Senior Engineering Manager, Game Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead a senior team comprising 6–8 engineers

• Mentor engineers while promoting their career growth and performance evaluation

• Recruit engineers and cultivate a culture centered on high-autonomy engineering excellence

• Oversee technical aspects of C++ gameplay systems

• Provide guidance on scalable and maintainable architecture, cross-platform performance, memory management, and long-term technical sustainability

• Take ownership of the complete software development life cycle for live-service game features

• Advocate for automated testing, feature flagging, phased rollouts, and real-time telemetry

• Facilitate agile team processes, including Scrum and Kanban methodologies

• Manage incoming requests and oversee the team roadmap

• Remove obstacles for the team, mitigate risks, and ensure stakeholder transparency

• Foster alignment across engineering, game design, product management, program management/producers, UX, QA, and hardware teams

• Define technical strategy and establish project milestones

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in a software engineering management position, with a proven track record of directly managing, coaching, and developing engineers in the gaming sector

• More than 6 years of practical software engineering experience in game development

• Profound expertise in C++ and familiarity with commercial or custom game engines

• Strong grasp of game performance, profiling, memory management, and multi-platform game architecture

• Experience in operating and maintaining features within a live-service game environment

• Knowledgeable in production quality, operational monitoring, phased deployments, feature flag management, and support

• Capacity to independently formulate technical strategy and team roadmaps

• Ability to navigate uncertainty and manage cross-team dependencies

• Proficient in leading game engineering teams utilizing modern agile methodologies

• Experience in conducting sprints, mitigating delivery risks, and establishing dependable release schedules

• Bonus: Experience integrating game clients with backend services, persistence layers, and iOS, iPadOS, and Android platforms

• Bonus: Background in console game development

• Bonus: Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and reviewing agentically generated code

• Bonus: Experience with external hardware controllers or physical input devices

• Bonus: Knowledge in live-game experimentation, A/B testing, and analytics tools or data pipelines such as Amplitude and Databricks

• Genuine interest in products catering to cyclists, runners, and fitness enthusiasts

• Candidates are required to refrain from using AI tools during interviews unless disclosed or cited

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonuses

• Equity opportunities

• Comprehensive medical benefits

• Financial benefits

• Additional perks and benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer

• Disability or special-needs accommodations available