Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• Lead and Innovate: Own the end-to-end player journey. Lead and develop the teams responsible for Immutable Play, guiding them to experiment and ship high-impact features.
• Ensure Delivery Excellence: Establish and enforce best practices for delivery velocity, guaranteeing the high-quality execution of the product roadmap.
• Cultivate High Performance: Foster a culture of high performance, autonomy, and accountability, enabling the team to iterate and learn quickly.
• Drive Technical Strategy: Define the technical evolution of our platform, including onboarding and developing smart matchmaking systems to boost player acquisition and activation. Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data counterparts to define strategy and deliver outstanding user outcomes.
• Mentor and Grow Talent: Coach and grow engineers through consistent feedback, mentorship, and career development planning.
• Passionate about AI technology with a strong interest in exploring AI-powered development tools and understanding AI product design principles
• Demonstrated interest in AI products and emerging technologies

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience leading high-performing software engineering teams, including a deep commitment to coaching, career development, and conducting performance reviews.
• A strong full-stack engineer with up-to-date, hands-on experience in system design build and scaling products, proficient in technologies such as React, TypeScript, Go.
• Strong use of AI tools to assist development, strong understanding AI design principles and application
• Proactive LLM usage, clear articulation of where AI meaningfully improves workflows and product. Not surface-level.
• A builder's mindset with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, consumer-facing products. Must have a customer-centric approach and a passion for solving real user problems, ideally within a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment.
• Led zero-to-one product development in a founding or early startup environment
• Previous experience building products that engage audiences, intelligent marketing campaigns, automated workflows and scalable customer centric products with AI features.
• Excellent communication skills and the proven ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations.

Tech Stack

• React
• TypeScript
• Go

Benefits

• We commit to paying globally competitive base salaries and contributions to a long-term fund
• Sharing our products' success through Employee Stock Options ESOP
• Our flexible working model blends the best of both worlds: Sydney-based employees enjoy hybrid 3 days a week in our vibrant head office, while remote team members can work from home or utilise access to global office hubs via a WeWork All-Access pass
• Lunch is ordered fresh every day in our friendly office in Sydney CBD
• Quarterly End of Cycle Celebration Awards and Dinner
• USD $500 WFH allowance to set up your home office
• USD $600 per annum to put toward your internet and phone usage.
• USD $75 per quarter for remote employees to celebrate with local team members
• We also support our US Employees with Medical and 401K Insurance
• Our Australian Employees can avail of Novated Leasing, save money by paying for your car using pre & post-tax dollars
• We offer up to USD $1,350 per annum for any classes, courses or events to support your growth and development
• Enjoy access to free online courses via Udemy
• Enjoy USD $800 per year to put toward your health and wellbeing
• Get 24/7 access to unlimited counselling for you and your family when you need it through our EAP Service
• Monthly subsidy and discounted rate with ClassPass, including a 1-year free membership to Breethe
• New parents receive 12 weeks of paid leave in our gender-neutral offer. The birthing parent also gets an additional 6 weeks of leave for rest and recovery leading up to and after birth. We also offer Miscarriage Leave and extra leave for IVF treatments
• Enjoy 2 additional paid annual leave days at the end of the year
• Birthday you get a paid day off