Seniority Level: Mid-Senior

Location: Long Beach, CA or Seattle, WA

About the role and about You:

As Engineering Manager in our Game Engineering team, you'll be responsible for leading a team of engineers to build and launch fun and exciting customer-facing features and improvements to our core game product which will be used by cyclists and runners from around the world. You'll work with your team and your partners across Product and Game Design to develop and incubate new ideas, create experiments and prototypes, and transform new concepts into stable, robust, production-ready features. 

You'll be responsible for your team's code quality, predictable and efficient delivery, and driving engineering best-practices like automated testing, maintainability, extensibility, resiliency, and scalability. You will use data to make decisions, and in the absence of data, you'll establish clear and representative metrics by which you can measure the performance and health of your products. You'll collaborate with other teams - including both software and hardware - to deliver large programs and share takeaways and standard methodologies across the organization. As a people leader, you'll be accountable for growing and developing your team, both through diverse hiring, as well as coaching and mentoring the individuals on your team to improve their technical and professional skills.

 

What you’ll do: 

•  Work directly with engineers, product managers, game designers, and program managers to scope, plan, and deliver projects and programs at a high degree of quality.
• Build realistic and efficient agile project plans, align across partner teams, proactively identify risks, and develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Define and drive key performance metrics and communicate progress to a broad set of collaborators across multiple subject areas.
• Identify, define, and drive key investments in quality within your team and across the Game Engineering organization (i.e. code quality, testing, engineering standard processes, etc.).
•  Develop a strong engineering team through diverse hiring, coaching, and mentoring, while retaining and supporting our top talent.

What we’re looking for: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar subject area.
• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• 3+ years of relevant management experience.
• Validated experience leading teams using agile methodologies.
• Experience leading remote and distributed teams.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Effective at hiring, coaching, and leading diverse engineering teams.
• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and automated software testing methodologies.
• Foundational knowledge in Computer Science, data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience with Git or similar distributed version control systems. 

Bonus points: 

• Experience with game development and managing game development teams.
• Experience working with Game Engines (e.g. Unity, Unreal, custom).
• Passion for cycling, running and/or wellness.
• Experienced Zwifter.
• Experience in video gaming or health & fitness industries.

For All US Based Full-Time Positions:

The base salary for this position ranges between $160,000 minimum to $204,000 maximum. The base salary will be based on a number of factors including the role offered, the individual's job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, Zwift is proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package for all eligible employees which also includes performance bonuses, equity, and a full range of medical, financial, and other perks and benefits.