Engineering Manager

Summary

Join ArenaNet as an experienced engineering manager and cultivate a thriving team environment where each engineer feels supported and empowered. Your primary focus will be on empathetic listening, coaching, and mentoring your team members to foster growth and success. Building and maintaining a culture of safety, fun, and trust is paramount. You will actively participate in hiring decisions, ensuring new team members enhance the existing dynamics and expertise. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape the studio's culture and contribute to the creation of exceptional games. Facilitate the development of meaningful production practices and act as a bridge between engineering and non-technical colleagues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 7 years of experience as a software engineer or supporting software engineering teams
• 3 years of management experience
• Experience working with C++, C#, and Python
• Ability to manage a team with empathy and authenticity
• Able to build trust and inspire a team to overcome challenges
• Expertise in full software development life cycle management, particularly continuous delivery of services
• Expertise in supporting agile development and operating production services

Responsibilities

• Listen to each member of your team with extreme empathy
• Listen to their concerns, frustrations, suggestions, ideas, goals, stories, and anything else they need to discuss or wish to share
• Knowing what will make each person’s life at work better, you will coach them to grow, help them work through issues, provide clarity on the team’s direction, encourage them to share what they’ve learned, and learn from others
• You will be there for them for whatever they may need to succeed
• Earning the team’s trust will be your first and top priority, and you will do all that you can to keep that trust once earned
• You understand that trust is a priceless treasure that is gained by your actions in support of the team and cannot be assigned through any sort of authority your position may hold
• With this trust you will work with your team to build and maintain a culture of safety and fun for all people to work, create, be themselves, and have the time of their lives doing it
• Understanding that hiring decisions are the most important decisions a team can make, you will seek out and hire new members to join our quest who will add to our team dynamics, knowledge base, potential to grow, and library of bad jokes
• You will represent your team as you work with other teams, departments, and partners to help shape the studio and the company itself into a better place for all the people to be human beings while they go about using their skills, creativity, and talent to innovate and create amazing games and experiences for our players
• You will facilitate your team developing meaningful production practices that they own and are invested in, whether that be in engineering teams, cross functional working groups, or as individuals
• You are a champion of good engineering practices and will work to give engineers the space they need to produce quality code that can run continuously for years
• Often this means being a bridge between engineering and non-technical colleagues to help explain some of the bizarre rituals and practices that we call engineering

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Short and long term disability
• 401(k)
• Flexible and dependent care spending accounts
• PTO
• Paid holidays
• Parental leave