PLATFORM ENGINEERING MANAGER @ Hypixel Studios Inc.
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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:
- Experience working with Agile delivery
- Experience growing a team through hiring & performance management
- Experience managing expectations of stakeholders within large organizations
- Experience working on Games-as-a-Service (GaaS)
Benefits:
Experience Level: Senior
Work From: Remote from Anywhere
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