Engineering Manager, Notifications

About This Opportunity

Our talent team is representing a confidential gaming platform in their search for an Engineering Manager to lead their Notifications infrastructure team. This is a remote-first opportunity open to candidates anywhere in the world.

You'll be joining a Growth-focused engineering organization where you'll lead a full-stack team responsible for the platform and infrastructure that powers notifications reaching hundreds of millions of users. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll balance building scalable systems with driving user re-engagement and retention.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of full-stack engineers building and operating notifications platform infrastructure including Elixir services, Python backends, pubsub pipelines, and Kubernetes
• Set technical direction for notifications infrastructure and ensure systems scale reliably as volume and complexity grow
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Marketing stakeholders to define and execute the notifications roadmap
• Use experimentation and metrics to drive continuous improvement in notification engagement, retention, and long-term user trust
• Build a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and instilling engineering best practices
• Partner with platform consumers across the organization to evolve the primitives other teams depend on
• Collaborate with engineering leadership on strategic planning and organizational improvement

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant time building and operating backend or infrastructure systems at scale
• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• Comfort owning production systems built on technologies like Elixir, Python, pubsub/streaming pipelines, and Kubernetes, with strong intuition for reliability, throughput, and cost at scale
• Experience collaborating closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to define and ship solutions
• Track record of growing engineers and helping team members succeed
• Strong ownership mindset—you stay close to technical decisions and can discuss them in depth
• Ability to drive a culture of 80/20 thinking, fast iteration, and high-quality delivery

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience leading teams that own shared platforms or primitives consumed by other engineering teams
• Experience shipping push notifications or other re-engagement systems at consumer scale, including familiarity with deliverability, throttling, and policy considerations
• Full-stack experience across both frontend and backend development
• Strong track record of driving measurable impact through experimentation and data-driven decision making
• Demonstrated success driving engagement and long-term retention through messaging or re-engagement surfaces
• Understanding of the gaming industry

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your background and conduct an initial screening conversation. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. We ask that you do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication should flow through our team to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Pay details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive with market rates for this level of experience and responsibility.

Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and provide reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. Please let your recruiter know if you need any accommodations.