Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead all engineering efforts within Yahoo Games, overseeing a team of full-stack platform engineers and game developers while ensuring strong technical alignment and high-quality outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage all Yahoo Games engineers, including full-stack platform engineers and game developers
- Organize engineering teams and workflows to support parallel development of games and platform initiatives
- Act as a player-coach—providing technical guidance, reviewing critical work, and contributing hands-on code when required
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for third-party game providers and internal partner teams
- Partner with Product Management, Game Design, Production, and QA to scope, plan, and deliver games and platform features
- Own engineering execution, delivery quality, and technical outcomes for Yahoo Games
- Establish and evolve best-in-class engineering practices, standards, and processes
- Ensure strong collaboration between platform and game engineering workstreams
- Provide continuous, clear feedback to engineers; set expectations and support growth
- Hire, onboard, and develop engineering talent as the team scales
- Identify and proactively resolve technical, delivery, and resourcing risks
- Communicate technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to cross-functional stakeholders
- Champion performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability across the Yahoo Games platform
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional engineering experience, with multiple years managing engineering teams
- Experience leading mixed teams of engineers with varied skill sets and seniority
- Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining web applications using TypeScript
- Experience with modern front-end and back-end frameworks (e.g., React, Node.js)
- Experience architecting systems that support third-party integrations and external partners
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development and close collaboration with Product and Design
- Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, and release management
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Postgres) and message queues (e.g., SQS)
- Proven ability to balance people leadership, technical depth, and execution
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Curiosity, bias for action, and a customer-first mindset
- Experience working on games or interactive consumer products
- Familiarity with browser-based game development and performance considerations
- Experience supporting both first-party development and third-party integrations
- Experience scaling engineering organizations within growing product teams