EngineeringManager

Who are we? StoryToys is a Top-Ten children’s app creator, delivering a suite of apps for children between the ages of 2 and 8. We work with the world’s biggest entertainment IP, translating their loved characters to a digital world. We publish worldwide, in 26 languages with monthly active users in the millions. We are based in Dublin, Ireland but work with a large global team. We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a growing distributed team of engineers in building and maintaining mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms. As Engineering Manager, you will have a key role in shaping the future of our products and leading a team towards success. Responsibilities: Lead and coach a team of highly-skilled Unity engineers, ensuring that they are motivated, productive, and producing high-quality work. Recruit, interview, and hire strong engineering candidates, and guide their onboarding, training, and mentoring. Regularly meet with your team members individually, evaluate their performance, provide feedback on work goals, and help guide their career development. You’ll have excellent technical principles which you will use to elevate and nurture the people around you, providing your engineering team with architectural guidance and functional coaching to ensure the highest quality output. Implement best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance. Champion and lead the creation of effective, timely, and up-to-date documentation to aid in research and development, and prevent the loss of institutional knowledge. Strike the imperative balance between ensuring that engineering objectives and priorities are being met, whilst also focusing on commercial needs in terms of value, quality and delivery targets. Understand organizational pain points and identify strategies to take action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities. Communicate technical matters to internal and external stakeholders to ali