Engineering Manager - Outplayed

We’re on the hunt for a hands-on, impact-driven Engineering Manager to lead the technical future of Outplayed – Overwolf’s flagship Windows app for capturing, editing, and sharing epic gaming moments.

As our Outplayed Engineering Captain, you’ll steer all technical efforts across the Windows client, backend services, and TypeScript/React frontend. You’ll serve as the GM’s closest technical partner, guiding a multidisciplinary squad while staying deep in the code, architecture, and delivery.

So if you love building high-scale consumer products, thrive on blending leadership with technical ownership, and are ready to help shape the world’s top gameplay-capture experience - your next quest starts right here.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Shape the engineering vision and roadmap as part of Outplayed’s leadership team.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team spanning client, backend, frontend, and QA.
• Design, build, and maintain Outplayed’s end-to-end infrastructure and client application using solid OOP and software design principles.
• Drive reliable, high-quality delivery across features, releases, and technical initiatives.
• Own performance, stability, and reliability, setting clear testing and release processes.
• Investigate, resolve, and prevent production issues while continuously improving system health.
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices – code reviews, testing, monitoring, and documentation.
• Champion a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement

Requirements

• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a team lead or engineering manager.
• 6+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong understanding of software design, OOP, and modular architectures.
• Experience building Windows client applications and modules.
• Proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Proficiency with C++ or C# or Java.
• Experience working with AWS.
• Passion for clean architecture, performance, and long-term maintainability.

Bonus Points 

• A gamer at heart (PC or console).
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React/Angular/Vue) or Electron-like desktop frameworks.
• Can rally a team, tame a codebase, and defeat an insectoid mini-boss – all before lunch.