PLATFORM 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 platform building: You have experience with and a passion for building backend services in support of data driven, scalable gameplay systems.
Adaptable: You are comfortable with switching gears between optimization, break/fix, and development and understand the need for rapid re-prioritization.
Quality Aware: You know and care how your team’s code affects cost, reliability and maintainability.

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 well specified deliverables.
Architect, plan and review implementations of web services and tooling written in Golang and Python.
Create detailed and highly-accessible documentation for both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Essential Traits:

6+ years of professional programming experience in systems languages (Golang, C++, Java, Rust)
6+ years working on scaled backend services and infrastructure.
2+ years as a manager or in a similar leadership role
Strong understanding of distributed systems, observability, software development lifecycle and cloud infrastructure.

Bonus Traits:

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