Release Manager

Join us to redefine gaming technology through cutting-edge innovation and authenticity. As a Release Manager specializing in performance, you'll play a critical role in delivering seamless user experiences for our platform that bridges the physical and digital gaming worlds.

HYBRID: 2 days per week from the office in Warsaw are required

Key Responsibilites:

1.Release Planning

- Define the release roadmap in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and QA teams.

- Develop detailed release plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk assessments.

- Ensure alignment with business goals and technical dependencies.

2. Deployment and Release Execution

- Manage and coordinate deployment processes across environments (development, staging, production). Manage Canary

- Oversee deployment activities, including pre-release testing and post-release validation.

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues during releases, coordinating with relevant teams.

- Plan and execute canary releases, ensuring partial deployment to a subset of users for monitoring and validation before full rollout.

- Implement and oversee red-green deployments, enabling seamless traffic switching between old and new versions to ensure zero downtime and rapid rollback capabilities if needed.

- Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to design automated pipelines for canary and red-green deployments.

- Develop rollback strategies for failed canary or red-green deployments to minimize disruptions and ensure business continuity

3. Monitoring and Validation

- Define Tech/Product success metrics and monitoring criteria for canary and red-green deployments (e.g., error rates, latency, and user feedback) and monitor the health of deployed applications.

4. Process Improvement

-  Establish and maintain release management standards and procedures.

- Identify areas for process improvement and implement best practices to enhance release efficiency and quality.

5. Documentation and Reporting

- Maintain detailed records of release activities, changes, and outcomes.

- Prepare post-release reports, analyzing key metrics to identify successes and areas for improvement.

6. Collaboration with Teams

- Work closely with Product Owners, Project Owners, and Engineering teams to ensure feature readiness.

- Coordinate with DevOps and IT teams to ensure infrastructure readiness for releases.

Qualifications

1. Technical Skills

-  Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.

-  Familiarity with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar.

- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation tools.

- Basic understanding of infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, or GCP).

2. Version Control Proficiency

- Deep understanding of Git workflows (e.g., Git Flow, trunk-based development, feature branching).

-  Experience resolving complex merge conflicts during code integration.

- Ability to manage branching strategies to ensure smooth integration of code changes from multiple teams.

- Oversee tagging and versioning of releases for better traceability and rollback capabilities.

- Work closely with Developers / Team Leads to maintain clean, consistent commit histories.

3. Communication and Collaboration

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

- Strong organizational and multitasking skills to manage multiple releases simultaneously.

4. Problem Solving

- Ability to identify, diagnose, and resolve issues during releases.

- Analytical thinking for process optimization and performance improvements.

5. Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 3–5 years of experience in release management, project management, or a related role.

- Certifications such as CRDM, Scrum Master, or DevOps certifications are a plus.