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About the Role

The Core Technology group identifies and solves common company-wide problems. We seek individuals who thrive on challenges, enjoy fast-paced environments, and take ownership of products. If you are passionate about the game industry and implementing innovative features, join our team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers through consistent 1:1s, career mapping, and performance coaching to build a high-trust, high-output culture.
• Own and refine the technical development process, helping engineering staff optimize daily output by establishing clear standards and workflows.
• Champion high-quality habits like TDD, AI-augmented development, and documentation-as-code.
• Cultivate a culture of rigorous, constructive feedback through code reviews and design discussions for mentorship.
• Lead internal-first projects such as tech debt reduction, architectural refactors, and API standardization.
• Participate in architecture reviews and coach engineers to ensure high standards of performance and code quality.

Requirements

• 3+ years managing/leading engineering teams with a track record of fostering psychological safety and technical growth.
• Background building backend services in modern languages (Java or Golang) with depth to provide meaningful feedback and mentorship on microservice architecture, API design, and implementation on a large-scale platform.
• Proven ability to implement technical standards and development workflows that increase team velocity without adding bureaucratic "red tape".
• Experience working closely with Product and Program teams to turn complex technical challenges into prioritized, well-scoped solutions.
• Ability to balance business feature demands with the engineering needs of a healthy, modern codebase.
• Hands-on experience with low-latency systems and massive-scale backend online services infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and a working knowledge of their core services.

Skills

• Java
• Golang
• Microservice architecture
• API design
• TDD
• AI-augmented development
• Documentation-as-code
• Low-latency systems
• AWS
• GCP

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 3+ years managing/leading engineering teams

About the Company

• 2K creates iconic and culture-shaping video games, including NBA® 2K, BioShock®, Borderlands®, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization®, XCOM®, WWE® 2K, TopSpin®, and PGA TOUR® 2K.
• Our portfolio is brought to life by studios like Visual Concepts, Firaxis Games, Hangar 13, Cat Daddy Games, 31st Union, Cloud Chamber, Gearbox, HB Studios, and 2K SportsLab.
• We believe the best ideas come from teams that feel empowered, supported, and inspired.
• We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace where people are encouraged to come as they are and do their best work.

Equal Opportunity

• As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.
• 2K Games and its studios never use instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.