Engineering Manager

Job Details

Type: Permanent Full-time

WHAT IMPACT CAN AN ENGINEERING MANAGER HAVE AT ESG?

At East Side Games, we all band together to deliver a world-class gameplay experience for our players around the globe. Whether that’s working with Ricky and the Gang on Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money, or any of our other current or upcoming titles, you’re committed to making memorable player experiences. Everyone has an impact here. As an Engineering Manager, you are known for leading teams of engineers towards a technical vision that you help champion.  Years of development experience has given you excellent technical principles and you now use those to elevate and nurture the people around you.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

  • Provide guidance, career development and mentorship support to your team.
  • Collaborate in a multi-disciplined team to solve problems
  • You’re also prepared to jump in as needed to do some hands-on engineering to get sh*t done!
  • Maintain the culture and discipline of Engineering that is directive in guidance, and creates a space for engineers to grow and flourish.
  • Leverage your technical skills to create roadmaps that balance technical performance and company business value.
  • Champion the technical vision for our games

*** Duties and responsibilities outlined above are representative, but not all-inclusive.

WHAT YOU NEED

  • 6+ years in programming, simulation programming, or games programming.
  • 3+ years in leading a small team of Engineers.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline. We also accept equivalent related experience!
  • Experience both developing and driving technical roadmaps.
  • Experience in project management, particularly Agile Development, for software products.
  • Proven ability to write clean, well-documented code.
  • Excellent written/verbal communication skills.

NICE TO HAVE

  • Mobile, F2P, or idle game experience is a HUGE plus!
  • Understanding of game development with the Unity Engine in C#. We don’t require you to have a games background but an interest and passion for games is essential!
  • Experience scaling Engineering teams and leading bigger teams

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WORK AT ESG?

We are East Side Games – proudly built in beautiful BC. Our mission is to create games that are easy to pick up, hard to put down, and don’t suck! We put players at the heart of our evolution, independence, and profitability. With their help, we’ve defined and become the leader in the narrative idle gaming space, writing the playbook on LiveOps in the process. Our huge IPs serve a traditionally underserved audience globally… And we’re just getting started!

Community is everything here. We put people at the core of what we do. Our games and our team have the same goal; to be inclusive and for everyone. We do what needs to be done and our team is on hand to step in, listen, and support, regardless of rank. Tackle your challenges, share your learnings, then share refreshments with the studio in our weekly Cheers Friday Announcements. Have we piqued your curiosity? Then check out our amazing Culture and Benefits! We note that our culture is not a monolith, and is ever-changing based on the folks holding space at East Side Games.

WE’RE BUILT ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

East Side Games are an equitable employer that values justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage people of marginalized backgrounds, particularly 2SLGBTQIA+QTBIPOC folks, to apply, and will acknowledge and value the strengths you bring to foster yours and the studio’s growth.

If this sounds like something you hoped for and more, and you’re enthused to build genre-defining narrative idle games, click the “Apply Here” button below. If now is not the right time for you but you know someone who would be a great match for us at East Side Games, check out our referral bonus here! Let’s build great games together.

WHAT’S NEXT?

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Due to a small (but completely awesome) recruitment team, only those candidates that qualify will be contacted.  Thanks for your interest in ESG and we wish you super success in your job search!

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