Fortis Games is looking for a VP, Game Engineering to lead the engineering discipline across our mobile-first portfolio of free-to-play live service games. This role is critical to our continued scale and success, ensuring our teams are equipped to deliver high-quality titles consistently and sustainably.

What You'll Do

Build and evolve the game engineering organization to meet portfolio needs with clear structure, strong leadership, and effective cross-team collaboration.
Mentor and grow Technical Directors across all game teams, enabling autonomous, high-performing technical leadership.
Champion engineering workflows that prioritize speed and ease of use, ensuring teams can move fast and focus on delivering great games.
Own and evolve client-side shared technology, ensuring common frameworks, Unity integrations, and game-side tools accelerate delivery across teams.
Establish and uphold best practices for code quality, performance optimization, observability, and maintainable technical documentation.
Partner across disciplines (Product, Design, Art, Data, QA, Publishing) to ensure engineering is a proactive and solutions-oriented partner throughout the game lifecycle.
Lead talent strategy for game engineering, recruiting, hiring, and retaining exceptional talent while serving as a bar-raiser for technical and leadership excellence.
Manage resource allocation across game teams, making data-informed decisions to balance priorities and respond to changing portfolio needs.
Advocate for engineering in executive forums, ensuring the discipline has visibility, support, and alignment with company-wide priorities.

What We're Looking For

Proven track record as a VP or senior engineering leader within a games company, leading multi-team organizations delivering live or service-based titles.
Experience managing and developing Technical Directors, and building technical leadership capacity across distributed, multi-location teams.
Demonstrated ability to design organizations, optimize workflows, and integrate new technologies (including AI) to accelerate development.
Strong technical credibility with deep experience in Unity and games as a service, and a forward-looking perspective on multi-platform development.
Deep understanding of the game development lifecycle, including live operations and content update pipelines, and how engineering enables repeatable, high-quality delivery.
Skilled communicator able to inspire, align, and influence across disciplines, seniority levels, and cultures.
Passion for building healthy, high-performing teams grounded in accountability, craft excellence, and shared purpose.
Ability to lead with autonomy, clarity, and focus, aligning engineering execution tightly with business goals.
Expertise in agile practices and hypothesis-driven development, with the ability to foster a culture of learning and iteration.

Technical Stack

Unity

Team & Environment

Reporting into the executive team, you will manage and mentor Technical Directors across our global studio. You will partner closely with central technology teams (Platform, Infrastructure, Data, QA).

Work Mode

This is a global role.

Fortis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.