2k Games

Manager, Engineering

2k Games • $120K — $150K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of managing engineering teams with an emphasis on growth and safety.
  • Deep background in software development for meaningful feedback.
  • Experience implementing technical standards enhancing team velocity.
  • Skills in collaborating with external stakeholders for problem-solving.
  • Ability to balance business feature demands and engineering needs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor engineering teams through consistent 1:1 meetings and coaching.
  • Optimize the technical development process to improve daily output.
  • Champion modern engineering practices like TDD and documentation-as-code.
  • Foster a culture of feedback through code reviews and design discussions.
  • Drive initiatives for tech debt reduction and architectural improvements.
  • Engage in architecture reviews and coach engineers for performance standards.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead and shape a high-performing engineering culture.
  • Focus on modern engineering practices and processes that empower teams.
  • Engagement in strategic projects aimed at maintaining a healthy codebase.
Full Job Description
What We Need

The Core Technology group is responsible for identifying common problems across the company and building solutions to those problems. We fill our team with individuals who enjoy a challenge, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and want to take ownership and responsibility for products. If you are passionate about working in the game industry and implementing cool features for our game products, come join our team.

What You'll Do
  • Empower and Mentor: Lead a team of engineers through consistent 1:1s, career mapping, and performance coaching to build a high-trust, high-output culture.
  • Development Process Optimization: Own and refine the technical development process. You will help the engineering staff optimize their daily output by establishing clear standards and workflows that reduce "toil" and cognitive load.
  • Modern Engineering Practices: Champion high-quality habits-including TDD, AI-augmented development, and documentation-as-code-to ensure the team builds right the first time.
  • Technical Quality & Mentorship: Cultivate a culture of rigorous, constructive feedback through code reviews and design discussions, ensuring these are vehicles for mentorship rather than just rubber-stamping.
  • Drive Engineering Initiatives: Lead internal-first projects like tech debt reduction, architectural refactors, and API standardization that keep the codebase healthy and scalable.
  • Low-Level Technical Oversight: Stay "close to the metal" by participating in architecture reviews and coaching engineers to ensure the team maintains high standards of performance and code quality.

What Will Make You A Great Fit
  • Leadership Experience: 3+ years managing/leading engineering teams, with a track record of fostering psychological safety and technical growth.
  • Backend Engineering Foundation: A background building backend services in modern languages (Java or Golang), with the depth to give meaningful feedback and mentorship on microservice architecture, API design, and implementation on a large scale platform.
  • The "Paved Road" Mindset: Proven ability to implement technical standards and development workflows that increase team velocity without adding bureaucratic "red tape."
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Experience working closely with Product and Program teams to turn complex technical challenges into prioritized, well-scoped solutions that bring real value to our customers.
  • Strategic Prioritization: The ability to balance the "feature" demands of the business with the "engineering-first" needs of a healthy, modern codebase.
Bonus Items
  • Gaming Domain Interest: A passion for player-centric technology, ideally complemented by experience building online services or backend platforms for game development.
  • Architecture & Scale: Hands-on experience with low-latency systems and massive-scale backend online services infrastructure.
  • Cloud Platform Fluency: Hands-on experience with public cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and a working knowledge of their core services and how to apply them effectively.

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About 2k Games

2K Games is an American video game publisher based in Novato, California. The company was founded in January 2005 by Take-Two Interactive, and is best known for publishing the NBA 2K series of basketball games. Other popular franchises published by 2K Games include the Borderlands series, the BioShock series, and the Mafia series. The company has also published several licensed games based on popular movies and TV shows, such as The Walking Dead and WWE.
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