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Software Engineering Manager

Who We Are

2K publishes some of the most popular video game franchises on the planet including Mafia, Borderlands, BioShock, NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Evolve, XCOM, and Sid Meier’s Civilization.

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 leading a high caliber team implementing cool features for our game products, come join us.

What You Will Do

• Grow and lead a distributed team of 8+ accomplished software engineers
• Collaborate with Product and Program management teams to guide delivery of the right output at the right time
• Create an environment and culture for the team to perform at high efficiency
• Interface with external groups to provide feedback, strategy, and direction
• Mentor senior engineers with a bias towards innovation and career development
• Keep your skills fresh by contributing to non-critical path coding or DevOps
What you bring
• Significant experience directly managing teams building testable, scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant, enterprise-grade systems
• Recent programming with some of our languages: Go and legacy Java server side, JavaScript, and C++ and for our client work, preferably including automated tests
• Ability to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• An attitude of achievement when our partners are successful
• B.S. in Computer Science, or similar

Bonus items
• Prior work in games
• Experience with multiple SQL and NoSQL databases at scale
• Any of: Kubernetes, Istio, Knative, Kafka, GCP or AWS
• Capable with Perforce and Git