In the past decade, competitive gaming has experienced a meteoric rise in popular culture and its economic value. Worldwide, it was estimated that 557 million people would participate in eSports by this year. 500 of those fell into the category of highly paid professionals. As of this year, global eSports gaming revenue will soar to $3.5 billion.

Our Client is a leading media and technology company in the fast-growing gaming and eSports sector. They have created the world’s most powerful competitive gaming platform that can be used inside of games, on standalone websites, or embedded within apps and community websites. It can power everything from simple tournaments to global-scale championship event series without the heavy lifting!

They are moving to the next stage of our evolution as they have divested from our old parent company and now seek to enrich our products, whilst scaling sales activity.

Are you passionate about scaling engineering teams and process to design and deliver robust, highly available software systems? Are you ready to be impactful and innovative in an exciting and growing market? Do you love gaming and/or eSports? 

We are looking for an experienced Technical/Software Engineering Manager to oversee and coordinate engineering functions across sub-teams working within the same eSports product. 

Key Responsibilities

• Applying your experience and passion for delivering high-quality solutions to own and drive the engineering function across multiple teams 
• Collect and digest product and project requirements from multiple sources in order to collate, plan, and coordinate engineering efforts 
• Liaise and collaborate with product managers, engineering team leads, and executive leadership on a regular basis 
• Monitor and measure engineering progress, quality, efficiency, and happiness, working with teams to recommend and implement improvements 
• Lead system architecture and design processes, ensuring solutions are robust, functional, maintainable, testable, extensible, etc
• Develop and refine processes to grow and scale the engineering function of the business 
• Develop a process for managing API and systems documentation to be used by internal and external developers 
• Participate in roadmapping, requirements planning, and sprint planning sessions 
• Participant in the hiring and evaluation process for future team members 
• Develop and refine onboarding processes and documentation 

 Key Qualifications

• 7-10+ years as a software engineer in PHP, Javascript, Typescript, or both with 2+ years working as an engineering manager, or 3+ years working as a team lead 
• Demonstrable experience managing software engineering projects with a team of at least 15 to 30 people 
• Experience designing, diagramming, and documenting software applications and systems 
• Experience building high availability, geographically distributed systems 
• Experience with identifying, implementing, and managing software engineering KPIs – what and how to track, and how to utilize the information to maximize team productivity and happiness 
• Experience with cache mechanics and systems (such as Cloudflare) 
• Working knowledge of Docker & Kubernetes 
• Working knowledge of test-driven development, writing tests, test tooling, coverage targets, etc. 
• Working knowledge of database systems 
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organisational skills 
• Strong capability to work cross-functionally 
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS 
• Experience with data-driven decision making 
• Experience with assimilating outside inputs such as customer requests into core product requirements 
• Familiarity with project management processes and tooling such as ClickUp, JIRA, etc. 

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience growing and scaling development teams and their processes 
• eSports experience of any kind, including non-technical 
• Hands-on experience with PHP 8.0+, Symfony 6, Vue3, Vite, and Typescript 
• Engineering experience in the gaming industry (especially Unity or Unreal Engine) 
• Engineering experience with SaaS/PaaS companies 
• Hands-on experience driving system performance at scale 
• Hands-on experience writing complex SQL queries 
• Experience with NoSQL