct experience shipping social casino, slots, or live-ops-heavy mobile games - strongly preferred
- Deep hands-on expertise with Unity (C#) for mobile clients: build pipelines, asset bundles, addressables, iOS/Android platform integration, and production debugging
- Strong .NET / C# backend experience, including modern .NET and microservice architecture
- Proven success leading distributed engineering teams across time zones, including offshore teams in Asia and direct working relationships with US-based executive leadership
- Strong opinions on engineering hygiene: branching strategy, code review standards, CI/CD, secrets management, observability, and on-call practice
- A clear point of view on how to measure engineering output on a remote team - commit cadence, PR throughput, ticket velocity, release predictability - without it feeling like surveillance
- Excellent written and verbal English. You will write architectural decisions, technical roadmaps, and team standards regularly.
- Self-starter who thrives without micromanagement, and who sets the same bar for the team
- Bonus: experience with slot math engines, RGS (Remote Game Server) architecture, Unity LiveOps tooling, Firebase / BigQuery / GameAnalytics, or social casino monetization systems (VIP, battle passes, coin stores), 2. Technical exercise (take-home, 4-6 hours). A focused written exercise on architecture, prioritization, and team operating model. No live coding.
Benefits & conditions
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Competitive base salary, calibrated to location and seniority
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Meaningful equity stake with a four-year vest and one-year cliff - a real co-founder-tier grant for the right person
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Performance-based bonus tied to portfolio releases, revenue milestones, and engineering KPIs
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Flexible schedule and remote-first culture
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Specific compensation discussed in the first conversation
The selection process
We respect your time. The process is structured, transparent, and runs in 3-4 weeks end to end.