Engineering Manager (Social Casino Gaming)

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Company Description
JoyFlux Studios is supporting a social casino mobile gaming studio with a 20-game portfolio played by users around the world. Our games span slot machines, collection mechanics, tournaments, battle passes, VIP systems, and live-ops events. We're a remote-first studio with leadership in the United States and a global team across the Americas and Asia. We move fast. We value execution, ownership, and consistency. If you enjoy leading engineering at scale and shipping mobile games in a production-focused environment, you'll fit right in.
The Role
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead engineering across our 20-game social casino portfolio, set the technical roadmap, and scale our development organization. This is a player-coach role: you'll own architecture, infrastructure, and team leadership while staying close enough to the code to make sharp technical decisions. You must have a deep knowledge of Unity for the role.
You'll report directly to the CEO, with a strong partnership with the COO on product, live-ops, and portfolio strategy. You'll lead a team of 8 engineers and 2 QA engineers based in Vietnam, with room to grow the team on an as-needed basis. You'll own the full stack: Unity (C#) game clients, .NET backend services, live-ops infrastructure, and the data and analytics platforms that support our portfolio. This is a high-impact role at a fast-growing studio with real revenue, an established portfolio, and meaningful equity on the table.
Working Hours & Time Zones
Our engineering and QA team in Vietnam works roughly 7:00 PM – 9:00 AM PST (their daytime hours). As Engineering Manager, you can work US hours or any window that supports the team – what matters is that you create consistent overlap, set a clear communication rhythm, and keep the team in sprint mode.
What You Will Do
* Own the technical roadmap across our 20-game Unity portfolio, including engine strategy, server architecture, and platform infrastructure
* Lead, mentor, and grow our senior engineering and QA team
* Set engineering standards: sprint cadence, code review, CI/CD, branching strategy, secrets management, and release discipline
* Drive release predictability across the portfolio – define what "ready to ship" means and enforce it
* Partner with the CEO and COO on product strategy, live-ops planning, and portfolio prioritization
* Build and scale backend infrastructure for live-ops features: events, sales, tournaments, VIP, loyalty, and collection systems
* Hire and onboard engineers to fill key gaps across client, backend, and data infrastructure
* Establish engineering metrics that surface team health and output without micromanagement
* Stay hands-on in Unity and .NET where it matters most – architecture, production debugging, and critical code review
What We're Looking For
* Direct experience shipping social casino, slots, or live-ops-heavy mobile games – strongly preferred
* Deep hands-on expertise with Unity (C#) for mobile clients: build pipelines, asset bundles, addressables, iOS/Android platform integration, and production debugging
* Strong .NET / C# backend experience, including modern .NET and microservice architecture
* Proven success leading distributed engineering teams across time zones, including offshore teams in Asia and direct working relationships with US-based executive leadership
* Strong opinions on engineering hygiene: branching strategy, code review standards, CI/CD, secrets management, observability, and on-call practice
* A clear point of view on how to measure engineering output on a remote team – commit cadence, PR throughput, ticket velocity, release predictability – without it feeling like surveillance
* Excellent written and verbal English. You will write architectural decisions, technical roadmaps, and team standards regularly.
* Self-starter who thrives without micromanagement, and who sets the same bar for the team
Compensation
* Competitive base salary, calibrated to location and seniority
* Performance-based bonus tied to portfolio releases, revenue milestones, and engineering KPIs
* Flexible schedule and remote-first culture
* Specific compensation discussed in the first conversation

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