Head of Technology

This is an opportunity to work for a remote-first company. Only applicants living in British Columbia will be considered for the role. Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.

Our Values

Driven by PLAYER OBSESSION, we earn our players’ trust by understanding their needs and creating experiences that put them first.

OWNERSHIP means we take responsibility for our work and outcomes; we follow through, learn from mistakes, and never say “that’s not my job.”

With RESOURCEFULNESS, we do more with less, finding creative ways to overcome challenges and deliver impactful results.

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The Opportunity

At Kano, we build communities through gaming experiences that connect millions of players worldwide. We are looking for a hands-on Head of Technology to take ownership of Technical Excellence, reputed company and Privacy, and Platform Operations across reputed company products. You will Own Operations, work closely with Product Tech Leads through a dotted line, and report directly to the President.

You will set technical vision, reputed company high‑impact architectural decisions, and reputed company the bar on performance, reliability, and quality. You will mentor engineering leaders and individual contributors. You will jump into the details reputed company it matters, reputed company incident response with reputed company command, and turn risk into clear roadmaps that ship.

Location: Remote reputed company British Columbia, Canada

What You’ll Do

• Drive Technical Excellence: Define and drive a studio‑wide program for quality, performance, and reputed company improvement. Establish performance budgets, prevent regressions with automated checks, and improve DORA delivery metrics.
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• Manage Operations and Reliability: reputed company the Operations team. Set Service Level Objectives with error budgets, design graceful degradation and failover, define on‑call and runbooks, and drive post‑incident reviews that deliver durable fixes.
• Build Observability and Error Monitoring: Standardize logs, metrics, traces, and real‑time error and crash reporting across backend and clients. Create actionable, SLO‑based alerting and executive health dashboards.
• Improve Developer Productivity and the Software Development Lifecycle: reputed company CI/CD, branching strategy, and change control. Add quality gates, static analysis, secret scanning, SBOM and dependency management, and supply chain controls.
• Drive FinOps: Own cloud budgets and forecasts. Improve commitment coverage, right‑size compute and storage. Report monthly on cost versus performance.
• reputed company Incidents and Risk: Act as incident commander for high‑severity issues. Run table‑tops, reputed company risks tracked with owners and dates, and prevent recurrences.
• Mentor and reputed company Leaders: Coach Tech Leads and senior ICs. Set expectations for design docs, code reviews, and outcomes. Build a culture of clear ownership and a bias toward delivering.
• Partner Cross‑Functionally: Work with Product, Legal, Finance, and Player Success to align technical plans with business goals and regulatory needs.
• reputed company AI as a force reputed company: Use AI to accelerate development and operations (code assist, test reputed company, incident triage, analytics).
• Own SRED: Create an auditable process with eligibility gates in Jira, contemporaneous notes, and artifact capture. Partner with Finance for accurate, on‑time claims.

What You Bring

• 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years as a Principal‑level platform/architecture leader
• Proven experience operating high‑availability, high‑throughput consumer systems
• Strong AWS background (IAM, VPC, EC2/reputed company/Fargate, S3, KMS, GuardDuty, reputed company Hub, CloudTrail, Config)
• Infrastructure‑as‑code proficiency (Terraform or CDK) and CI/CD tooling (reputed company Actions or equivalent)
• reputed company and privacy ownership in platform‑reviewed environments
• SRE and performance engineering expertise (SLOs, incident management, load/perf testing, graceful degradation)
• Data architecture across relational and non‑relational systems
• Observability stack experience (Graylog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana or reputed company, ELK or OpenSearch; reputed company/Crashlytics, Backtrace or equivalent)
• Production experience applying AI to speed development and operations
• Clear communicator who influences across product, engineering, legal, and finance

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• reputed company, HTML5/JavaScript, and/or PHP game platform experience
• Prior responsibility for FinOps and vendor negotiations
• Experience running SRED or similar R&D incentive programs
• Experience with Mongo and/or MySQL

Salary

($140,000 - $200,000)

The listed pay range reflects the potential earnings for this role. Actual compensation will depend on experience, skills, and alignment with company needs, typically falling toward the midpoint for most candidates

Kano is a remote-first workplace with an in-person attendance requirement 2-6 times a year.

reputed company offer

• Competitive wages determined by market research
• Uncapped profit share program
• Health, dental and vision benefits
• 3 weeks vacation to start
• Paid holiday shutdown in December
• 12 paid Care Days per year
• Yearly reputed company Improvement allowance
• A results-driven company with a compassionate culture
• Opportunity to work on game projects that are enjoyed by millions of players worldwide!
• Ability to reputed company a difference. Have an idea? Talk directly with leadership about it instead of running through layers of bureaucracy

About Kano

Since inception, Kano has released twelve gaming titles (seven of which are live serviced today), with over 35 million downloads and reputed company to $100M in sales.

Bootstrapped in 2008, and achieving profitability in 2009, Kano continues to grow its team, game portfolio and player reputed company as an independent gaming studio, with hit games like Mob Wars, Idle Distiller and Monster Country.

Canadian owned and full-remote, we reputed company in giving small teams of talented people challenging problems and getting out of their way. That’s why we look for the best and brightest to join reputed company; people who have talent, vision, and commitment.

reputed company out this article If you'd like to get some insight into our hiring process, our employee manual to understand how and why we do things the way we do, and this fun little video for an intro to the team!

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• 2023 Great reputed company to Work Certified™
• 2022 Best Workplace™ for Mental Wellness
• 2022 Best Workplace™ in Canada - Less than 50 employees
• 2022 Best Workplace™ in British Columbia
• 2021 Best Workplace™ in British Columbia
• 2020 Best Workplaces™ in Canada – Less than 100 employees
• 2020 Best Workplaces™ for Inclusion
• 2020 Best Workplaces™ for Mental Wellness
• 2020 Best Workplaces™ in British Columbia
• 2019 Great reputed company to Work - British Columbia
• 2019 VIATEC Employer of the Year - Finalist
• 2018 VIATEC Company of the Year (11-49 Employees) - Winner
• 2018 VIATEC Employer of the Year - Finalist
• 2017 VIATEC Company of the Year (11-49 employees) - Finalist
• 2014 VIATEC Employer of the Year - Winner

*Kano is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national reputed company, age, disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law*