Engineering Manager (Backend Python + Django)

Scopely is looking for a Engineering Manager (Backend: Python Django)to join the WWE Champions team in Bangalore!

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 global team of game lovers who are developing publishing and innovating the mobile games industry connecting millions of people around the world daily.

WWE Champions is our ultimate and unique RPG puzzle match game featuring WWE superstars and legends across mobile and PC platforms. WWE Champions is the most downloaded WWE game to date with a highly engaged and passionate community.

What Youll Do

As an Engineering Manager you will lead the teams overseeing the systems that power live game configuration blueprint and content delivery feature controls and the backend runtime that serves core gameplay and live operations at scale. You will be accountable for team health technical execution operational excellence and cross-functional delivery across a complex live-service ecosystem ensuring that tools used by designers and live-ops teams translate safely and reliably into production game behavior.

• Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for both Game Backend and Live Tools including coaching performance management hiring and career development
• Own delivery across two tightly connected domains: the internal content/configuration platform and the live backend services that power player-facing gameplay systems
• Drive execution for systems that manage blueprints game configuration live-ops content server controls A/B testing segmentation and feature rollout workflows
• Partner closely with product design analytics QA and operations to plan and deliver live-service features events and tooling improvements
• Ensure strong operational rigor across backend services including reliability performance observability incident response and production readiness
• Guide technical direction for a large Python/Django ecosystem built on Redis DynamoDB async job processing and blueprint-driven runtime behavior
• Oversee the health of deployment and publishing flows that move data between services including blueprint packaging environment promotion caching and rollout safety
• Help the team balance short-term live-ops responsiveness with long-term platform investments code health and system maintainability
• Establish clear engineering processes for planning prioritization estimation quality release management and cross-team coordination
• Partner with senior engineers and tech leads on architecture technical risk management and modernization opportunities across legacy and live production systems
• Create strong feedback loops with stakeholders who depend on internal tools ensuring design content and live-ops workflows are efficient safe and scalable
• Support live-service excellence by leading incident reviews improving operational playbooks and hardening systems that directly affect player experience

What Were Looking For

• Experience Technical Skills
• 6 years of software engineering experience with 2 years of people management or technical team leadership experience
• Proven experience managing backend or platform teams supporting live-service products game services or other high-availability systems
• Demonstrated success leading through ambiguity aligning cross-functional stakeholders and delivering across multiple parallel workstreams
• Strong people-management skills including coaching feedback performance management and building healthy accountable engineering culture
• Experience balancing execution technical quality and long-term platform evolutionin a fast-moving product environment
• Strong backend engineering foundation ideally in Python and Django or similarly large service-oriented web platforms
• Solid understanding of live backend systems RESTful APIs distributed systems caching asynchronous processing and operational tooling
• Hands-on familiarity with Redis DynamoDB and data models used in performance-sensitive high-throughput applications
• Experience with systems that manage configuration feature flags experiments content pipelines or blueprint/data-driven runtime behavior
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and service operations especially AWS-based environments and supporting developer workflows
• Ability to partner credibly in architecture and debugging discussions involving reliability scale release safety and production incidents
• Experience improving engineering practices around testing deployment observability code review and maintainability in large shared codebases
• Cross-Functional and Domain Knowledge
• Experience supporting internal tools used by non-engineering teams such as game design live-ops economy design QA or analytics
• Strong understanding of how backend systems admin tools and content pipelines work together to power live events gameplay tuning and player-facing experiences
• Experience with A/B testing segmentation rollout controls or live configuration systems is strongly preferred
• Comfortable partnering across technical and non-technical functions to translate product and operational needs into durable engineering solutions
• Experience in mobile games live-service games or game-adjacent backend/platform environments is highly preferred
• Soft Skills & Education
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• Strong communication skills with the ability to align engineers stakeholders and leadership around priorities tradeoffs and outcomes
• Pragmatic organized and highly accountable with a strong sense of ownership for both team effectiveness and production quality
• Passion for games live operations and building systems that help teams ship better player experiences safely and efficiently

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company home to many of the worlds most beloved and enduring experiences including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time MONOPOLY GO! and Pokémon GO along with Stumble Guys Star Trek Fleet Command MARVEL Strike Force WWE Champions the Scrabble franchise Yahtzee With Buddies and many others. Across mobile web PC and console Scopely creates develops publishes and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011 Scopely is powered by its exceptional team including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe a distinctive tenet-driven culture and its proprietary technology platform Playgami. Together these strengths have fueled Scopelys position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like MONOPOLY GO! from the ground up or expanding through strategic acquisitions including the FoxNext GSN and Niantic games businesses Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World by TIME magazine and one of Fast Companys Worlds Most Innovative Companies and Best Workplaces for Innovators Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good creating meaningful connections vibrant communities and making life better through play.

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