Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?
At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!
What will you work on?
As the Technical Director for Piknik, our subscription bundle that gives customers access to award-winning apps from Sago Mini, Toca Boca, and more, you will chart the technical future of a platform connecting 8+ apps and growing. Working alongside the Piknik team's four specialized squads (Conversion, Retention, Integration, and Tools Scalability), you will help evolve the Piknik SDK from a shared library into a robust Platform-as-a-Product. This is a high-impact, technical, strategy-focused role where you’ll ensure our foundation is stable and ready to support our next stage of growth.
It’s important to note that this role is hybrid, requiring you to work from our downtown Toronto studio three days a week.
How will you create impact?
- Technical Architecture Roadmap: Define the long-term technical roadmap for the Piknik platform and SDK. You will drive consensus on architecture and take accountability for the critical 'one-way door' technology decisions.
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Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with Piknik leadership and the squads to align engineering goals with platform strategy.
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Empower App Teams: Act as the technical bridge to our app teams, ensuring the Piknik platform actively evolves to support their roadmaps and solve their pain points.
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Engineering Excellence: Champion a culture of technical rigor, mentoring developers, and acting as the guardian of quality.
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Modernization Technical Debt: Transform our long-term technical strategy into a concrete plan that both pays down debt and clears the path for sustainable growth.
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Team Design Scaling: Act as an "organizational engineer," designing and refining team structure to improve communication, ownership and efficient processes as we grow.
How will you fit into the team?
- Treat app teams as your customers. Obsessing over the integration experience (API design, docs, etc) and removing friction, and creating shared SDKs that teams use because they want to, not because they have to.
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Are at a stage in your career where you get more enjoyment out of strategy, architecture, and enabling others instead doing hands-on implementation work yourself.
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Know how to navigate large existing codebases. You understand that in a shared ecosystem, every change has a downstream ripple effect, and you know how to strengthen the foundation without slowing down teams.
Can weigh the purity of an architectural decision against the reality of a product deadline, finding the sweet spot between perfection and progress.
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What are your skills and experience?
- 10+ years of software development experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior technical leadership role (eg: TD or Principal / Staff Engineer).
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Expertise in architecting shared libraries and mobile SDKs, coupled with an obsession for clear API design and backward compatibility.
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The Piknik SDK is currently 100% Unity, so deep Unity / C# expertise is essential. As we expand, we need a TD with native mobile experience (iOS/Swift and Android/Kotlin) to help us architect a hybrid strategy that can support Unity and native mobile.
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Familiarity with mobile ecosystems (Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon, etc), specifically around In-App Purchases (IAP) and subscriptions.
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A history of elevating technical quality by mentoring engineers to become better decision-makers, leading effective design and code reviews, and creating clear architectural standards.
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Directly drove the architecture and execution of multiple large-scale technical initiatives, taking hands-on ownership from idea to launch.
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You speak both ‘tech’ and 'business’, easily translating complex technical topics into something non-tech stakeholders can understand. You can just as easily switch directions, turning business needs into technical goals your team can rally behind.
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The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Toronto is $150,000 to $180,000 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.
This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.
What you can expect from us:
Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.
What’s it like to work here?
Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.
Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.
Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.
