Senior Engineering Manager, Game Experience

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $149.5k - $238.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Zwift

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

💰 $450M Series C on 2020-08

Gaming • Sports

Zwift is an online fitness platform that allows users to engage in cycling and running activities from the comfort of their homes. By utilizing interactive equipment and an immersive digital environment, Zwift seeks to enhance user experience and promote fitness through virtual cycling and running sessions. They also offer support for cycling and running, and sales of related equipment to optimize the Zwifting experience. Zwift hosts events such as the Zwift Academy and Zwift Racing, providing a social and competitive element to virtual fitness.

📋 Description

• Directly manage a senior team of 6–8 engineers • Coach engineers and support career development and performance management • Hire engineers and foster a culture of high-autonomy engineering excellence • Provide technical oversight for C++ gameplay systems • Guide scalable and maintainable architecture, cross-platform performance, memory management, and long-term technical health • Own the end-to-end software development life cycle for live-service game features • Champion automated testing, feature flagging, phased rollouts, and real-time telemetry • Lead agile team processes, including Scrum and Kanban • Manage incoming requests and own the team roadmap • Unblock the team, mitigate risks, and maintain stakeholder visibility • Drive alignment across engineering, game design, product management, program management/producers, UX, QA, and hardware teams • Establish technical strategy and project milestones

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years in a software engineering management role, with experience directly managing, coaching, and growing engineers in the games industry • 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in game development • Deep fluency in C++ and commercial or custom game engines • Strong understanding of game performance, profiling, memory management, and multi-platform game architecture • Experience operating and maintaining features within a live-service game • Experience with production quality, operational monitoring, phased deployments, feature flag management, and support • Ability to independently define technical strategy and team roadmaps • Ability to navigate ambiguity and cross-team dependencies • Ability to lead game engineering teams using modern agile practices • Experience running sprints, mitigating delivery risks, and establishing reliable release schedules • Bonus: Experience integrating game clients with backend services, persistence layers, and iOS, iPadOS, and Android ecosystems • Bonus: Experience in console game development • Bonus: Experience with AI-assisted development tools and auditing agentically generated code • Bonus: Experience with external hardware controllers or physical inputs • Bonus: Experience with live-game experimentation, A/B testing, and analytics tools or data pipelines such as Amplitude and Databricks • Interest in products supporting cyclists, runners, and fitness enthusiasts • Candidates may not use AI tools during interviews without disclosure or citation

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance bonuses • Equity • Medical benefits • Financial benefits • Other perks and benefits • Equal Opportunity Employer • Disability or special-needs accommodation available