Senior Engineering Manager, Game Experience

Job Description:

• Directly manage a senior team of 6–8 engineers
• Coach engineers and support career development and performance management
• Hire engineers and foster a culture of high-autonomy engineering excellence
• Provide technical oversight for C++ gameplay systems
• Guide scalable and maintainable architecture, cross-platform performance, memory management, and long-term technical health
• Own the end-to-end software development life cycle for live-service game features
• Champion automated testing, feature flagging, phased rollouts, and real-time telemetry
• Lead agile team processes, including Scrum and Kanban
• Manage incoming requests and own the team roadmap
• Unblock the team, mitigate risks, and maintain stakeholder visibility
• Drive alignment across engineering, game design, product management, program management/producers, UX, QA, and hardware teams
• Establish technical strategy and project milestones

Requirements:

• 4+ years in a software engineering management role, with experience directly managing, coaching, and growing engineers in the games industry
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in game development
• Deep fluency in C++ and commercial or custom game engines
• Strong understanding of game performance, profiling, memory management, and multi-platform game architecture
• Experience operating and maintaining features within a live-service game
• Experience with production quality, operational monitoring, phased deployments, feature flag management, and support
• Ability to independently define technical strategy and team roadmaps
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and cross-team dependencies
• Ability to lead game engineering teams using modern agile practices
• Experience running sprints, mitigating delivery risks, and establishing reliable release schedules
• Bonus: Experience integrating game clients with backend services, persistence layers, and iOS, iPadOS, and Android ecosystems
• Bonus: Experience in console game development
• Bonus: Experience with AI-assisted development tools and auditing agentically generated code
• Bonus: Experience with external hardware controllers or physical inputs
• Bonus: Experience with live-game experimentation, A/B testing, and analytics tools or data pipelines such as Amplitude and Databricks
• Interest in products supporting cyclists, runners, and fitness enthusiasts
• Candidates may not use AI tools during interviews without disclosure or citation

Benefits:

• Performance bonuses
• Equity
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other perks and benefits
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Disability or special-needs accommodation available