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.

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love-from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming, and news-through trusted products, content, and technology that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform that helps businesses amplify growth and build meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

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.

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.

• 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 work streams.
• 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.

• 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 Type Script.
• 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/No
  
  SQL databases (e.g., Dynamo
  
  DB, 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.

• Experience working on games or interactive consumer products.
• Familiarity with browser‑based game…