Senior Engineering Manager

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

Our Perks

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

• 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

10+ years of engineering experience and 5+ years in senior management; experience leading 25+ engineers, mobile development, change management, technical processes, and software engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• building teams
• leading engineers
• improving processes

Skills & Tools

C++, C#, Java, Scala, C++, Python, Go, JavaScript, iOS, Android

Job Details

• Category: Software Development
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — North America or South America or Europe or Asia or Africa or Australia or Antarctica
• Languages: English

Benefits

• Generous paid time off

About Playrix

A global mobile game developer creating games played by millions of people worldwide. — Industry: Media and Communications