# Engineering Manager at Scorewarrior

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- **Company:** Scorewarrior (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/scorewarrior)
- **Location:** Cyprus
- **Work arrangement:** On-site
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 5–10 years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** Backend Engineering, Engineering Management, System Design, Stream Processing, Event-Driven Architecture, Hiring and Scaling Teams, Performance Management, Build vs Buy Analysis, Technical Roadmap Planning, AI-Driven Deflection, Content Moderation, Risk Management, Compliance, Vendor Management, Operational Efficiency, Code Review
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-07-07
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-07-08
- **Status:** May no longer be active (posted more than 60 days ago)
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scorewarrior/63a6cc1e-36c7-4913-8e17-da668b63dcde (the employer's own application page)
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## About the role

Responsibilities:
- Lead the creation and scaling of the Player Care engineering function; act as the final technical authority for the domain.
- Partner with the Head of Player Care to audit existing systems and define a prioritized technology roadmap.
- Remove SPOFs and build a lean, high-throughput backend pod via metrics-driven hiring and strong onboarding.
- Design and ship event-driven triage pipelines, AI-driven deflection, chat moderation/inference pipelines and fraud automation.
- Implement diagnostics, automation and workflow modernisation to improve agent efficiency and operational throughput.
- Ensure regulatory compliance and manage technological risk across Player Care systems.

Requirements:
- Several years of backend engineering leadership with hands-on system design and experience scaling teams from 1→N.
- Proven experience with stream processing and event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, BullMQ, Redis Streams or equivalent).
- Strong SQL skills and practical experience modernising live-ops, moderation or fraud-detection systems at scale.
- Track record of building high-availability services, automation and performance optimisation in production.
- Excellent stakeholder communication, hiring experience, and the ability to set technical direction without higher engineering management.

## Responsibilities

Establish and scale the Player Care engineering function by building a high-throughput automation and backend team. Lead the design of AI-driven deflection mechanisms, chat moderation pipelines, and automated fraud detection systems.

## Requirements

Requires a strong backend engineering background with several years of experience managing and scaling engineering teams from the ground up. Must be proficient in event-driven architectures and capable of acting as the final technical authority without a CTO.

## FAQ

- **Is this Engineering Manager role still open?** It was posted on 2026-07-07. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Scorewarrior's site before applying.
- **Does Scorewarrior offer visa sponsorship?** This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Scorewarrior's site.
- **Where is this role located?** The listing gives the location as Cyprus. It is marked on-site.
- **What skills does this role ask for?** The listing names: Backend Engineering, Engineering Management, System Design, Stream Processing, Event-Driven Architecture, Hiring and Scaling Teams, Performance Management, Build vs Buy Analysis, Technical Roadmap Planning, AI-Driven Deflection, Content Moderation, Risk Management, Compliance, Vendor Management, Operational Efficiency, Code Review.

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