Position: Software Development Manager
Company: Product Madness
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Reporting into the Technical Director of our London office, your teams will be responsible for building and maintaining our Live Ops platform, and the events which run on it. However as we look to expand our operations in Lviv, more functions will fall under your remit as the company grows.
 
Your role is to help grow the software development team, and to drive engineering excellence through sound DevOps principles, using agile and lean methodologies. This is a role that will suit an empathetic technology leader, who can focus on driving a candid feedback culture, mentor and coach engineers and have a focus on great people and cross-team practices.
 
The main tech stack is currently web based against a Ruby on Rails backend running on physical machines. We will be moving to cloud based microservices and refreshing our technologies over the next years with a move to a mixed technology stack to be defined. Our development support runs on Jenkins for CI, Applivery, Artifactory, Git for source control, and Jira/Atlassian for project management.

Requirements
 
Essential:
 
Experience working closely with Product Owners, Quality Assurance, Platform teams, Server teams and other leaders to ensure the department is delivering world-class technology.
Experience advocating and promoting modern, agile software development practices.
Experience with full stack web environments developed in Ruby on Rails, NodeJS or similar technology stack
Experience with managing multiple teams, and have successfully solved many of the tough organisational challenges that follow
Experience of influencing across team & wider teams
Experience working in high volume releases environments 
 
Nice to Have:
 
Experience with development using cloud based technologies (especially GCP)
Knowledge of game/media creation engines such as PixiJS, Dragonbones, etc
Foster the development of direct reports by providing coaching & setting short-term, & long-term, stretch goals to ensure employee growth.
Work with leaders and HR team to attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent.
Ability to push standardisation across teams and optimize workflows in collaboration with project management.
Help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices.
A platform/service development background as an engineer.
Knowledge of good engineering practices and code architecture.
Experience in coaching and growing high-performing engineers. 

Benefits

Work in the product IT companies
20 days of annual leave
Official employment
Educational English programs
Travel to the United Kingdom
Bonus scheme
Christmas present
Events throughout the year
Modern office in the city center 

About Us

Product Madness burst into life in 2007 as the brainchild of two Stanford Business MBA graduates who possessed an innate love of gaming. Initially, the entrepreneurs developed casual games for Facebook and mobile, before having a ‘light-bulb moment’ in 2009 and refocusing their efforts with laser-guided precision on the exploding social casino genre. They have been bringing world-class social slots to real slots fans ever since! Now part of Aristocrat Leisure, Product Madness have published hit titles Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino and FaFaFa on Facebook, iOS and Android platforms and have grown considerably in size over the past year with offices in London and Lviv.
Product Madness’ dedication to promoting diversity and inclusion is clearly reflected in all our content and across all our platforms. Diversity is more than a commitment at Product Madness—it is in the core values of what we do. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, maternity, marriage or civil partnership, religion, race and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different.