Lead an approximately 10-person QA team across multiple services, managing testing, quality improvements, and stakeholder feedback while building AI-enabled verification processes. Remote work is available.
About this role
This role supports the server-side engineering of a large game platform used by several million users per month. The position is advertised as an engineering manager candidate, but initially involves gaining solid practical experience as a server engineer. Responsibilities include designing, developing, and operating server-side systems for end-user features, as well as SDKs and web applications for game developers.
The work also includes redesigning and developing systems to improve operational efficiency, continuously improving stability and scalability, and monitoring technical developments so that appropriate responses and designs can be made. The platform provides browser-based access to a range of games and supports developers with platform functions such as accounts and payments, allowing them to focus on developing core game features.
The listed server-side language is Perl. Other technologies named in the posting include Kotlin, Swift, Java, Objective-C, and Unity for mobile-related development; AWS and Google Cloud; Apache, Nginx, Memcached, Redis, and q4m; and MySQL. The development and operations environment includes Amazon EC2, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, BigQuery, Visual Code, GitHub Copilot, GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.
The role is part of the Mobage platform development organization. The team consists of 13 regular employees and four dispatched employees, including a manager or lead and another lead. After joining, the successful applicant enters an existing product team and begins by learning the codebase and business domain. A lead engineer or engineering manager serves as a mentor while the scope of work expands gradually. Longer-term opportunities described include management, technology strategy design, and participation in architecture renewal projects, depending on the person's interests and strengths.
The department currently has no required office attendance days and works in a manner close to fully remote. The stated locations include DeNA's Shibuya headquarters office in Tokyo, its two Yokohama offices, or a company-approved home or equivalent remote-work location.
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