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Senior Engineering Manager

Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)

Senior Engineering Manager

1 Month ago • 10-15 Years • 2D Art

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java

unity

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scala

python

unreal

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

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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.