Engineering Manager (Backend ) - WWE Champions

Scopely is looking for an Engineering Manager, Backend (Gaming) to join the WWE Champions team in Bangalore!

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

WWE Champions is our ultimate and unique RPG puzzle match game featuring WWE superstars and legends across mobile and PC platforms. WWE Champions is the most downloaded WWE game to date, with a highly engaged and passionate community.

What You’ll Do

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead the teams overseeing the systems that power live game configuration, blueprint and content delivery, feature controls, and the backend runtime that serves core gameplay and live operations at scale. You will be accountable for team health, technical execution, operational excellence, and cross-functional delivery across a complex live-service ecosystem, ensuring that tools used by designers and live-ops teams translate safely and reliably into production game behavior.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for both Game Backend and Live Tools, including coaching, performance management, hiring, and career development

Own delivery across two tightly connected domains: the internal content/configuration platform and the live backend services that power player-facing gameplay systems

Drive execution for systems that manage blueprints, game configuration, live-ops content, server controls, A/B testing, segmentation, and feature rollout workflows

Partner closely with product, design, analytics, QA, and operations to plan and deliver live-service features, events, and tooling improvements

Ensure strong operational rigor across backend services, including reliability, performance, observability, incident response, and production readiness

Guide technical direction for a large Python/Django ecosystem built on Redis, DynamoDB, async job processing, and blueprint-driven runtime behavior

Oversee the health of deployment and publishing flows that move data between services, including blueprint packaging, environment promotion, caching, and rollout safety

Help the team balance short-term live-ops responsiveness with long-term platform investments, code health, and system maintainability

Establish clear engineering processes for planning, prioritization, estimation, quality, release management, and cross-team coordination

Partner with senior engineers and tech leads on architecture, technical risk management, and modernization opportunities across legacy and live production systems

Create strong feedback loops with stakeholders who depend on internal tools, ensuring design, content, and live-ops workflows are efficient, safe, and scalable

Support live-service excellence by leading incident reviews, improving operational playbooks, and hardening systems that directly affect player experience

What We’re Looking For

Experience Technical Skills

6+ years of software engineering experience, with 1+ years of people management or technical team leadership experience

Proven experience managing backend or platform teams supporting live-service products, game services, or other high-availability systems

Demonstrated success leading through ambiguity, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and delivering across multiple parallel workstreams

Strong people-management skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and building healthy, accountable engineering culture

Experience balancing execution, technical quality, and long-term platform evolutionin a fast-moving product environment

Strong backend engineering foundation, ideally in Python and Django or similarly large service-oriented web platforms

Solid understanding of live backend systems, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, caching, asynchronous processing, and operational tooling

Hands-on familiarity with Redis, DynamoDB, and data models used in performance-sensitive, high-throughput applications

Experience with systems that manage configuration, feature flags, experiments, content pipelines, or blueprint/data-driven runtime behavior

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and service operations, especially AWS-based environments and supporting developer workflows

Ability to partner credibly in architecture and debugging discussions involving reliability, scale, release safety, and production incidents

Experience improving engineering practices around testing, deployment, observability, code review, and maintainability in large shared codebases

Cross-Functional and Domain Knowledge

Experience supporting internal tools used by non-engineering teams such as game design, live-ops, economy design, QA, or analytics

Strong understanding of how backend systems, admin tools, and content pipelines work together to power live events, gameplay tuning, and player-facing experiences

Experience with A/B testing, segmentation, rollout controls, or live configuration systems is strongly preferred

Comfortable partnering across technical and non-technical functions to translate product and operational needs into durable engineering solutions

Experience in mobile games, live-service games, or game-adjacent backend/platform environments is highly preferred

Soft Skills & Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Strong communication skills, with the ability to align engineers, stakeholders, and leadership around priorities, tradeoffs, and outcomes

Pragmatic, organized, and highly accountable, with a strong sense of ownership for both team effectiveness and production quality

Passion for games, live operations, and building sys…