Product Manager - Mobile Application - Mobile Gaming Startup

PRODUCT MANAGER - PLATFORM

Our story:

We are a mobile gaming start-up with an ambitious vision - - Making India Play!- Our small (but rapidly growing) and super-talented team of artists and engineers are crafting deeply culturalised and highly addictive games for mobile-first Indians. Over the next few years, more than 500 million Indians will buy their first smartphone and start their journey into immersive game-worlds. And we want to shape this journey.

With our first game crossing 3 million downloads in 1 year of launch and peaking at 1 Million MAU, we've proven our ability to think local but execute at global standards. We believe that great games start with compelling content (think strong cultural references, colourful characters and bustling locales) and then need cutting-edge technology to make it alive. Our team is combining rich storytelling with lean physics engines, ethnographic insights with complex user analytics, new monetisation models with strong business acumen to develop more games across genres and audiences. We are backed by some of the finest investors in the business including India's leading seed investor Blume Ventures, a leading Chinese VC and a leading Indian VC.

Why we need you:

With our first game crossing 3 million downloads and more games in the pipeline, we're looking to add an experienced product manager to set up our mobile platform team. As the first PM in the team, you'll be responsible for developing and scaling key services and features that will power all our games (our roadmap is very ambitious!). This is a generalist, full-stack role - you will be expected to work across back-end services and client-side mobile apps.

Though our games are highly localised, our engineering team aims to create world-class games, services and infrastructure. So you will need to have the technical mindset, rigour in execution and loads of passion to raise the bar further. You will need to understand long-term business/product requirements, evaluate technical choices and then architect, build and run our mobile platform that should scale to 1+ million DAUs! As a core member ofthe engineering team, the Lead will also be expected to grow and manage the platform team as well as collaborate closely with the Game Design, Product and Growth teams.

Come, help us build phenomenal games at Mech Mocha! #MakeinIndia #MakeforIndia #MakeIndiaPlay

What you'll do:

- Work across back-end services and mobile apps in a generalist, full-stack role . Lead the conception, design,development, testing and deployment of key services and features across all our games

- Build from ground up - multiplayer, social experiences, user intelligence, pricing, payments and ad-tech

- Develop client-side components of these features on Android and iOS

- Take responsibility for delivering a high quality and engaging experience for our players

- Monitor, enrich and scale these systems as players go from 0 to many 0s for all our games

- Design and develop technology infrastructure such as continuous integration and build automation

- Collaborate closely with Game Design, Product and Growth teams

- Be both technical and managerial - from writing code and running architecture discussions to recruiting engineers and mentoring them

- Focus on speed without sacrificing quality - even our biggest projects are prototyped, scoped tightly and developed incrementally

What we're looking for:

- 4+ years of experience building online applications and services including at least 1 year focused on mobile

- Solid knowledge of the mobile full-stack: mobile client, back-end, databases, caches, push notifications, etc.

- Strong fundamentals in API/services development and solving for high availability, scalability and performance

- Familiarity with building Android or iOS apps

- Expert in at least one popular scripting language such as Python, Ruby or JavaScript (Node.js)

- A deep sense of ownership and collaboration - take initiative, work hard, learn and unlearn, communicate clearly, be nice and have fun!

Bonus points for:

- Experience with optimizing database performance and scaling

- Any exposure to game development, especially with the Unity3D game engine

- Experience with Data Engg and Recommender Systems is a plus

- 1+ years of managerial experience - recruiting, mentoring or project management

- Experience at an online consumer or entertainment company

PS: We absolutely do NOT require experience at a gaming company or that you even be a gamer. We do require a playful attitude :)

What we offer:

- Create truly local mobile entertainment for your friends, family and millions of Indians; get a shot at redefining the gaming industry

- Solve tough problems with a bunch of passionate and talented colleagues. And one happy dog - Yoda says woof!

- Work in an iterative and outcome-driven culture - our team aims to create impact, not just ship features

- A cosy, sun-drenched office in HSR Layout, Bangalore with all 3 meals

- Get inspired at - Friday Power Sessions- talks by awesome founders, builders and artists every fortnight. And unwind on Friday's game nights - - Tu Mafia hai!-

- Swag worth bragging about: beefed-up MacBook Pro, latest Android phone and an unlimited library budget

- Competitive salary and significant equity - we know building a great company is a multiplayer effort