Engineering Manager

**Who We Are**:**At Patrianna LTD**, we're building a global social entertainment platform, focusing on innovative sports-oriented skill games for the North American market. With a reach of up to **150 million players worldwide**, we combine creativity and technical excellence to lead in the dynamic world of social gaming.**Who We're Looking For**:As the Engineering Manager in Patrianna's team, you will start by getting deep into the code — not just reviewing it, but actively writing features, debugging issues, and learning the architecture from the inside out. **For the first 3+ months, your focus will be hands-on development**: understanding our systems, our domain, and how our teams deliver software. This is a critical phase to build credibility, context, and technical ownership before taking on broader leadership responsibilities.This role is perfect for someone who leads by example — someone who believes that **great engineering leadership starts with strong engineering**. You'll collaborate with talented engineers and insightful product managers to deliver customer-centric solutions, and over time, you'll grow and support high-performing teams that do the same.If you're an experienced Java engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, thrives in production environments, and is ready to transition into a leadership role while staying technically grounded — let's talk.**Responsibilities**:- **Be a hands-on technical leader**: actively contribute to the codebase (primarily in Java), lead complex feature development, and guide the team through architectural and engineering challenges.- **Own and drive technical decisions**: design scalable, maintainable systems; document architecture, lead discussions and reviews with engineers and stakeholders.- **Balance leadership and execution**: split your time between coding, designing systems, mentoring engineers, and ensuring delivery aligns with product goals.- **Supervise and participate in planning**, people allocation, delivery expectations, and technical initiatives across teams.- **Drive cross-team initiatives**like analytical database setup, infrastructure upgrades, and performance tuning.- **Continuously improve engineering practices**: enhance CI/CD pipelines, enforce code quality, streamline development processes, etc.- **Maintain technical excellence**: reduce technical debt, promote innovation, and ensure systems are secure, performant, and easy to evolve.- **Foster a healthy team culture**: encourage ownership, support professional growth, and ensure open, constructive communication.- **Support hiring and performance management**: attract top talent, provide continuous feedback, and lead performance and compensation reviews with fairness and transparency.- **Celebrate wins and navigate challenges**: promote team success, handle setbacks constructively, and keep morale high - even in difficult situations.- **Maintain a healthy team culture**: support psychological safety, foster knowledge sharing, and celebrate wins.- **Participate in hiring top engineering talent**, making sure every new hire strengthens the team's capability and culture.**Requirements**:**Must Have**:- 10+ years of professional software development experience, with deep hands-on expertise in Java and its ecosystem- Proven system design and architecture skills for scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems- Strong understanding of JVM internals, memory management, and performance optimization- Solid experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including query tuning and indexing strategies- Deep understanding of messaging systems (Kafka preferred) and asynchronous event-driven architectures- Familiarity with concurrency, multithreading, and non-blocking I/O in Java- Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerized deployments, and modern DevOps practices- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)- Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident response using tools like Grafana, Kibana, Sentry, or DataDog- Strong code quality standards with experience in driving code reviews, testing practices, and CI/CD- Track record of leading engineering teams (2+ teams or 15+ engineers), with a balance of technical leadership and people management- Strong ownership mindset: ability to make and stand by tough decisions, align the team around priorities, and drive delivery- Clear, confident communicator in English (Upper-intermediate) - both technical and cross-functional communication**Would Be a Plus**:- Experience with Ebean, Protobuf, GCP- Expertise in high-load systems- iGaming industry experience- Experience running company-wide technical initiatives or driving engineering strategy- Passion for mentoring and growing other senior engineers into leadership roles**Our Tech Stack**:- Java 23- Spring Boot 3.5.4- Google Cloud Platform:- Kubernetes- Kafka- AlloyDB for PostgreSQL- Spanne