Engineering Manager

1 Month ago • All levels • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Engineering Manager at VGW, you will lead a team of engineers in Perth to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll guide architectural decisions, ensure engineering excellence, and foster team growth. Responsibilities include hands-on technical leadership, people management, driving innovation, and aligning engineering execution with product and business goals. The team utilizes technologies such as AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Kotlin, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Snowflake. The role requires expertise in JVM-based development, cloud-native architectures, and containerization, along with a passion for mentoring and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Must have:
  • Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams
  • Expertise in building scalable and distributed systems
  • Strong technical leadership and architectural oversight
  • Align engineering execution with business goals
  • Mentor engineers and cultivate a team environment
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation, perks, and benefits
  • Flexibility for work-life balance
  • Opportunities for learning and career advancement
  • Fun and inclusive workplace culture

Job Details

Engineering Manager

VGW is an interactive entertainment company, harnessing technology and creativity to deliver world-class, free-to-play games. 

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Technology team in Perth, and are currently looking for an Engineering Manager to join the team. 

As an Engineering Manager at VGW, you will lead a team of engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions while fostering a strong technical culture. You’ll be hands-on in guiding architectural decisions, ensuring engineering excellence, and shaping the team’s growth, balancing technical leadership with people management to drive innovation and impact.

What you should know about our Engineering team:

  • We make room to do things the right way
  • You own your projects: you build it, you ship it, you run it
  • We were born in the cloud: practices and principles like CI/CD, IaC, O11y and CyberSec are part of what we do

When it comes to Learning and Development:

  • Learning is part of our fabric. We have a world-class Engineering Learning and Development program and we are passionate about career development. 
  • Thought Leaders regularly give tailored talks and workshops for our team.
  • We are proactive in the community attending many local and international conferences.
  • We have both a technical and management track for career progression and promotions.
  • We have a library of books and videos with good content and encourage staying on top of new practices. 

In terms of our tech stack, we host our docker containerised apps on AWS, sometimes in ECS but moving to EKS Kubernetes. In the containers, we run Kotlin on the JVM. TypeScript runs our client side where it’s mostly React. Our databases are PostgreSQL and DynamoDB with Snowflake as our Data warehouse.

What you will bring to the role:

  • Proven experience leading and growing high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Deep expertise in building scalable and distributed systems, with a strong foundation in JVM-based development, cloud-native architectures, infrastructure as code, and containerisation.
  • A strong technical leadership mindset, balancing hands-on involvement with architectural oversight to drive innovation while maintaining system reliability and performance.
  • A track record of aligning engineering execution with product and business goals, ensuring technical solutions are scalable, maintainable, and deliver meaningful value.
  • Passion for mentoring engineers, developing career pathways, and cultivating a team environment that thrives on ownership, learning, and technical excellence.
  • A strategic problem-solving approach, with the ability to anticipate challenges, drive operational efficiency, and ensure seamless delivery of high-quality software solutions.

About VGW

VGW is an interactive entertainment company, harnessing technology and creativity to deliver world-class, free-to-play games.

With high-quality, acclaimed brands including Chumba Casino, Global Poker and LuckyLand Slots, we entertain and delight over one million players in North America.

As pioneers in sweepstakes promotions for online social games, we also offer our players the opportunity to redeem incredible prizes.

At VGW, one of our core values is "our players come first". This means always striving to deliver a safe, responsible and positive player experience.

Why VGW?

At VGW, we’re more than just a team. We’re a diverse and inclusive group of individuals, each playing a vital role in our success.

Our core values are clear and strong; we win together, do what’s right, put our players first and are powered by passion.

We believe in our people and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcome, inspired, and supported. We recognise that life is more than just work - that’s why we’re all about flexibility so you can strike a healthy balance between your personal life and career. We’re also here to champion your growth in your current role and future aspirations, providing opportunities for learning and career advancement. And to top it off, we back this all up with competitive compensation, perks and benefits.  

But it’s not all business. We inject fun into the workplace, celebrate together and create lasting memories, from a mix of in-person and online events, to social gatherings and much more.

It’s our combined skills, ideas and visions that drive us forward. Join us on this exciting journey, and together, we’ll achieve remarkable things. 

If you want to join a team that does things differently, apply today - we look forward to seeing what you can bring to our team.

Find out more at www.vgw.co

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About The Company

Pioneering the online social gaming experience. 


We are a fast-growing technology company and creator of market-leading online social games.  


Our business is innovative and is setting new standards in the online social games market. Our success comes from hiring amazing people who are challenging the status quo by testing, pioneering and pushing the boundaries. 


For over a decade, VGW has developed popular games that provide our many players entertainment with a thrill. 


We understand the importance of providing games and content that capture our customers’ imagination while building a reputation of trust and security, working alongside the biggest marketing and payment partners across the globe. 


VGW exists to provide our players with the ultimate entertainment experience.


To ensure we maintain a safe and respectful online community, we have developed house rules for our LinkedIn page: https://www.vgw.co/social-media-policy/

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