Scopely is looking for a Engineering Manager (Unity) 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 a team responsible for building and maintaining key client systems for the Unity game. You will support engineers working across gameplay, live events, UI, monetization, platform integrations, and client infrastructure, while ensuring strong execution, healthy team dynamics, and sustainable engineering practices in a live-service mobile game environment. This role is ideal for a leader who can combine delivery ownership, people management, and technical partnership in a complex production codebase.
- Lead and support a team of engineers building and maintaining player-facing client systems in a large Unity/C# mobile game codebase.
- Drive execution across feature development, live-ops support, bug fixing, technical improvements, and release readiness.
- Partner with product, design, QA, analytics, art, and technical leadership to plan work, manage priorities, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Work closely with senior engineers and technical leads to shape implementation plans, reduce risk, and improve system maintainability.
- Help the team navigate the challenges of a live-service environment, including operational deadlines, cross-team dependencies, and production issues.
- Coach and develop engineers through feedback, career growth, performance management, and day-to-day support.
- Improve team health and effectiveness through better planning, estimation, communication, development processes, and engineering standards.
- Support incident response, production issue triage, and continuous improvement across quality, stability, and delivery practices.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience Technical Skills
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years of people management or technical team leadership experience
- Experience working on Unity-based products, game clients, or other complex interactive applications is strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, client architecture, and large-scale production development practices
- Ability to partner effectively with senior engineers on system design, technical tradeoffs, and execution planning
- Experience leading teams that ship features in live-service, mobile, or operationally complex product environments
- Familiarity with performance, quality, testing, build/release processes, and production stability concerns
- Comfortable working with multi-system feature delivery involving gameplay, UI, platform services, monetization, and live content
- Technical credibility to guide discussions, unblock engineers, and make sound prioritization decisions without needing to be the primary implementer
- Cross-Functional and Domain Knowledge
- Experience supporting live-service development, roadmap planning, and event-driven delivery cycles
- Understanding of game feature development such as progression, economy, monetization, social systems, live events, or PvP is a plus
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills and ability to align teams around scope, priorities, and outcomes
- Able to balance short-term delivery pressure with long-term technical health and team sustainability
- Soft Skills & Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and grow engineers across multiple levels
- Ownership mindset, sound judgment, and calm decision-making in a fast-moving environment
- Passion for games, team development, and building strong engineering organizations
About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.
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Skills Required
- 6+ years software engineering experience
- 2+ years people management or technical team leadership experience
- Experience with Unity-based products, game clients, or other complex interactive applications
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, client architecture, and large-scale production development practices
- Experience leading teams that ship features in live-service, mobile, or operationally complex product environments
- Familiarity with performance, quality, testing, build/release processes, and production stability concerns
- Comfortable working with multi-system feature delivery involving gameplay, UI, platform services, monetization, and live content
- Ability to partner effectively with senior engineers on system design, technical tradeoffs, and execution planning
- Experience supporting live-service development, roadmap planning, and event-driven delivery cycles
- Understanding of game feature development such as progression, economy, monetization, social systems, live events, or PvP
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and grow engineers across multiple levels
- Ownership mindset, sound judgment, and calm decision-making
- Passion for games, team development, and building strong engineering organizations
Scopely Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Scopely and has not been reviewed or approved by Scopely.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust, with employer-verified medical, dental, vision, and mental health benefits and consistently positive mentions for core insurance. This area stands out as a dependable element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO, company-designated “free days,” and paid holidays are widely cited and employer-verified in recent listings. The breadth of formal time-off options is positioned as a key advantage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity and bonus eligibility are highlighted across current job posts, and external recognition has repeatedly called out strong compensation and perks. Equity and stock programs provide meaningful upside for many roles, particularly in tech and product.
Scopely Insights
What We Do
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences based on both original and licensed IP, including “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Scrabble® GO,” “WWE Champions," “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and "Stumble Guys," among others. Scopely creates, publishes and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry. Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s "World’s Most Innovative Companies" and Built In's "Best Places to Work," Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years. Scopely has global operations in Bangalore, Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, Sevilla, Shanghai, Singapore, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and more! Scopely is home to many internal game development teams, or Scopely Studios, including: Boundless Entertainment, DIGIT, Genjoy, Hijump, Omnidrone and Parallel, among others, with additional studio partners in seven countries across four continents. For more information, visit scopely.com.
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