Rec Room

Engineering Manager, Community

Rec Room

Remote job description

Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of rooms, or build something new to share with us all!

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to guide and inspire our Community team. The Community team believes that Rec Room is a great place to make friends, have a blast hanging out with those friends, and do it all again. In this role you will be given the freedom and responsibility to make that happen across our user base. As an Engineering Manager, you are tasked with leading the engineering effort and ensuring its productivity.

In this role you will:

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers across a wide variety of features and systems, while also writing your own production-ready code
  • Guide the development and maintenance of systems and features that bring players together
  • Use data to ascertain player needs
  • Advocate for users and the type of community we want to foster
  • Manage while providing guidance and mentorship in both technical and soft skills
  • Own the team's productivity and metrics
  • Work with Tech Leads, Program Managers, and Designers to plan the team's road map
  • Manage the team's release schedule and issue escalation
  • Wrangle cross-team dependencies

We are looking for individuals with:

  • A Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of professional development experience
  • 2+ years of experience managing and leading teams of Software Engineers
  • Experience with Unity, Unreal, or a similar game engine
  • Experience writing production distributed systems or cloud services
  • A desire to advocate for players and their needs
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • An ability to thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous development environments

Bonus points if you also have:

  • Experience growing teams, especially at startups
  • 3+ years of C# experience, particularly in the Unity environment
  • Experience designing and building for multiple platforms (mobile, console, VR)
  • Experience working on a live online service
  • Background in real-time collaborative editing applications

Company info to know:

Rec Room offers generous medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. We also support your retirement benefits with a company match. Rec room values work-life balance and provides unlimited paid time off. We work hard to ensure Rec Room is a fun and friendly place for people from all walks of life.

Rec Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.




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Company name: Rec Room
Remote job title: Engineering Manager, Community

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