Mino Games is on a mission to bring the world together through gaming by building the next $100 Billion franchise.

In the late 2000's, the gaming industry went through a tectonic shift with the release of the App Store. Mino Games was started in 2011 to take advantage of this explosive growth and build the next mega franchise. Since those early days, we’ve built four successful games - Mino Monsters 1 & 2, Cat Game and Dog Game – with each of them generating tens of millions in revenue. Our mega-hit Cat Game has achieved more than 13 Million downloads and is universally loved by our players. We have also built an amazing team along the way.

A Decade later, we see a new tectonic shift happening in gaming. Blockchain and AI promises to change the industry far more than mobile games did – it has unlocked the potential to acquire customers and retain them at low to no costs by connecting developers directly with their community. In 2022, we raised $15 million to double down on our mission from some of the biggest names in gaming and crypto, including Bing Gordon, Don Mattrick, and Standard Crypto.

One of the most important roles we are hiring for right now is a VP of Engineering to join our Engineering team to help us build, manage, and scale that team and its processes. The scope of what we are building will be expansive – we’ll be building crypto games, websites, blockchain contracts and more.

We’re 100% focused on building this next mega franchise, but to make this ambitious future a reality we need the help of the best and brightest minds in the industry. If you are passionate, ambitious, creative and share our vision for the future, come join us. Let's build this together.

🛠 You will

Hire, onboard and train a production ready engineering team.

• Org Design – Design a highly functional engineering org based on your experience building and managing orgs in the past.

• Role Scorecards – Repeatedly create score cards for new roles. To do this well you’ll need to have a deep understanding of the role, the associated contributions, the relationship with other roles in the org.

• Manage interview process – You’ll be the hiring manager on all engineering roles, and responsible for time to hire, funnel metrics, and candidate experience of these roles. You’ll build an interview process that avoids false positives and attracts only the best talent, and have the nuanced judgment of engineering ability and character when filtering candidates.

• Onboarding & Training – You’ll be responsible for building a sophisticated, well documented, consistent and empowering onboarding process that is loved by all engineers who join the company. Engineers will be expected to be a full capacity within the first month

Build an pragmatic, highly effective engineering production process that engineers love

• Remote Processes – work closely with the CTO to implement his vision of streamline development by setting up highly functional “developer focused” workflows that are well suited to remote work. This will include git workflows, RFCs / TDDs, ticketing, scrum or equivalent.

• Interface with Product – you’ll oversee the relationship between product managers / executives and engineering to make sure that engineers are focused, effective and also have the breathing room to do their best work.

• Continuous improvement – you’ll work with the engineers in retrospectives to continually improve their productivity by removing blockers, improving processes, adjusting resource allocation, and addressing root cause of bugs / missed estimates.

• Security – every process and tool that is set up should have rigorous safety standards applied to it.

• QA – you’ll manage the testing of all engineering output such that we deliver high quality, bug free solutions the first time around.

Develop execution strategy and plan to consistently deliver large engineering projects on time and on budget

• Planning – propose well documented, clearly thought through plans for executive review for the development of large scale engineering projects. Communicate the plan to the engineering team and get buy-in.

• Managing budgets – develop budgets, report against budgets, and continually identify areas in which we can save time and money.

• Delivery – build a track record of delivering complex projects on time and on budget.

• Managing Externalities – Production should proceed on time and within budget irrespective of externalities and unforeseen circumstances. Production should have clear contingency plans, and any complexities should be handled without the involvement of executives.

Create and maintain perfect documentation & Decks

• Develop a single source of truth for the engineering team that covers onboarding, documentation, best practices, RFC / TDDs, processes, and open engineering discussions. Confluence should be comprehensive, simple, up to date and see both regular usage and regular contribution from the entire team.

• Build simple decks that clearly and comprehensively communicate important direction / decisions / strategy. These decks should be easily understood by a broad executive audience and create alignment amongst the team.

Build strong Culture & Management

• Cross-functional collaboration – work with other executives and teams to ensure that engineering and other departments are clearly aligned at all times. You will make sure that interactions are productive and clear for everyone involved, without becoming a gatekeeper that bottlenecks productivity.

• Goal Setting – Set clear OKRs and goals for the engineering organization, that are ultimately assigned to individual engineers such that everyone understands their responsibilities. Roll these goals out effectively so that it is bought in and has clarity.

• Performance Review – Thorough biannual performance reviews, manage individuals career paths, promotions, compensation and address and improve low performance. This will involve creating salary scales and assessing engineers individually.

• Team Communication – Ensure that the team is communicating effectively through the right channels, and that important information is being communicated in a timely and documented manner. Communication should be aligned with remote best practices.

• Resource allocation – Ensure that each team member is being tasked with responsibilities that suit them perfectly, keep them engaged, and grow them. Round pegs in round holes.

• Culture – Build a culture of mutual respect, clear and direct communication, proactiveness, and pragmatic but rapid execution amongst the engineering team. The end effect of this will be employee satisfaction

Implement the CTOs technical vision

•  Work closely with CTO to deeply understand and document his technical vision and architectural vision.

• Communicate the vision clearly to the team through documentation and training.

• Bring these ideas into the production pipeline from R&D

Manage Partnerships with third parties, including choosing, negotiating, and where necessary contracting support

• Where necessary, manage relationships, negotiations, processes for third party vendors (AWS etc).

🌟You are 

• Leadership & Management – respected by both the engineers and executives in the company and capable of leading the team through challenging situations. Has a talent for finding and positioning people to grow and succeed.

• Effective Communicator - clearly and frequently communicates with execs & team both written and verbally.

• Proactive – looks to the future to solve problems before they arise, and takes full responsibility for both identifying problems, proposing solutions and rapidly executing

• Candid – no problem having direct but kind conversations with the team when necessary

• Organized & Operational – by default ensures that the team is organized: Documentation, Processes, Communication.

• Judgment – has good judgment in those they hire and lead

💻You have 

•  Has held a position as director of engineering or higher and been promoted repeatedly.

• Shipped multiple successful games in Unity in a remote company.

• Has overseen live operations of growing games.

• Managed teams of over 20 engineers working across multiple projects.

• Scaled a company from 50 to over 200 people and been the hiring manager.

💫We offer

•  Fully Remote: We’re fully remote and offer flexible hours.

• Paid Vacations: We offer 20 days of PTO a year.

• Paid Winter Break: Additional time off at the end of the year for rest and relaxation.

• Holidays: We follow local holidays in Canada. Our international employees get to enjoy those days as holidays as well.

• Flexible Personal & Sick days: Feeling unwell? Not to worry, we got your back!

• Health Insurance: We provide health insurance for all associates no matter where they are.

• Mental Health & Wellness Perks: We provide access to general wellness & mental health products.

• Training: We offer learning and development opportunities to help you continue leveling up.

• Independent Creativity: Mino Games is independent, which means we can be as creative as we want without being limited by client demands!

• Activities: Our Office Happiness Task Force will always surprise you with the team and company-wide surprises and activities.