Director of Engineering

7 Months ago • 10-15 Years • 2D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Playrix seeks a Director of Engineering with 10+ years of experience to lead a team building platform services and tools for mobile games. Must-haves: strong technical expertise, experience managing large engineering teams, and proven ability to build efficient production and delivery processes.
Must have:
  • Engineering Management
  • Software Development
  • Mobile Game Dev
  • Team Building
Good to have:
  • Distributed Systems
  • Game Engine Exp
  • C++, Python, Go
  • Unity/Unreal Eng
Perks:
  • Flexible Schedule
  • Health Insurance

Job Details

Director of Engineering

About the company

Playrix is ​​one of the most successful mobile game development companies 
in the world. In terms of mobile application revenue, we rank first in Europe 
and are in the top 3 worldwide. Our games have been installed 2.3 billion times (that's a third of the world's population!) and more than 30 million people around the world play them every day.

Team, about the role

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to join the Playrix Technology team to work on 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 Tech. 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 (mobile, web, or desktop) with 5+ in Senior management roles

  • Proven experience managing a team of engineers (40+ people): creating a culture of independent and self-organized teams

  • Experience in change management and building/improving efficient production, delivery and ops processes on a company level

  • Strong technical expertise and previous hands-on experience as a software engineer, preferably in large mobile or desktop products (iOS/Android native, C++/C#/Java/Scala). Nice to have: experience with complex in-house or Unity/Unreal game engines

Preferred

  • Experience working with high-load products with distributed architecture

  • Stack: C++, Python, Go, JS

  • Experience in game development

  • Experience producing tools for mobile/desktop products development

Our Perks

Flexibility at work

  • For most positions we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus). You can do your work however and wherever you like — 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.
  • 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.
Professional development and education
  • We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.
  • We offer discounts on English language courses and courses for the languages of the countries in which the company operates.
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 an internal currency you can use to buy unique gifts. We give out this currency as a gift for significant dates, and you can earn more by participating in events and company activities.

Work Format

Remote or from one of the company’s offices

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