Engineering Manager

Dive into the pulse of cutting-edge solutions with Patrianna LTD! 🚀
Are you ready to dive into the dynamic world of social gaming and be part of a rapidly expanding team? We’re on the lookout for a talented Engineering Manager (Java) to join our Patrianna LTD team on a full-time basis.

Who We Are

At Patrianna LTD, we’re building a global social entertainment platform, focusing on innovative sports-oriented skill games for the North American market. With a reach of up to 150 million players worldwide, we combine creativity and technical excellence to lead in the dynamic world of social gaming.

Who We’re Looking For:

As the Engineering Manager in Patrianna’s team, you will start by getting deep into the code — not just reviewing it, but actively writing features, debugging issues, and learning the architecture from the inside out. For the first 3+ months, your focus will be hands-on development: understanding our systems, our domain, and how our teams deliver software. This is a critical phase to build credibility, context, and technical ownership before taking on broader leadership responsibilities.

This role is perfect for someone who leads by example — someone who believes that great engineering leadership starts with strong engineering. You’ll collaborate with talented engineers and insightful product managers to deliver customer-centric solutions, and over time, you’ll grow and support high-performing teams that do the same.

If you’re an experienced Java engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, thrives in production environments, and is ready to transition into a leadership role while staying technically grounded — let’s talk.

Responsibilities:

• Be a hands-on technical leader: actively contribute to the codebase (primarily in Java), lead complex feature development, and guide the team through architectural and engineering challenges.
• Own and drive technical decisions: design scalable, maintainable systems; document architecture, lead discussions and reviews with engineers and stakeholders.
• Balance leadership and execution: split your time between coding, designing systems, mentoring engineers, and ensuring delivery aligns with product goals.
• Supervise and participate in planning, people allocation, delivery expectations, and technical initiatives across teams.
• Drive cross-team initiatives like analytical database setup, infrastructure upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Continuously improve engineering practices: enhance CI/CD pipelines, enforce code quality, streamline development processes, etc.
• Maintain technical excellence: reduce technical debt, promote innovation, and ensure systems are secure, performant, and easy to evolve.
• Foster a healthy team culture: encourage ownership, support professional growth, and ensure open, constructive communication.
• Support hiring and performance management: attract top talent, provide continuous feedback and lead performance and compensation reviews with fairness and transparency.
• Celebrate wins and navigate challenges: promote team success, handle setbacks constructively, and keep morale high - even in difficult situations.
• Maintain a healthy team culture: support psychological safety, foster knowledge sharing, and celebrate wins.
• Participate in hiring top engineering talent, making sure every new hire strengthens the team’s capability and culture.

Requirements:Must-Have:

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with deep hands-on expertise in Java and its ecosystem
• Proven system design and architecture skills for scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems
• Strong understanding of JVM internals, memory management, and performance optimization
• Solid experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including query tuning and indexing strategies
• Deep understanding of messaging systems (Kafka preferred) and asynchronous event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with concurrency, multithreading, and non-blocking I/O in Java
• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and web application security principles
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerized deployments, and modern DevOps practices
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident response using tools like Grafana, Kibana, Sentry, or DataDog
• Strong code quality standards with experience in driving code reviews, testing practices, and CI/CD
• Track record of leading engineering teams (2+ teams or 15+ engineers), with a balance of technical leadership and people management
• Strong ownership mindset: ability to make and stand by tough decisions, align the team around priorities, and drive delivery
• Clear, confident communicator in English (Upper-intermediate+) – both technical and cross-functional communication

Would Be a Plus:

• Experience with Ebean, Protobuf,  GCP
• Expertise in high-load systems
• iGaming industry experience
• Experience running company-wide technical initiatives or driving engineering strategy
• Passion for mentoring and growing other senior engineers into leadership roles

Our Tech Stack:

• Java 23 🔥
• Spring Boot 3.4.4 🔥
• Google Cloud Platform:
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
  • Spanner
• Ebean ORM
• Flyway
• Redis
• Quartz
• WebSockets
• Retool
• Test Containers
• Locust for perf testing
• Jenkins/ArgoCD
• ELK/Sentry/Grafana
• Jira/Confluence/Slack/Bitbucket

We offer:

• Modern tech stack
• Fresh, well-maintained codebase featuring high test coverage
• Minimal bureaucracy and fast approval processes
• Ability to work with highly skilled, passionate, and supportive teammates
• Chance to make a global impact by contributing to projects experiencing exponential user growth

Other Benefits

Full Remote Work: Enjoy the flexibility of working remotely from wherever you feel most productive.

Company Events: Engage in our vibrant company culture through a variety of informal events designed to foster camaraderie and teamwork.

Continuously Development: Get an opportunity to join a fast-growing business where the sky’s the limit.