Engineering Manager

Who are we?

StoryToys is a Top-Ten children’s app creator, delivering a suite of apps for children between the ages of 2 and 8. We work with the world’s biggest entertainment IP, translating their loved characters to a digital world. We publish worldwide, in 26 languages with monthly active users in the millions. We are based in Dublin, Ireland but work with a large global team.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a growing distributed team of engineers in building and maintaining mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms. As Engineering Manager, you will have a key role in shaping the future of our products and leading a team towards success.

Responsibilities:

Lead and coach a team of highly-skilled Unity engineers, ensuring that they are motivated, productive, and producing high-quality work. Recruit, interview, and hire strong engineering candidates, and guide their onboarding, training, and mentoring.
Regularly meet with your team members individually, evaluate their performance, provide feedback on work goals, and help guide their career development.

You’ll have excellent technical principles which you will use to elevate and nurture the people around you, providing your engineering team with architectural guidance and functional coaching to ensure the highest quality output.
Implement best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance. Champion and lead the creation of effective, timely, and up-to-date documentation to aid in research and development, and prevent the loss of institutional knowledge.

Strike the imperative balance between ensuring that engineering objectives and priorities are being met, whilst also focusing on commercial needs in terms of value, quality and delivery targets.
Understand organizational pain points and identify strategies to take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities.
Communicate technical matters to internal and external stakeholders to align on and support decisions.

Partner with colleagues in Production to help remove impediments for technical delivery, identify iterative improvements to workflow, and ensure Engineering capacity meets the needs of our product roadmap.
We want someone who can zoom into the details and zoom out to embrace the big picture.
Be the champion for the user and have real input on the end-user product!

You’ll strive to ensure source code integrity and accessibility for internal & external use.
Ensure that all products are developed in line with COPPA regulatory expectations.
Radar scanning – you’ll keep an eye outwards for technical innovations, observations, networking opportunities and best practices

Qualifications:

8+ years of experience in software engineering as an individual contributor.
5+ years of experience in mobile app development with a strong focus on Unity and C#.
Experience in leading and managing teams of developers, with a track record of delivering high-quality products on time and within budget. Experience with agile methodologies and working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Strong understanding of software development best practices and the software development life cycle.
Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a proven ability to inspire and motivate team members.
Ideally, experience or an understanding of children's play and early childhood education.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Engineering Manager with a passion for mobile app development and an interest in children's play to join our dynamic and growing team. If you are interested in this opportunity, please submit your resume and cover letter for consideration.