Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

VGW is an interactive entertainment company, harnessing technology and creativity to deliver world-class, free-to-play online social games. 

We're excited to announce an opening for an Engineering Manager to join our Engineering team in Poland.

As an Engineering Manager at VGW, you'll lead a team developing and maintaining a high-performance, distributed platform designed to handle large-scale traffic. This role offers the chance to solve complex challenges and make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

What you should know about our Engineering team:

• We make room to do things the right way, rather than hacking stuff in.
• You own your projects: you build it, you ship it, you run it.
• We were born in the cloud: practices like CI/CD, IaC, O11y and CyberSec are part of what we do.

When it comes to Learning and Development:

• Learning is part of our fabric. We have a world class Engineering Learning and Development program and we are passionate about career development. 
• Thought pioneers regularly give tailored talks and workshops for our team.
• We have both a technical and management track for career progression and promotions.
• We have a library of books and videos with good content and encourage staying on top of new practices. 

In terms of our tech stack, we host our docker containerized apps on AWS in EKS Kubernetes. In the containers, we run Kotlin on the JVM. TypeScript runs our client side where it's mostly React. Our databases is DynamoDB with Snowflake as our Data warehouse. 

Role requirements:

• Extensive experience in engineering, including leadership roles such as Engineering Manager;
• A proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams;
• Technical knowledge and experience in designing and implementing robust application architectures and scalable distributed system designs;
• Solid experience in AWS Cloud and strong understanding of modern infrastructure technologies, particularly Kubernetes;
• Empathy and a commitment to mentoring, guiding, and supporting your team's growth and career development;
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to balance people, vendors and stakeholders effectively;
• A product-focused mindset paired with excellent stakeholder management skills.

Role responsibilities:

• This role involves overseeing the Platform Backend team and collaborating closely with SRE and Infrastructure/DevOps Engineers, who are not direct reports;
• Ensure the platform's stability, performance, and resilience under heavy transactional load;
• Oversee design and scaling of high-throughput backend systems;
• Guide technical decisions, review solutions, maintain best practices to ensure smooth collaboration across multiple locations;
• Stay hands-on and up to date with technologies (AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, Java);
• Grow and coach the team, fostering strong engineering practices around cloud, microservices, and distributed systems;
• Experience managing a Platform or DevOps team - will be a big advantage. 

About VGW

VGW is an interactive entertainment company, harnessing technology and creativity to deliver world-class, free-to-play online social games.

With high-quality, acclaimed brands including Chumba Casino, Global Poker and LuckyLand Slots, we entertain and delight over one million players in North America.

As pioneers in sweepstakes promotions for online social games, we also offer our players the opportunity to redeem incredible prizes.

At VGW, one of our core values is "our players come first". This means always striving to deliver a safe, responsible and positive player experience.

Why VGW?

At VGW, we're more than just a team. We're a diverse and inclusive group of individuals, each playing a vital role in our success.

Our core values are clear and strong; we win together, do what's right, put our players first and are powered by passion.

We believe in our people and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcome, inspired, and supported. We recognise that life is more than just work - that's why we're all about flexibility so you can strike a healthy balance between your personal life and career. We're also here to champion your growth in your current role and future aspirations, providing opportunities for learning and career advancement. And to top it off, we back this all up with competitive compensation, perks and benefits.  

But it's not all business. We inject fun into the workplace, celebrate together and create lasting memories, from a mix of in-person and online events, to social gatherings and much more.

It's our combined skills, ideas and visions that drive us forward. Join us on this exciting journey, and together, we'll achieve remarkable things. 

If you want to join a team that does things differently, apply today - we look forward to seeing what you can bring to our team.

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