Senior Engineering Manager
Farcana is a Web3 team-based ability hero shooter featuring fast-paced 4v4 PvP battles, unique heroes, esports, NFTs, and Bitcoin-backed rewards.
Funding history
About Farcana
Farcana develops and operates a sci-fi 4v4 PvP hero shooter with ability-based gameplay, competitive arenas, player-driven narrative, in-game economies, esports integration, NFT assets, and Bitcoin-backed rewards. Its platform also provides Web3 services for FAR token holders, including account assets, token staking, vesting, and airdrop participation. The organization primarily serves players, NFT holders, token holders, and participants in its gaming ecosystem.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead and develop engineers and engineering leads, structure teams, own delivery across projects and releases, improve engineering processes, manage performance and hiring, align engineering plans with product priorities, maintain technical standards, oversee infrastructure and reliability practices, and track engineering metrics.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams in a technology company
- Experience managing Senior Engineers, Tech Leads, or multiple engineering teams
- Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and system reliability
- Experience building or improving engineering processes and team structures
- Experience managing software delivery from planning through production
- Experience with hiring, onboarding, performance management, employee development, and difficult performance decisions
- Ability to manage technical debt while balancing short-term product priorities with long-term engineering quality
- Strong understanding of Agile software development principles and modern engineering practices
- Experience working closely with Product, Business, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience scaling an engineering organisation or building engineering processes in a startup or scale-up environment is a plus
- Experience in AI, ML infrastructure, distributed systems, developer infrastructure, or technically complex products is a plus
- Advanced English (C1)
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers and engineering leads
- Structure engineering teams and define ownership
- Own engineering execution across projects and releases
- Track progress, blockers, dependencies, risks, and timelines
- Build and improve planning, estimation, development, testing, release, retrospective, and incident-management processes
- Identify and remove engineering bottlenecks
- Manage 1:1s, performance reviews, development plans, feedback cycles, and performance improvement
- Partner on workforce planning, hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and offboarding
- Translate product priorities into engineering plans
- Maintain standards for architecture, code quality, scalability, security, reliability, technical debt, and maintainability
- Ensure effective CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, incident response, and production reliability practices
- Track delivery, quality, reliability, capacity, and performance metrics
Benefits
- 24 days annual leave
- Public holidays
- Health insurance
- Performance-based incentives
- Real ownership and direct impact
- Direct collaboration with the CTO and Co-Founder
- Opportunity to shape engineering processes, team structure, hiring, and ways of working
- Exposure to technically challenging AI, infrastructure, and distributed systems problems
- Fast execution, low bureaucracy, and a highly collaborative team
- Modern office in Yas Creative Hub
- Continuous learning through real-world problem solving
- Opportunity to influence engineering execution and product direction
- Diverse, open-minded team
