Technical Manager

Position Summary

Idealogical Group is seeking a Technical Director to lead our software development team and own technical delivery across our product portfolio. Reporting to the CTO, the Technical Director is responsible for engineering leadership, system architecture, development process, and code quality across projects spanning XR/MR applications, real-time motion capture pipelines, embedded systems, and a multi-tenant cloud SaaS platform.

This is a hands-on leadership position. The successful candidate will lead people and set direction while remaining directly engaged in architecture, technical review, and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software developers

Manage performance, career development, and technical growth of direct reports

Participate in hiring, onboarding, and resource planning

Foster engineering excellence with an emphasis on computer science fundamentals, design patterns, and language-agnostic problem solving

Architecture & Technical Direction

Steward and suggest system architecture across projects; define technical standards and design patterns

Lead technical design reviews and architectural decision-making

Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and appropriately documented

Evaluate build-vs-buy and technology selection decisions with clear trade-off analysis

Quality & Delivery

Establish and enforce code review standards; personally conduct reviews of critical work

Own engineering accountability for correctness, security, and performance of all shipped code, including AI-assisted output

Manage delivery across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements through deployment and support

Report delivery status, risk, and estimates to executive leadership

Process & Innovation

Own and continuously improve the team's development methodology and tooling

Lead the evaluation and integration of AI-assisted and agentic development tools into the SDLC

Monitor advancements in ML/LLM capabilities and efficiencies; assess business and engineering impact

Drive adoption of process changes with measurable outcomes for consistency, quality, and team scalability

Stakeholder Engagement

Translate technical direction into business terms for the executive team

Support client-facing technical discussions, proposals, and solution design as required

Qualifications

Required

8+ years of progressive software development experience, including 2+ years leading developers (formal management or technical lead capacity)

Exceptional computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and system design, independent of any single language or framework

Proven experience owning architecture for production systems

Deep working knowledge of the full SDLC and modern DevOps practices

Working knowledge of LLMs and machine learning approaches, including their architectures, capabilities, and limitations

Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into professional engineering workflows

Excellent code review and technical validation skills

Strong written and verbal communication, including experience presenting to senior leadership

Assets

Unity/C# and XR/VR/MR development experience

Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Build) and multi-tenant SaaS architecture

Information retrieval systems (vector search, hybrid retrieval) or local model deployment

Embedded systems exposure (microcontrollers, sensor integration)

Experience in regulated or compliance-driven client environments