Engineering Manager - Platform Unit

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Platform unit — the backend foundation powering content delivery, billing, haptics, ML-driven recommendations, and user identity across DeoVR on Quest, Apple Vision Pro, mobile, and web. You’ll be responsible for people, delivery, and processes across multiple backend teams, ensuring reliable execution, scalability, and continuous improvement while partnering closely with Product and Engineering leadership.

What You Will Do

• Lead and grow backend and ML engineering teams (25+ engineers); own headcount planning, hiring, performance management, and career development for engineers across the unit

• Own the unit's delivery commitments (sprint, quarter) and ensure predictable execution against them

• Partner with PMs and TLs to translate product goals into realistic roadmaps; balance feature work with tech debt, reliability, and operational needs

• Design, evolve, and enforce team processes - planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, code review policies, incident response, and post-mortems

• Track delivery health using metrics (throughput, lead time, predictability rate, incident rate, MTTR) and drive continuous improvement

• In a cooperation with DevOps engineers ensure teams meet agreed SLOs and reliability targets; own monitoring, alerting, and on-call process accountability

• Build a culture of constructive feedback, psychological safety, and engineering excellence across the unit

• Report progress, risks, and staffing needs to Engineering Leadership in a clear, structured way

What We Are Looking For

• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading backend teams (5+ engineers)

• Strong technical background in backend software engineering (any stack - you must be able to assess architecture, evaluate trade-offs, and challenge technical decisions credibly)

• Track record of hiring, growing, and retaining strong engineers

• Experience owning delivery commitments and driving predictable execution in a product engineering environment

• Experience with Agile/Scrum processes, sprint planning, retrospectives, and continuous improvement practices

• Strong communication skills - ability to articulate risks, trade-offs, and progress clearly to both engineers and leadership

• English B2+ and above (written and verbal communication)

Bonus Points

• Experience managing multiple teams or a unit-level engineering org (20+ engineers)

• Hands-on backend experience with PHP, Go, Python, or Java

• Familiarity with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch) databases in production

• Experience with delivery metrics (lead time, throughput, DORA metrics) and using data to drive process improvements

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices