Senior Director, Engineering

Second Dinner, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Second Dinner (US Remote)

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead and manage a 20-person engineering team and 6-person QA team to deliver high-quality, scalable live-service game experiences for MARVEL SNAP.
• Serve as the technical visionholder for MARVEL SNAP, guiding the transition from short-term fixes to sustainable, long-term technical solutions.
• Own the end-to-end delivery pipeline—from planning and development to production and deployment—removing friction to ensure timely, high-quality feature releases.
• Champion pragmatic engineering decisions by balancing speed and quality, knowing when to prioritize rapid iteration versus robust architecture.
• Collaborate with Production to evaluate, onboard, integrate, and hold external development partners (xDev) accountable for quality and delivery standards.
• Define and enforce scalable quality and deployment standards across internal teams and external partners, empowering others to uphold them consistently.
• Build and maintain a leadership culture where engineers are motivated, supported, and grow; conduct meaningful 1:1s, track individual progress, and create actionable career development plans.
• Actively participate in hiring processes, including interviewing and onboarding, and remain technically engaged by contributing to code when needed.
• Ensure today’s engineering decisions enable tomorrow’s innovation by prioritizing scalable systems, maintainable code, and future-proof architecture.
• Maintain close alignment with the GM of MARVEL SNAP to align engineering strategy with business goals and player experience objectives.
• Drive adoption of best-in-class tools and workflows that simplify game development and push the boundaries of what’s possible in live-service game engineering.
• Stay hands-on with core technologies including Unity, AWS, Git, and .NET, providing technical guidance while scaling leadership responsibilities.
• Iterate on engineering processes to improve team efficiency, reduce technical debt, and enhance cross-team collaboration.
• Foster a remote-first culture with core collaboration hours between 10 AM and 4 PM PT, ensuring alignment across distributed teams.
• Participate in company-wide events, including in-person all-hands gatherings and virtual team activities.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience shipping and operating a live-service game
• Track record of technical management of external development partners or vendors
• Experience leading an engineering team through the ups and downs of long-term live services games
• Strong familiarity with Unity, AWS, Git, and .NET
• Comfortable both setting strategic direction and rolling up your sleeves
• Add value at every level: IC engineers, external partners, production, and leadership

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans
• 401(k) contribution with no waiting period
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period
• Home office improvement bonus
• Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year
• Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT

Skills & Technologies

AWS

Git

Senior

Remote

$270k-300k

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About Second Dinner, Inc.

Second Dinner is an independent game studio founded in 2018 by ex-Blizzard veterans, headquartered in Irvine, California. The company focuses on mobile-first titles, blending collectible-card mechanics with accessible gameplay. Its debut release, Marvel Snap, launched globally in 2022 and quickly amassed tens of millions of downloads. Second Dinner operates a remote-friendly development culture and maintains a lean team of experienced designers, artists, and engineers dedicated to ongoing live-service support and future original projects.

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