CTO - Game Development
Skills
C#Mobile ApplicationsConsumerEdtechEngineeringLarge Language ModelsOps
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 8+ years in engineering with senior lead or CTO experience in games or gamified consumer products
- Personally shipped and scaled a live-service or free-to-play product to 100K+ users
- Native fluency in live-ops retention loops product economy A/B testing and analytics
- Integrated AI or LLM features into a real product responsibly with guardrails evals and retrieval
- Treat sensitive user data as a first-class design constraint
- Can communicate effectively with non-technical founders investors and junior engineers
- Founder mindset with ownership focus
- Experience hiring and leading an in-house engineering team
Nice to have
- startup CTO experience
- technical co-founder
- kids background
- health background
- edtech background
- external studio management
Day to day
- Lead the company’s technical direction as the founding engineering leader working directly with the Founder & CEO
- Own the game client platform data architecture AI layer and the engineering team built around it
- Build a live-service Unity C# game and companion mobile apps with safety-first design for children
- Create and oversee a parent-facing retrieval-grounded AI assistant with strong guardrails
- Represent engineering in investor diligence and manage external studios during the bridge phase
Hiring process
- Message me directly
- Send a short note on why this mission speaks to you