Engineering Manager

In this role, you’ll grow and empower a talented production team while guiding ambitious projects that directly impact how players connect, create, and play together. From big-picture strategy to day-to-day execution, your leadership will help deliver new features and improvements that enhance the game for millions worldwide.

If you’re passionate about games, thrive on building strong teams, and want your work to make a lasting mark on the Minecraft community, this is the role for you.

What you will do

• Team Management: Hire, develop, and manage developers' careers, performance, and growth.
• Project Execution: Break down work, balance workloads, track progress, and ensure timely, unblocked delivery.
• Collaboration: Partner with product, design, QA, and tech leadership to ensure alignment and shared success.
• Strategy and Planning: Align team goals with business objectives, roadmap, budget, and key performance metrics.
• Cross- Functional Coordination: Drive consistency and collaboration across departments and organizational processes.
• Process Facilitation: Lead Scrum ceremonies and foster continuous improvement.
• Ownership: Ensure feature quality and delivery performance.

Requirements

• Minecraft: Deep technical knowledge of the Minecraft Java ecosystem through working in the industry.
• Proven leadership in team management: experience hiring, mentoring, and developing developers, while managing career growth, performance, and feedback.
• Strong track record in project execution: ability to break down complex goals into clear tasks, balance team workloads, track progress, and deliver on time while unblocking challenges.
• Collaborative mindset: skilled at working closely with product managers, designers, QA, and technical leadership to ensure aligned goals and smooth execution.
• Strategic and analytical thinking: capable of aligning team objectives with business priorities, managing roadmaps and budgets, and tracking KPIs for productivity, quality, and delivery.
• Cross- functional leadership: experience driving collaboration and consistency across multiple teams and departments.
• Agile expertise: adept at leading Scrum ceremonies and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement.

If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed above, we still encourage you to reach out, apply, and tell us more about yourself in your application. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company, and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply.

What we offer

• Flexible working hours.
• Clear career growth and progression opportunities within the company.
• As a contractor: 30€ to 35€ per hour
• As an Employee in Germany: 24.50€ to 28.50€ per hour
• Employment is also available in the UK, Austria, Slovenia. Rate will differ based on local circumstances.

Additional Information

• Applicants must be older than 18 years old.
• Commitment of 40 hours per week.
• Fully remote.

How to apply

Please send your applications via email to jobs@sparkuniverse.com, and make sure to include the following details:

• Your full legal name
• Your country and time zone
• Link(s) or download(s) to your portfolio (GitHub, resume, etc.)
• A brief introduction about yourself, your journey so far, and what you hope to achieve!

Apply now