Senior Engineering Manager

5 Months ago • 10-15 Years • 2D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Playrix seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team working on their game engine, platform services, and tools. Must have 10+ years of engineering experience, 5+ in senior management, and proven experience managing a team of engineers. Strong technical expertise and experience with large mobile or desktop products are required.
Must have:
  • Engineering Experience
  • Senior Management
  • Team Management
  • Technical Expertise
Good to have:
  • Game Development
  • Unity/Unreal Engine
  • Distributed Architecture
  • C++, Python, Go, JS
Perks:
  • Flexible Schedule
  • Health Insurance

Job Details

Senior Engineering Manager

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 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 (mobile, web, or desktop) with 5+ in Senior management roles

  • Proven experience managing a team of engineers (10-30 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 departmental 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 engine.

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

  • 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 (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

Similar Jobs

ByteDance - Tech Lead Software Engineer- Programming Language (San Jose, CA)

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Amanotes - Unity Developer (LiveOps Team)

Amanotes

Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Epic Games - Senior Backend Engineer

Epic Games

Bellevue, Washington, United States (On-Site)
1 Week ago
Meta - Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Meta

San Francisco, California, United States (Remote)
4 Months ago
Luxoft - Android HMI Architect

Luxoft

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Sperasoft - 2D Artist (Mobile)

Sperasoft

Vojvodina, Serbia (On-Site)
5 Days ago
Appirits - 2D Illustrator

Appirits

Tokyo, Japan (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Aristocrat Gaming - Artist II

Aristocrat Gaming

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Playrix - Director of Engineering

Playrix

Georgia (Remote)
5 Months ago
Inwave - 2D Artist

Inwave

(On-Site)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Sporty Group - Backend Engineer

Sporty Group

(Remote)
8 Months ago
The Walt Disney Company - Retail ERP Solution Architect

The Walt Disney Company

Île-de-France, France (On-Site)
6 Days ago
Velotio Technologies - AI Platform Engineer (Python OR Java)

Velotio Technologies

Maharashtra, India (Remote)
6 Days ago
The Walt Disney Company - Lead Machine Learning Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

Washington, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Nagarro - Staff Engineer, Java Fullstack

Nagarro

Mexico (Remote)
5 Months ago
1047 Games - Senior Game Platform Engineer

1047 Games

(Remote)
1 Month ago
Crunchyroll - Staff Software Engineer, Account Services

Crunchyroll

San Francisco, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Weeks ago
Activision - Expert Engineer, Accounts and Authentication

Activision

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid)
5 Months ago
Netflix - Netflix Software Engineer Intern

Netflix

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
1 Month ago
CloudHire - Database Architect

CloudHire

Gurugram, Haryana, India (Remote)
6 Days ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan

Social Discovery Group - Head of Product (Premium products)

Social Discovery Group

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
4 Months ago
Playrix - Development Director

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
5 Months ago
Playrix - Senior QA Engineer (Server Team)

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
5 Months ago
Playrix - Creatives Producer

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
5 Months ago
G5 Games - Monitoring Engineer

G5 Games

Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan (Remote)
1 Week ago
Playrix - Lead Technical Designer

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
5 Months ago
PwC - Senior Associate to Transfer Pricing

PwC

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Playrix - Senior/Principal 2D Artist (Match-3)

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
5 Months ago
G5 Games - Lead Game Creative 2D Artist (HOG project)

G5 Games

Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan (Remote)
1 Month ago
G5 Games - Game Data Analyst

G5 Games

Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan (Remote)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

2D Art Jobs

Playrix - Senior Technical Designer

Playrix

Serbia (Remote)
5 Months ago
Playrix - Location Game Designer

Playrix

Montenegro (Remote)
5 Months ago
Playrix - Technical Director (Game Project)

Playrix

Portugal (Remote)
5 Months ago
Playrix - Middle C++ Software Engineer (Gameplay)

Playrix

Armenia (Remote)
5 Months ago
Playrix - Game Director

Playrix

Ireland (Remote)
5 Months ago
Outplay - Senior Artist

Outplay

Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
4 Weeks ago
Kwalee - Game Artist

Kwalee

Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)
4 Days ago
Inwave - 2D Artist

Inwave

(On-Site)
1 Month ago
Supercell - Senior Game Artist, London

Supercell

London, England, United Kingdom (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Nordcurrent - Lead 2D Artist

Nordcurrent

Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania (On-Site)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Explore gaming industy jobs in one of the leading Game Studios.

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Playrix

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug