We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager (~12 years experience) to lead our Gaming Unit engineering team.

This is a hybrid leadership and technical role requiring strong backend platform expertise, distributed systems knowledge, delivery ownership, stakeholder engagementincluding international clientsand architectural collaboration.

The ideal candidate understands gaming architectures, high-concurrency systems, real-time scoring workflows, and performance-sensitive APIs.

What You Will Own

Engineering Leadership

- Lead and manage backend engineers across the Gaming Unit

- Drive hiring, mentoring, and performance management

- Build a culture of accountability, ownership, and technical depth

- Develop strong second-line leaders within the team

Delivery Execution

- Own end-to-end delivery of fantasy, predictors, quiz, and other gaming platform initiatives

- Ensure sprint predictability and release discipline

- Engage with international clients and stakeholders on delivery commitments and technical trade-offs

- Maintain operational stability during high-traffic tournaments and peak events

Technical Depth Architecture Support

- Design and review scalable gaming platform architectures

- Collaborate with the Technical Architect on system evolution

- Drive implementation of real-time or near real-time scoring systems

- Design and optimize scalable leaderboard systems

- Ensure high-performance APIs for gameplay, leaderboards, and contests

- Guide decisions around scalability, performance optimization, resilience, and cost efficiency

Platform System Evolution

- Strengthen multi-tenant architecture and shared services





- Improve performance benchmarking and load testing practices

- Optimize database, caching, and event-driven components

- Drive reusability across gaming variants

SDLC Operational Excellence

- Drive structured SDLC practices and engineering standards

- Improve observability and production monitoring

- Reduce production incidents during live game cycles

- Ensure compliance with data protection and privacy regulations such as GDPR

- Promote automation and DevOps collaboration

Technical Expectations
Required

- ~12 years of backend engineering experience

- Experience leading engineering teams (5+ years people management preferred)

- Strong experience building high-concurrency backend systems

- Experience designing distributed systems and scalable APIs

- Hands-on expertise with RDBMS systems (PostgreSQL, Aurora, or equivalent)

- Hands-on expertise with caching systems (Redis or equivalent)

- Experience designing and operating Event-Driven Architectures

- Experience building systems handling real-time or near real-time scoring workflows

- Robust understanding of performance engineering and load optimization

- Ability to deep dive into code when required

Good to Have

- Strong AWS architecture exposure

- Experience with ECS or containerized deployments

- Exposure to observability stacks

- Experience building scalable leaderboard systems

- Experience working with international clients

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📌 Senior Manager (Maharashtra)
🏢 Sportz Interactive
📍 Maharashtra