Description

Are you an accomplished engineering leader with a passion for building robust platforms and empowering development teams? Playrix is seeking a Director of Engineering to join our Technology team, focusing on the critical platform services and tools that power our acclaimed games.

We champion a product-oriented approach, fostering a culture of shared best practices and demanding the highest standards of quality and reliability in every solution we deliver.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Team Leadership: Build, coach, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, cultivating an environment of excellence, autonomy, and continuous growth.
• Product Roadmap Ownership: Collaborate closely with Technical Producers to define, prioritize, and execute the technical product roadmap for our platform services and tools.
• Drive Engineering Excellence: Lead initiatives to continuously enhance our engineering practices, scrutinizing tech stack, tools, solution designs, and production/operations efficiency to ensure top-tier quality and performance.

What We're Looking For

• Senior Leadership Experience: 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience (across mobile, web, or desktop environments), with at least 5+ years in senior management roles.
• Large-Scale Team Management: Proven experience managing a large team of engineers (40+ people), with a track record of fostering a culture of independence and self-organization.
• Transformational Leader: Demonstrated experience in change management and successfully building/improving efficient production, delivery, and operations processes at a company-wide level.
• Strong Technical Foundation: Deep technical expertise and previous hands-on experience as a software engineer, ideally with large mobile or desktop products (iOS/Android native, C++/C#/Java/Scala).
• Proactive & Impact-Oriented: Possess an action-oriented, self-starter mindset and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Bar Raiser Mentality: You are inherently dissatisfied with the status quo, constantly challenging yourself, your teams, and your peers to strive for greater innovation and efficiency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with high-load products featuring distributed architectures.
• Familiarity with our core stack: C++, Python, Go, JavaScript.
• Previous experience in game development.
• Specific experience in producing tools for mobile/desktop product development.
• Nice to have: Experience with complex in-house or Unity/Unreal game engines.

Note: If you feel strongly that you have what it takes for this role but don’t check 100% of the boxes—that’s okay—we encourage you to apply anyway and highlight what you can bring to the table.