Engineering Manager, Client (Unity) - Unannounced Project

About the role

Scopely is looking for an Engineering Manager, Client (Unity) to join our new unannounced project in Barcelona, Spain to work on a hybrid basis 3 times a week. We can support with visa sponsorship and relocation support

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a distributed team of game enthusiasts who are developing, publishing, and innovating in the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world every day

We embrace AI-forward development practices and expect our engineers to be curious and pragmatic about how these tools can raise the bar

We are in the development stages of a bold, unannounced, cross-platform Strategy/MMO title. We are looking for passionate game makers to collaborate, get in early and make their mark on this exciting venture

What You Will Do

- Lead and manage a team of experienced engineers who focus on developing and maintaining the game client

- Design and implement new features in our game client, working collaboratively with other stakeholder teams to understand requirements and identify the best technical solutions

- Propose and implement improvements to our development processes, workflows and tools, to increase efficiency, quality and throughput

- Conduct pair programming, code reviews, 1-1’s and knowledge sharing sessions to enhance skills and build a strong development culture

- Work closely with QA to resolve bugs and deliver high-quality code for testing, contributing directly to the code base

- Be the quality gate for all code that goes into our game. Keep the team writing clean, efficient and optimized code

- Work with stakeholders to figure out and implement the best alternative technical solutions

- Leverage AI tools and agentic workflows in your daily work — from tech planning, code generation and review to exploring novel solutions

What We’re Looking For

- Have technically led or managed a team (any size really)

- Proven ability to engage and motivate, to bring out the best in people

- Experienced being part of a professional development team working on game client features or other relevant areas

- Familiarity with software development methodologies such as Agile and Scrum

- Excellent experience working with multiple stakeholders in the development process - be able to understand their goals, and deliver/ evaluate various tech solutions to meet these

- Strong technical skills and experience in at least one of the following areas: game engines, rendering engines, networking, physics, AI, audio

- Excellent programming skills in C# or C++

- Experience in mobile and/or PC game development

- Experience with version control, build tools and deployment pipelines