Manager, Software Engineering

As a Software Engineer III on the FC Mobile team, you'll help shape the foundation that powers the world's most popular mobile football experience. You'll design and build large-scale, high-performance backend systems that enable real-time gameplay and live features for millions of players.

You'll work closely with designers, engineers, testers, and product owners to deliver reliable and scalable features. You will play a crucial role in providing technical leadership, overseeing project execution, mentoring team members to ensure best practices are followed. This role reports to the Technical Director.

Responsibilities

• Technical operations
• Design, develop, and maintain complex backend systems ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
• Provide technical guidance, expertise, and code reviews to team members, ensuring software quality and adherence to best practices
• Identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies to monitor and safeguard server technical KPIs to ensure minimal downtime and stable live operations
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and documentation by setting and enforcing coding standards
• Work with modern backend stacks including Java, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Project management
• Work together with project managers to provide estimations and manage priorities and resources to ensure on-time delivery
• Understand delivery needs from product owners to ensure smooth communication between different job functions
• Communicate efficiently with stakeholders about technical design/issues.
• People management
• Lead and inspire a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high performing work environment
• Mentor and train team members, promoting skill development and career growth