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.