Job Posting Title

Games Engineering Manager

Pay Range$131,135-$243,538

Why Big Fish Games?

Big Fish Games is the home of some of the biggest hit mobile casual games including EverMerge, Gummy Drop!, Cooking Craze, Fairway Solitaire, and many more.

• We are curious and constantly seek improvement in all we do because that’s what our business demands

• We operate with good intentions, confidence, and humility

• We welcome diversity of background, thought, and experience

• We listen actively and value each other

• We foster a fun environment that inspires creativity 

Overview

Big Fish is looking for a driven and talented Game Software Engineer Manager to manage a small group of engineers across multiple games. You will bring your leadership, coding and technical chops, and passion for development to a team of engineers who support our hit mobile games including Gummy Drop!, Cooking Craze, and Fairway Solitaire.
This role requires a deep understanding of mobile game development, such as Unity, C#, and Xamarin, as well as the ability to understand and work within mature and complex existing codebases. Creativity, attention to detail, high coding standards, and maintaining the stability of the codebase are essential.
You will be interfacing with internal product teams as well as external development studios, so excellent communication and collaboration skills are also important for this position.

What You'll Do

• Mentor and grow a small group of engineers across multiple games, while providing technical and people management for a team of software engineers.
• Enable knowledge sharing, best practices, and technology reuse between engineering teams across the portfolio.
• Interface with external game development studio partners, understand their processes, build systems, and methodologies, and keep their engineering efforts on track.
• Accurately estimate and prioritize development efforts and resource allocations so delivery dates of new features are predictable.
• Understand the games’ technology stacks, processes, structures and codebases in order to help troubleshoot issues and integrate the SDKs and software services that Big Fish provides.

• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical parties to ensure understanding of priorities, services, and goals while providing high quality support and technical advice for the portfolio of games.
• Be flexible in order to adapt to the shifting priorities that come from working with the complexities of live game operations.
• Explore, experiment, and integrate new technologies.

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years in an engineering manager role, including defining priorities and maintaining schedules for a group of engineers.
• 5+ years professional experience in software development, including mobile development.
• Current mobile development skills strongly preferred, including native mobile development, Xamarin, Unity, and C#.
• Experience integrating complex third-party libraries and services, can work with technical and non-technical parties for testing and usage.
• Ability to develop high performance, high quality, and scalable solutions.
• Experience with server-side development and an understanding of server systems and how they interact with games.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize competing tasks. Effectively context switch to and from unplanned work.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive, and a track record of delivery.

Benefits And Beyond

Employees constantly rate Big Fish Games highly for its leadership, flexibility, well-being, diversity and inclusion through quarterly surveys.

• FLEX-Forward work environment: Customize the when, where, and how you work while delivering goals

• Health & More: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Teladoc services, employee assistance program (EAP)

• Work-Life: Wellness Friday (half-days), paid time off, parental leave, flexible work policy, studio holiday closure (Enjoy the week between Christmas and New Year!)

• Wellbeing: Wellness fairs, weekly virtual workout classes, 24/7 access to mental health and wellbeing support, free therapy and counseling sessions for you and your family

• Wealth Care: 401k matching, flexible spending account (FSA), employee discounts, employee stock purchase program

• Learn & Grow: LinkedIn Learning subscription, mentorship program, career development, individual development plans, educational assistance on job-related professional development

• Community & Fun: Company social events, employee impact groups, company swag, volunteer opportunities 

About Big Fish

Building upon our 20-year legacy as a leader in the biggest gaming categories in the world, we are innovating and developing new products within the casual space to add to our extensive portfolio. Big Fish is dedicated to delivering amazing experiences for players to connect, compete and discover play, anywhere and on any device. This means games for broad global audiences in genres that are easy to learn, and difficult to master. Be a part of the team from the start.
 

Big Fish is part of Pixel United, the free-to-play, mobile-first video games business of Aristocrat Leisure Ltd (ASX: ALL)! 

Big Fish Games is an equal opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special that’s why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

Location

Remote - USA (Job Posting)

Job family

Software

Contract Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Company

Big Fish Games