Engineering Manager

The Core Technology group is responsible for identifying common problems across the company and building solutions to those problems. We fill our team with individuals who enjoy a challenge, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and want to take ownership and responsibility for products. If you are passionate about working in the game industry and implementing cool features for our game products, come join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Empower and Mentor: Lead a team of engineers through consistent 1:1s, career mapping, and performance coaching to build a high-trust, high-output culture.
• Development Process Optimisation: Own and refine the technical development process. You will help the engineering staff optimise their daily output by establishing clear standards and workflows that reduce "toil" and cognitive load.
• Modern Engineering Practices: Champion high-quality habits, including TDD, AI-augmented development, and documentation-as-codeto ensure the team builds right the first time.
• Technical Quality and Mentorship: Cultivate a culture of rigorous, constructive feedback through code reviews and design discussions, ensuring these are vehicles for mentorship rather than just rubber-stamping.
• Drive Engineering Initiatives: Lead internal-first projects like tech debt reduction, architectural refactors, and API standardisation that keep the codebase healthy and scalable.
• Low-Level Technical Oversight: Stay "close to the metal" by participating in architecture reviews and coaching engineers to ensure the team maintains high standards of performance and code quality.

Requirements:

• Leadership Experience: 3+ years managing/leading engineering teams, with a track record of fostering psychological safety and technical growth.
• Backend Engineering Foundation: A background building backend services in modern languages (Java or Golang), with the depth to give meaningful feedback and mentorship on microservice architecture, API design, and implementation on a large-scale platform.
• The "Paved Road" Mindset: Proven ability to implement technical standards and development workflows that increase team velocity without adding bureaucratic "red tape. "
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Experience working closely with Product and Program teams to turn complex technical challenges into prioritised, well-scoped solutions that bring real value to our customers.
• Strategic Prioritisation: The ability to balance the "feature" demands of the business with the "engineering-first" needs of a healthy, modern codebase.
• Bonus Items
• Gaming Domain Interest: A passion for player-centric technology, ideally complemented by experience building online services or backend platforms for game development.
• Architecture and Scale: Hands-on experience with low-latency systems and massive-scale backend online services infrastructure.
• Cloud Platform Fluency: Hands-on experience with public cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and a working knowledge of their core services and how to apply them effectively.