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# Engineering Manager, Backend at Scopely

- **Company:** Scopely
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scopely/jobs/5347395008?gh_jid=5347395008

## Job description

Scopely is looking for an Engineering Manager, Backend (Gaming) 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 the teams overseeing the systems that power live game configuration, blueprint and content delivery, feature controls, and the backend runtime that serves core gameplay and live operations at scale. You will be accountable for team health, technical execution, operational excellence, and cross-functional delivery across a complex live-service ecosystem, ensuring that tools used by designers and live-ops teams translate safely and reliably into production game behavior.

- Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for both Game Backend and Live Tools, including coaching, performance management, hiring, and career development
- Own delivery across two tightly connected domains: the internal content/configuration platform and the live backend services that power player-facing gameplay systems
- Drive execution for systems that manage blueprints, game configuration, live-ops content, server controls, A/B testing, segmentation, and feature rollout workflows
- Partner closely with product, design, analytics, QA, and operations to plan and deliver live-service features, events, and tooling improvements
- Ensure strong operational rigor across backend services, including reliability, performance, observability, incident response, and production readiness
- Guide technical direction for a large Python/Django ecosystem built on Redis, DynamoDB, async job processing, and blueprint-driven runtime behavior
- Oversee the health of deployment and publishing flows that move data between services, including blueprint packaging, environment promotion, caching, and rollout safety
- Help the team balance short-term live-ops responsiveness with long-term platform investments, code health, and system maintainability
- Establish clear engineering processes for planning, prioritization, estimation, quality, release management, and cross-team coordination
- Partner with senior engineers and tech leads on architecture, technical risk management, and modernization opportunities across legacy and live production systems
- Create strong feedback loops with stakeholders who depend on internal tools, ensuring design, content, and live-ops workflows are efficient, safe, and scalable
- Support live-service excellence by leading incident reviews, improving operational playbooks, and hardening systems that directly affect player experience

## What We’re Looking For

- Experience Technical Skills
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 1+ years of people management or technical team leadership experience
- Proven experience managing backend or platform teams supporting live-service products, game services, or other high-availability systems
- Demonstrated success leading through ambiguity, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and delivering across multiple parallel workstreams
- Strong people-management skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and building healthy, accountable engineering culture
- Experience balancing execution, technical quality, and long-term platform evolutionin a fast-moving product environment
- Strong backend engineering foundation, ideally in Python and Django or similarly large service-oriented web platforms
- Solid understanding of live backend systems, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, caching, asynchronous processing, and operational tooling
- Hands-on familiarity with Redis, DynamoDB, and data models used in performance-sensitive, high-throughput applications
- Experience with systems that manage configuration, feature flags, experiments, content pipelines, or blueprint/data-driven runtime behavior
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and service operations, especially AWS-based environments and supporting developer workflows
- Ability to partner credibly in architecture and debugging discussions involving reliability, scale, release safety, and production incidents
- Experience improving engineering practices around testing, deployment, observability, code review, and maintainability in large shared codebases
- Cross-Functional and Domain Knowledge
- Experience supporting internal tools used by non-engineering teams such as game design, live-ops, economy design, QA, or analytics
- Strong understanding of how backend systems, admin tools, and content pipelines work together to power live events, gameplay tuning, and player-facing experiences
- Experience with A/B testing, segmentation, rollout controls, or live configuration systems is strongly preferred
- Comfortable partnering across technical and non-technical functions to translate product and operational needs into durable engineering solutions
- Experience in mobile games, live-service games, or game-adjacent backend/platform environments is highly preferred
- Soft Skills & Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to align engineers, stakeholders, and leadership around priorities, tradeoffs, and outcomes
- Pragmatic, organized, and highly accountable, with a strong sense of ownership for both team effectiveness and production quality
- Passion for games, live operations, and building systems that help teams ship better player experiences safely and efficiently

## 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/.

Notice to Candidates: Scopely will never request payment or financial information during the application or hiring process. Please apply only through our official [website](http://scopely.com) and verify that all Talent Partner communications come from an email address ending in @[scopely.com](http://scopely.com).

Should you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact recruiting@scopely.com. Our job applicant privacy policies are available here: [California Privacy Notice](https://www.scopely.com/en/job-applicant-privacy-notice-for-ca-residents) and [EEA/UK Privacy Notice](https://www.scopely.com/en/eea-and-uk-job-applicant-privacy-notice).

Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

## About Scopely

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to top-grossing titles like MONOPOLY GO!, Star Trek Fleet Command, and Pokémon GO.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of Savvy Games Group, acquired in 2023 for $4.9B)
- **Headquarters**: Culver City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Walter Driver, Ankur Bulsara, Eytan Elbaz, Eric Futoran

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Mobile video game development and publishing
- **Target Customers**: B2C (mass-market mobile gamers globally, free-to-play model)
- **Mission/Purpose**: "Inspire Play, Every Day" — expanding the possibilities of play through game experiences that aim to inspire community, connection, and competition.

## Products & Services
- **MONOPOLY GO!**: Top-grossing mobile board game adaptation; flagship title driving majority of revenue.
- **Pokémon GO**: Augmented reality mobile game (acquired via Niantic acquisition in 2025).
- **Star Trek Fleet Command**: Strategy MMO mobile game based on the Star Trek franchise.
- **Stumble Guys**: Massively multiplayer party knockout game (similar to Fall Guys).
- **MARVEL Strike Force**: Squad-based RPG featuring Marvel characters.
- **Yahtzee With Buddies**: Social dice game; part of the "With Buddies" franchise.
- **Scrabble GO**: Digital version of the classic word game.
- **WWE Champions**: Wrestling-themed card-collecting RPG.
- **Pikmin Bloom & Monster Hunter Now**: AR mobile games acquired via Niantic.
- **Other titles**: Bingo Bash, Tiki Solitaire TriPeaks, Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem, Campfire, Wayfarer.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Acquired by Savvy Games Group in April 2023 for $4.9 billion.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$1.5 billion** (2024 estimate). Total funding of $998.7M prior to acquisition.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Savvy Games Group (parent), NewView Capital, Horizons Ventures, Greenspring Associates, Techstars.
- **Growth Signals**: Ranked **#1 mobile game maker in the U.S.** and **#2 globally** by revenue as of 2024. Named a **TIME100 Most Influential Companies**. Over 15 acquisitions completed, including the massive Niantic games business in 2025. Headcount of **2,377 employees** growing at +0.5% monthly with 239 active job postings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive IP Portfolio**: Owns or operates some of the most valuable mobile game IPs in the world (Pokémon, MONOPOLY, Marvel, Star Trek).
- **Scale & Reach**: Operates in 30+ countries with 21 offices across 9 countries; truly global development and publishing footprint.
- **Proven M&A Engine**: Demonstrated ability to acquire, integrate, and scale studios (Niantic, GSN Games, Digit Game Studios) — a core strategic moat.
- **Data-Driven Development**: Heavy investment in analytics, performance marketing, and live operations to maximize player lifetime value.
- **Savvy Games Group Backing**: Backed by the $4.9B acquisition by Savvy, providing deep financial resources and strategic autonomy.

## Strategic Focus
- **Live Service Excellence**: Deep focus on live operations, player engagement, and long-term retention for existing titles.
- **Global Expansion**: Continued hiring and office growth in key markets (Spain, India, UK, Canada, Mexico).
- **AI & Data**: Investing heavily in data science, analytics engineering, and anti-cheat/player safety technologies.
- **New Game Development**: Actively building new titles across multiple genres, leveraging both original IP and licensed brands.
- **Post-Acquisition Integration**: Smoothly integrating Niantic's games, teams, and technology into the Scopely ecosystem.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a place where "creators, dreamers, and pioneers" work, with a strong emphasis on mutual respect and mindfulness. Employees are called "Scopeleans."
- **Awards**: Named a **Top 100 Best Workplace for Innovators**, **Best Places to Work in LA**, and **Built In Best Places to Work**.
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Offices in 21 locations across 9 countries (US, Spain, UK, India, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Portugal, China, Singapore). Large engineering hubs in Barcelona, Culver City, and India.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy investment in tech roles (581 employees in Technical departments). Roles include Senior Front End Engineer, Staff Engineer (Server), Director of Data (Analytics Engineering), and Director of Player Safety & Anti-Cheat.
- **Compensation & Ratings**: Glassdoor rating of **3.7/5** (499 reviews) with compensation rated 3.7/5 and culture rated 3.6/5. Example salary: Creative Director ~$177K/year, Deployment Project Manager ~$98K/year.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Rapidly growing company (+0.5% monthly headcount growth) with 239 open roles, offering significant career advancement potential in a top-tier mobile gaming company.

## Sources
1. [scopely.com](https://www.scopely.com/en)
2. [scopely.com - Life at Scopely](https://www.scopely.com/en/life-at-scopely)
3. [careers.scopely.com](https://careers.scopely.com/us/en/home)
4. [linkedin.com - Scopely](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/scopely)

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