Engineering Manager - Gaming
Legend is hiring an Engineering Manager lead our Reno squad in our Gaming pillar, focused on building and scaling community experiences for our customers. This is a hands-on, highly technical EM role: you’ll split your time between leading and growing engineers and staying close to the code and architecture. You’ll partner closely with Product to shape the roadmap, respond to user feedback, and iterate quickly to build a community platform from the ground up. At Legend, we’re product-led and community-driven and you’ll benefit with a strong Engineering Manager community to learn from and contribute to. In this role, we value diverse perspectives and encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed.
- Lead & inspire a high-performing squad , fostering a positive and collaborative culture while driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Be the technical anchor guiding architecture and engineering decisions, especially while mentoring and supporting your team.
- Build community-first products solving complex problems delivering features that improve user engagement and retention.
- Drive delivery in a product-led environment running effective agile ceremonies, managing expectations, and turning ambiguity into execution.
- Partner with stakeholders proactively , working cross-functional teams — including product management, content, design, SEO, and delivery — to ensure alignment and effective communication.
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager (or a very senior engineer with significant leadership scope) in a product environment.
- Experience building “community platform” style products is a plus.
- Strong hands-on capability with modern technologies — ideally React and Next.js and Node on the backend. (Experience with TypeScript, PHP and CMS like Contentful is a plus).
- Ability to still get in to the weeds & change code with confidence leading technical direction — this role requires you to balance your managerial focus and technical abilities to fully support the team.
- Strong communicator with a track record of effective collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of best engineering practices, including testing, pair programming, documentation, and code reviews
- Starting salary from 4500 EUR per month.
- Super smart colleagues to work alongside and learn from, with company-wide team-building events twice a year, including great entertainment, catering, and accommodation in a beautiful hotel.
- Engaging development opportunities at all levels.
- Tailored flexibility for your work-life balance.
- Exciting global Legend events, where we unite in person to ignite our shared passion and unveil the exciting strategies for the year ahead!
- Unlock your full potential by joining the Legend team. To support you on this journey, we provide an extensive array of benefits and perks, as outlined in our global offerings above. For country specific benefits please reach out to your talent partner.
Welcome to Legend, the home of next-level player experience. We're pioneering the way that people, explore, play and bet on what they love. The engine behind 25+ world-class brands in Sports & Gaming. Join a 800+ global team, across 10 global hubs, confidently growing world-leading brands. Driven by data, creativity and collaboration, we move fast, learn constantly and deliver excellence at scale. Our formula to becoming the ‘MVP’ in Sports & Gaming = Mindset. Vision. Performance. Legend is a place where high-performers thrive. Where we win as one and celebrate together. If you're ready to raise the bar, we want to meet you.