ENGINE ENGINEERING MANAGER @ Hypixel Studios Inc.

Job Information

Job Description:

Who you are:

Attentive Leader: Passionate about people management. Set career growth expectations for individuals on your team and mentor them to meet those expectations, including writing and delivering reviews.
A Force Multiplier: You understand how to empower engineers on your team to learn, grow, and scale.
Calm under pressure: You exude calm in even the toughest of situations. When things get spicy, you work as a cooler to help the team reach a solution.
Immersed in Engine Games: You have experience with and a passion for creating low-level, frameworks that can be used to build data driven, scalable, multiplayer gameplay systems.
Adaptable: You are comfortable with switching gears between optimization, break/fix, and development and understand the need for rapid re-prioritization.
Performance Aware: You know and care how your team’s code affects performance, frame rate, and memory usage

Some of your role:

Manage a team of 3-6 engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, direction-setting, and hands-on engineering
Performance management including writing and delivering reviews
Work closely with Product Owners and Project Managers to prioritize, break down, and select work for your team
Work closely with gameplay and systems engineers and transform their feature requests into flexible systems
Architect, plan and review implementations of low level engine systems written in high quality C++
Create detailed and highly-accessible documentation for both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Essential Traits:

6+ years of professional programming experience in C++
4+ years working in a game engine (commercial or proprietary)
2+ years as a manager or in a similar leadership role
Strong understanding of engine specific architecture and low level engineering concerns such as performance, frame rate and memory usage

Bonus Traits:

Benefits:
Experience Level: Senior
Work From: Remote from Anywhere