Engineering Manager

Summary

Join 2K Publishing's Global Service Technology (GST) group as an Engineering Manager. Manage the performance of approximately 10 engineers, fostering their growth and development. Collaborate with directors and technical leads to align team strategy with business needs and establish engineering standards. Cultivate a culture of continuous learning and innovation through code reviews, feedback loops, and professional development initiatives. Maintain sharp coding skills and stay updated on evolving gaming technology. This role requires strong leadership experience, excellent programming skills (C++/C#), and extensive software/game development pipeline expertise.

Requirements

• Strong experience building, leading, and growing teams
• Excellent programming skills in C++/C#, knowledgeable in scripting languages
• Expert experience with software and game development pipelines
• Ability to communicate with customers of different technical and non-technical backgrounds to help them navigate the technology and achieve their goals
• Champion team needs and methodologies, lead improvements on behalf of the group
• Passionate video game enthusiast
• 10+ years developing and publishing console games

Responsibilities

• Manage performance for around 10 engineers, including leads, and be a strong partner with each on their growth objectives
• Collaborate with directors and above to align team growth strategy to business needs
• Collaborate with technical directors to define and drive adoption of engineering standards and what good looks like
• Establish and maintain studio processes around code reviews, positive feedback loops and professional development initiatives
• Grow other leaders for the team, both people managers and individual contributors
• Create and cultivating an environment of continuous learning and development, collaborating with other studio leads to provide practical opportunities to explore new technology
• Keep code skills sharp and stay abreast of evolving tech in the gaming industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong engine experience (Unreal, Unity, or custom engines)
• Scripting languages (Lua, Perl, Python)
• Working experience in multiplayer gaming
• Source control experience (GitHub, Perforce, SVN)
• Familiarity with AI, data manipulation, file systems, networking, streaming

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year
• Paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program
• Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
• Paid parental and compassionate leave
• Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support
• Family planning support through Maven
• Commuter benefits
• Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses
• A bonus and/or equity awards
• Eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program