Every day, tens of millions of people come to Confidential (Registered Users Only) to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences – all created by our global community of developers and creators.
A key aspect of immersive experience is performance - less friction means players want to stay longer and come back for more. As the Engineering Manager for Consumer Apps - Performance, you will lead a team focused on making Confidential (Registered Users Only) more performant, responsive, and resilient across all supported platforms - mobile, desktop, console. You'll drive research of performance optimization opportunities, and long-term strategy for regression defense and architecture improvements. Your work will directly influence company-level goals around monetization, engagement and retention.
This role is based at Confidential (Registered Users Only) HQ in San Mateo, CA (no remote option).
You Will:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to senior, in their development.
- Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done.
- Define and execute the product and technical strategy for performance improvements and regression defense across all supported platforms
- Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution.
- Partner with PM, Data, and stakeholders across Confidential (Registered Users Only), to identify opportunities, analyze impact, create novel solutions and establish processes aimed to improve application performance.
You Have:
- 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager or tech lead manager.
- 8+ years of experience building large client applications with a deep technical expertise in at least one of the client platforms - Android, iOS, Windows, or MacOS
- Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers. You have demonstrated outcomes of facilitating team success and leading by example.
- A proven track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints
- Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
You Are:
- Proactive: You operate with a sense of urgency, initiating conversations and workflow that pushes product strategy and the team forward
- A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users and closely collaborate with Product Managers to build into the roadmap
- Team Oriented: You are constantly looking at how to make the team stronger – both the team you directly manage, and the team of peers you collaborate with.
- Solution Oriented: You start with the problem to be solved, and stay laser-focused on getting it solved. You can tackle anything that comes your way, whether it’s a technical problem, a business problem, or a people problem.