Senior Engineering Manager

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Nice to have

• 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