Senior Engineering Manager
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join the Playrix Technology team to work on the Playrix game engine, platform services, and tools for the company's games. We value a product-oriented approach and the sharing of best practices within teams, and we pay great attention to the quality and reliability of our solutions.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the company
Playrix is one of the most successful mobile game development companies, ranking among the top 3 mobile game developers in the world. Our games have been installed 2.3 billion times (one-third of the world’s population), and more than 30 million people play them every day!
Team, about the role
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join the Playrix Technology team to work on the Playrix game engine, platform services, and tools for the company's games. We value a product-oriented approach and the sharing of best practices within teams, and we pay great attention to the quality and reliability of our solutions.
Tasks
Build a strong team to ensure high-performance and growth: hiring, coaching and mentoring, leading engineers
Partner with Technical Producers to build and execute the tech product roadmap
Ensure engineering excellence: analyze the tech, tools, solution design and production/ops practices efficiency and quality, lead the initiatives to improve it
Requirements
- Action and self-starter mindset, proactive problem solver
- Bar raiser: you are never satisfied with the status quo and challenge yourself, your teams, and your peers
- 10+ years hands-on experience in engineering with 5+ in Senior management roles
- Hands-on experience in mobile development or experience managing mobile development teams
- Proven experience managing a team of engineers (25+ people, including mobile development teams): creating a culture of independent and self-organized teams
- Experience in change management and building/improving efficient production, delivery and ops processes on a departmental level
- Strong technical expertise and previous hands-on experience as a software engineer, preferably in large mobile products (iOS/Android native, C++/C#/Java/Scala). Nice to have: experience in game development.
Preferred
Experience working with high-load products with distributed architecture
Stack: C++, Python, Go, JS
Experience producing tools for mobile/desktop products development
Understanding of game engine architecture
Flexibility at work
For most positions we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world. We only evaluate your results.
Caring for health and well-being
We provide voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist, including individual, family, and child consultations.
We offer fully paid vacation days and sick leave. In certain circumstances, you can request additional days off.
We support leading a healthy lifestyle and reimburse the cost of gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions, as well as massages, spa and sauna visits, and recovery treatments.
Professional development and education
We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.
We cover foreign language courses.
Employees who combine work with formal education are entitled to five additional paid days off per year for exams, thesis or dissertation defence, and other mandatory academic activities.
Events and merch
We regularly hold offline events like team meetings, big corporate parties, and informal office parties.
We also regularly organize fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges.
We have a merch store with its own internal currency that you can use to buy unique gifts, such as a new game console or a padel racket.
Pet care
Pet care
We reimburse a portion of pet-related expenses, including veterinary services and other eligible costs.
Work Format
Remote or from one of the company’s offices
About Playrix
A mobile-game developer and publisher creating free-to-play games.
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