Technical Engineering Leadership Role for Scalable Game Services

7 days ago


Los Angeles, California, United States thatgamecompany Full time

We are seeking an experienced Senior/Principal Engineering Manager to lead our backend game services team at thatgamecompany.

Overview

Sky has an amazing and vibrant community of socially minded players, and we are tirelessly working on solutions to deepen player interaction and create lasting friendships.

As a leader in our engineering team, you will work closely with designers, artists, and gameplay engineers to guide the features of our games, ensuring they are scalable and meet the needs of our growing player base.

Responsibilities
  • Lead our engineering team in their approach to problems, including pair programming and pull request review. Help ensure that our work is complete, reliable, and easily understood by other teams.
  • Document and task out the efforts our team will undertake, communicating our capacity, estimates, and workloads to deliver milestones on time confidently.
  • Communicate across teams and timezones to ensure that backend systems are ready for key milestones.
  • Grow our team of engineers through guidance and mentorship, providing weekly one-on-ones and formal architectural reviews for new features.
  • Find sources of risk in our software and process that can be improved, developing mitigation strategies and implementing them.
Requirements
  • 3+ years of experience managing a team of developers.
  • 5+ years of experience in backend development and deployment in a production environment.
  • Experience integrating backend services with a live game.
  • Deep understanding of scalable and highly available backend systems.
  • Knowledge of distributed system tech stacks, including scalable databases, caching strategies, distributed transactions, and dev-ops tools.
Salary

The estimated annual salary range for this position is $200,000 - $250,000 USD, with the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus.



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