Engineering Manager for Games

What you’ll do:

• own the technical delivery of game teams from idea to live operations:
• write and review production code regularly
• design and evolve game systems
• step into complex technical problems when they matter
• ensure games are stable, performant, and shippable
• You’ll run the full lifecycle: discovery → implementation → QA → release → live ops. You’ll work closely with engineers, QA, product, and art - not as a coordinator, but as a technical decision-maker.
• This is not a people-heavy management role. Leadership comes from technical ownership and example.

How hands-on is this? Very.

• commit code to production
• review architecture and PRs
• debug live issues
• pair with engineers on hard problems

What you bring

• strong hands-on engineering background
• experience owning production systems
• comfort with live releases and real users
• technical credibility with senior engineers
• Strong plus
• Games / iGaming / real-time products
• Live Ops or high-availability systems

Tech context

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Node.js
• Game or frontend-facing systems (Pixi.js / Phaser.js / Canvas / WebGL)

This is not for you if

• You don’t code anymore
• You want a people-management-only role
• You prefer coordination over engineering

This is for you if

You want to lead teams through technical strength, ship real products, and stay close to the code while having more impact.