Manager, Software Engineering
Job Summary
Job Description
- 6+ years software development experience
- 2+ years people management experience
- Proven leadership & agile experience
- Java/Kotlin, Microservices experience
- Strong communication & collaboration skills
- React, React Native experience
11 skills required
Job Details
Why PlayStation?
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.
PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.
The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.
We are seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to develop and guide a team of Engineers working on delivering in-house applications. This will involve creating seamless and secure solutions and ensuring delivery of exceptional user experiences. You will guide a team that works across the stack contributing to both front-end and back-end architecture and implementation, creating a productive engineering environment and levelling up your team and our capabilities. You will collaborate with business users, product managers, and other technical teams across the globe as required.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading, mentoring, and empowering a growing team of hardworking engineers to deliver against strategic business outcomes
- Establishing a strong and inclusive engineering culture within our office
- Assist in the delivery of multiple projects across multiple platforms. Helping teams estimate, plan, and slice projects to frequently deliver value to production.
- Collaborate across business units and product teams spread over multiple timezones
- Execute against the team's vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Act as a change agent, initiating appropriate changes to support continuous business improvement
- Comfort with proactively and independently working towards results in large, distributed team environments.
What we're looking for:
- Overall experience of at least 6 years in the software development industry
- At least 2 years of people management experience, with experience managing multiple teams or one larger team
- Able to manage, mentor, and empower teams, including other people managers
- Proven leadership skills and a passion for building, maintaining, and deploying both internal business applications and highly available services
- Strong communication, cross-group collaboration, and interpersonal skills. The ability to flex communication style to work with business and non-technical users in addition to engineers
- Ability to balance priorities across multiple projects.
- Ability to advise and influence technical discussions and decisions.
- Experience with agile development practices emphasising continuous improvement.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar technologies, and delivering microservices
- Prior experience with one or more of the following technologies or areas is a plus: React, React Native
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
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About The Company
Want to take your career to the next level? Search open job vacancies at any of the Sony Interactive sites by visiting playstation.com/careers/
Sony Interactive Entertainment pushes the boundaries of entertainment and innovation, starting from the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994. Today, we continue to deliver innovative and thrilling experiences to a global audience through our PlayStation line of products and services that include generation-defining hardware, pioneering network services, and award-winning games. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with global functions in California, London, and Tokyo, and game development studios around the world as part of PlayStation Studios, we believe that the power of play is borderless. Sony Interactive Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.
For more information about our company, please visit SonyInteractive.com. For more information about PlayStation products, please visit PlayStation.com.
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