Lead the Player Experience engineering team at Immutable, guiding them in building web3 game onboarding systems and enhancing user engagement.
About Us 🚀
Immutable is the world’s fastest-growing game platform, built to power the next generation of games. We aim to drive the next evolution of gaming, combining performance, digital ownership and cutting-edge technology to help games grow and succeed. At the intersection of AI-driven analytics, high-performance growth tools, and seamless digital ownership, our technology helps studios attract, engage, and scale player communities across both Web2 and Web3.
Founded in 2018, Immutable is one of Australia’s fastest companies to reach unicorn status, raising more than AUD $400M+ with a valuation of AUD $3.5B. Today, more than 700 games are building on Immutable, and industry leaders like Ubisoft have chosen us as their partner for the future of gaming.
Over 6 million players use Immutable Passport, our unified identity enabling frictionless cross-game experiences, and our Immutable Audience platform has become the fastest-growing SaaS product line in our history. We're scaling rapidly, backed by a global team of creators, engineers, and gamers united by one mission: to build the most valuable growth layer in gaming and redefine how games launch, scale, and succeed. 🚀
About The Role 🤔:
As the Engineering Manager for our Immutable Play platform, you will serve as a thoughtful and driven technical leader, thriving in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
This high-impact role involves leading the squad responsible for developing play.immutable.com, the primary gateway for players to discover games. You will guide a diverse team, including Product Manager, Data Scientist, Product Designers, and Engineers, focusing on redefining how players discover, onboard, and engage both Web2 and Web3 games.
We are seeking an AI native leader who is passionate about building empowered teams, excited to shape the future of gaming. The team's core focus will be on rapid iteration, scaling player acquisition tools, and delivering a world-class product that motivates players to discover games they love and inspires them to sign up and return.
You'll Be Empowered To 🎮
- Lead and Innovate: Own the end-to-end player journey. Lead and develop the teams responsible for Immutable Play, guiding them to experiment and ship high-impact features.
- Ensure Delivery Excellence: Establish and enforce best practices for delivery velocity, guaranteeing the high-quality execution of the product roadmap.
- Cultivate High Performance: Foster a culture of high performance, autonomy, and accountability, enabling the team to iterate and learn quickly.
- Drive Technical Strategy: Define the technical evolution of our platform, including onboarding and developing smart matchmaking systems to boost player acquisition and activation. Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data counterparts to define strategy and deliver outstanding user outcomes.
- Mentor and Grow Talent: Coach and grow engineers through consistent feedback, mentorship, and career development planning.
- Passionate about AI technology with a strong interest in exploring AI-powered development tools and understanding AI product design principles
- Demonstrated interest in AI products and emerging technologies
We'd Love You To Bring 🤝
- Leadership & Development: At least 2 years of experience leading high-performing software engineering teams, including a deep commitment to coaching, career development, and conducting performance reviews.
- Technical Expertise: A strong full-stack engineer with up-to-date, hands-on experience in system design build and scaling products, proficient in technologies such as React, TypeScript, Go.
- Strong use of AI tools to assist development, strong understanding AI design principles and application
- Proactive LLM usage, clear articulation of where AI meaningfully improves workflows and product. Not surface-level.
- Product & Mindset: A builder's mindset with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, consumer-facing products. Must have a customer-centric approach and a passion for solving real user problems, ideally within a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment.
- Led zero-to-one product development in a founding or early startup environment
- Previous experience building products that engage audiences, intelligent marketing campaigns, automated workflows and scalable customer centric products with AI features.
- Excellent communication skills and the proven ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
Bonus Points For ✅
- A strong interest in gaming or relevant experience within the gaming ecosystem.
- Familiarity with Web3 concepts, technologies, and applications.
*Due to the holiday period, we will not be screening incoming applications before January 5th - we will contact candidates after that date. Thanks for understanding and happy holidays!
We are proud of the benefits that we offer for all of our employees globally.
Here is a snapshot 😊
Attracting the best global talent
💸 We commit to paying globally competitive base salaries and contributions to a long-term fund
📊 Sharing our products' success through Employee Stock Options ESOP
🌟 Our flexible working model blends the best of both worlds: Sydney-based employees enjoy hybrid 3 days a week in our vibrant head office, while remote team members can work from home or utilise access to global office hubs via a WeWork All-Access pass
🥘 Lunch is ordered fresh every day in our friendly office in Sydney CBD
🎉 Quarterly End of Cycle Celebration Awards and Dinner
💻 USD $500 WFH allowance to set up your home office
☎️ USD $600 per annum to put toward your internet and phone usage.
🥳 USD $75 per quarter for remote employees to celebrate with local team members
⛑️ We also support our US Employees with Medical and 401K Insurance
🚘 Our Australian Employees can avail of Novated Leasing, save money by paying for your car using pre & post-tax dollars
Levelling up your growth
🌱 We offer up to USD $1,350 per annum for any classes, courses or events to support your growth and development
📚 Enjoy access to free online courses via Udemy
Helping you thrive
💆🏽♀️ Enjoy USD $800 per year to put toward your health and wellbeing
🤗 Get 24/7 access to unlimited counselling for you and your family when you need it through our EAP Service
🎁 Monthly subsidy and discounted rate with ClassPass, including a 1-year free membership to Breethe
Leave when you need it the most:
👨👧👦 New parents receive 12 weeks of paid leave in our gender-neutral offer. The birthing parent also gets an additional 6 weeks of leave for rest and recovery leading up to and after birth. We also offer Miscarriage Leave and extra leave for IVF treatments
🌟 Enjoy 2 additional paid annual leave days at the end of the year
🎂 Birthday you get a paid day off
Additional Information:
Immutable is committed to building and fostering an inclusive, diverse workplace. We believe in incorporating everyone's perspectives and experiences as this has been a significant driver of our success so far.
We are a 2026 Circle Back Initiative Employer. This means a human reviews every application and we commit to responding to every applicant.
*A note to recruitment agencies: Our internal team has this role covered, so there is no need to reach out - We don't accept unsolicited agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you!
Join us in shaping the future of gaming!
Top Skills
Go
React
Typescript
Immutable Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
King St, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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