Software Development Manager

London, The United Kingdom

Unverified relocation package

About Product Madness

Product Madness burst into life in 2007 as the brainchild of two Stanford Business MBA graduates who possessed an innate love of gaming. Initially, the entrepreneurs developed casual games for Facebook and mobile, before having a ‘light-bulb moment’ in 2009 and refocusing their efforts with laser-guided precision on the exploding social casino genre. They have been bringing world-class social slots to real slots fans ever since! Now part of Aristocrat Leisure, Product Madness have published hit titles Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, FaFaFa and Lightning Link on Facebook, iOS and Android platforms and have grown considerably in size over the past year.

Position

Product Madness is looking for a passionate hands-off software development manager that can oversee remote full-stack developers in primary eastern Europe and a small team of native mobile client developers in London. Your role is to drive engineering excellence for a local engineering team as well as larger teams in Eastern Europe to support high performance using agile and lean methodologies.

Your teams are across the Central Operational Platforms and Services who are responsible for building and maintaining central services and platforms like customer support portal, email campaigns, game integration SDK for all our games to use the central services, 3rd party integrations to e.g. Appsflyer, Facebook, Apple as well as internal data integrations between the games and user acquisition and data science.

This is a role that will suit an empathetic technology leader, who can focus on driving a candid feedback culture, mentor and coach engineers and have a focus on great people and cross-team practices.

The mobile SDKs provide support for iOS and Android platforms and are developed in ObjC, Swift, Java and Kotlin, with a C# bridge for integration with Unity. A great emphasis is placed on CI, employing xUnit tools for testing, with Gradle for build orchestration on Jenkins.

The main tech stack is currently web-based against a Ruby on Rails backend running on physical machines. We will be moving to cloud-based microservices and refreshing our technologies over the next years with a move to a mixed technology stack to be defined. Our development support runs on Jenkins for CI, Applivery, Artifactory, Git for source control, and Jira/Atlassian for project management.

Your qualification

Experience working closely with various stakeholders (Devs, PO's, QA, DevOps, ect.)
Experience with managing multiple teams
Experience in native mobile SDK development using C#, ObjC/Swift, or Java/Kotlin
Experience with cloud platforms
Experience advocating and promoting modern, agile software development practices
Experience working in high volume releases environments
Familiarity with high throughput message broker/api backend systems

Will be a plus

Foster the development of direct reports by providing coaching & setting short-term & long-term stretch goals to ensure employee growth
Work with leaders and HR team to attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent
Ability to push standardisation across teams and optimize workflows in collaboration with project management
Help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
A platform/service development background as an engineer
Knowledge of good engineering practices and code architecture
Experience in coaching and growing high-performing engineers
Benefit but not a requirement to speak or write Russian
Experience with full stack web environments developed in Ruby on Rails and similar technology stacks