[Hiring] Team Lead - GameFabric (Multiplayer Servers) @marbis GmbH

Role Description

You will lead the engineering team behind GameFabric's Multiplayer Servers platform - the core product that game studios from indie to AAA rely on to orchestrate, scale, and operate their multiplayer game server fleets in production. This is a leadership role with a strong technical foundation. You own your team's delivery, drive technical decisions together with your senior engineers, and translate product priorities into a plan the team can execute against with confidence.

GameFabric is a developer-first multiplayer server orchestration platform built on Agones, Kubernetes, and a hybrid bare-metal-plus-cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud and BYOC). The platform is API-first with a dedicated Terraform provider, and is used in production by game studios shipping titles at scale.

You will report directly to the Head of B2B, who owns GameFabric end-to-end - including its technical direction - and reports to the CTO. This means a short path between business goals, product priorities, and engineering execution, and a leadership counterpart who is deeply technical and engages directly on architecture and trade-offs.

You will lead a team of five experienced engineers (three backend, two frontend) and collaborate closely with peer teams across SRE, SteelShield, Customer Success, and Product.

Your mission

• Lead and develop a team of experienced engineers - running healthy manager fundamentals (1:1 cadence, feedback, growth conversations) and creating an environment of clear expectations and accountability.
• Own delivery for your team end-to-end: convert priorities into an executable plan, manage scope and dependencies, surface risks early, and keep delivery predictable.
• Translate OKRs and business priorities into a clear technical plan for your team.
• Drive technical decisions together with your senior engineers, and act as a credible technical counterpart in design discussions.
• Ensure technical feasibility, dependencies, and scope are validated before sprint commitment.
• Drive alignment with Product, SRE, SteelShield, and Customer Success - proactively identifying and resolving cross-team dependencies before they block delivery.
• Establish and uphold engineering standards: definition of ready, release readiness, code review.
• Communicate delivery status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and across teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in a complex technical environment.
• Solid working knowledge of distributed systems and modern cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes-based environments, container orchestration).
• Track record of converting product input into structured engineering work.
• Demonstrated ability to own delivery outcomes end-to-end.
• Experience translating priorities and objectives into team plans and managing them through to delivery.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go (our primary backend language).
• Background in multiplayer, real-time, or other latency-sensitive systems.
• Experience working closely with SRE or platform teams.
• Experience with API-first products and developer tooling.

Benefits

• Gaming at Heart: We provide free Nitrado Game Servers for gamers and a welcoming community for anyone who wants to feel at home.
• Flexible working hours: Tailor your work hours to your personal needs for a better work-life balance.
• Remote work: Our agile teams collaborate seamlessly from their preferred location.
• Work from Abroad: Extend your workspace beyond national borders with our support for remote work from abroad.
• Mental Health: We support your mental well-being with our annual Mental Health Day.
• Physical Health: Our office infrastructure provides state-of-the-art workspaces with ergonomic design.
• Professional Development: Utilize training opportunities to develop and stay current with your skills.
• Company Pension Plan: We support your financial security for the future with an attractive contribution.
• Working Environment: You'll experience a respectful and friendly workplace culture.
• Vacation and Paid Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of vacation and additional paid leave for special occasions.
• International Collaboration: We successfully overcome time zones and language barriers.
• Social Activities: Strengthen your commitment and team cohesion through team-building events.
• Long-Term Stability: With over two decades of experience, we are a reliable employer.
• Get together: Work hard, play hard - We come together twice a year for our company celebrations.
• Modern Workspaces: Our office infrastructure offers state-of-the-art workspaces with ergonomic design.
• Corporate Culture and Values: You become part of a positive corporate culture that embraces values such as diversity and inclusion.