Engineering Manager - Games

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

A Little About Us

Within Yahoo Games, our mission is to make games a natural extension of the daily Yahoo experience—easy to discover, fun to play, and rewarding to return to. We are rebuilding Yahoo Games as a modern platform that blends high-quality casual games with strong platform capabilities across desktop and mobile web.

A Lot About You

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager (M4) to lead all engineering efforts within Yahoo Games. In this role, you will oversee a team of full-stack platform engineers and game developers, organizing and scaling engineering to support both game development and platform initiatives across desktop and mobile web.

This is a player-coach role: primarily focused on people leadership, execution, and technical direction, while remaining hands-on when needed. You will serve as the primary technical liaison for third-party game providers as well as key internal partners, ensuring strong technical alignment, smooth integrations, and high-quality outcomes.

Your Day at Yahoo

• Lead and manage all Yahoo Games engineers, including full-stack platform engineers and game developers.

• Organize engineering teams and workflows to support parallel development of games and platform initiatives.

• Act as a player-coach—providing technical guidance, reviewing critical work, and contributing hands-on code when required.

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for third-party game providers and internal partner teams.

• Partner with Product Management, Game Design, Production, and QA to scope, plan, and deliver games and platform features.

• Own engineering execution, delivery quality, and technical outcomes for Yahoo Games.

• Establish and evolve best-in-class engineering practices, standards, and processes.

• Ensure strong collaboration between platform and game engineering workstreams.

• Provide continuous, clear feedback to engineers; set expectations and support growth.

• Hire, onboard, and develop engineering talent as the team scales.

• Identify and proactively resolve technical, delivery, and resourcing risks.

• Communicate technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.

• Champion performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability across the Yahoo Games platform.

You Must Have

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience, with multiple years managing engineering teams.

• Experience leading mixed teams of engineers with varied skill sets and seniority.

• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining web applications using TypeScript.

• Experience with modern front-end and back-end frameworks (e.g., React, Node.js).

• Experience architecting systems that support third-party integrations and external partners.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development and close collaboration with Product and Design.

• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, and release management.

• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Postgres) and message queues (e.g., SQS).

• Proven ability to balance people leadership, technical depth, and execution.

• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.

• Curiosity, bias for action, and a customer-first mindset.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on games or interactive consumer products.

• Familiarity with browser-based game development and performance considerations.

• Experience supporting both first-party development and third-party integrations.

• Experience scaling engineering organizations within growing product teams.

• Experience using AI Tools such as Claude Code, VS Studio, Cursor or similar

Why This Role Is Different

• You’ll own engineering across both platform and games, not just a single team.

• You’ll shape how Yahoo Games is built, integrated, and scaled.

• You’ll act as the technical backbone for internal teams and external partners.

• You’ll work on a product with massive built-in distribution and real player impact.

The material job duties and responsibilities of this role include those listed above as well as adhering to Yahoo policies; exercising sound judgment; working effectively, safely and inclusively with others; exhibiting trustworthiness and meeting expectations; and safeguarding business operations and brand integrity.

At Yahoo, we offer flexible hybrid work options that our employees love! While most roles don’t require regular office attendance, you may occasionally be asked to attend in-person events or team sessions. You’ll always get notice to make arrangements. Your recruiter will let you know if a specific job requires regular attendance at a Yahoo office or facility. If you have any questions about how this applies to the role, just ask the recruiter!

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The compensation for this position ranges from $128,250.00 - $266,875.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience.The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, a great 401k, backup childcare, education stipends and much (much) more.

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