Miniclip is looking for a Development Lead to hire in our Lisbon (Portugal) Games Development Studio.

This is a high-impact role for an engineering leader with a strong technical foundation, excellent people management skills, and a passion for enabling great teams. If you’re a go-getter, passionate about empowering game development through robust, scalable web technologies - this role is for you!

What will you be doing at Miniclip?

Technical Leadership

• Lead the development of essential web tooling for the Miniclip Group including internal dashboards, LiveOps systems , advertising and analytics platforms, and User Acquisition tools, that support Miniclip’s entire game portfolio
• Occasionally contribute directly to our codebases, in situations where these contributions accelerate the team’s work (e.g.: developing re-usable, enabling faster team execution and improving efficiency)
• Providing technical and architectural guidance on day-to-day development
• Ensuring that the engineering best practices (such as code quality, scalability, maintainability, observability) are reflected in the software developed by the team

People Leadership

• Lead a team of Individual Contributors and Managers, in the development of critical Miniclip’s Group Technology tools and Web Properties
• Delivering on all aspects of people management responsibilities, including regular 1:1´s, continuous feedback, goal setting, performance evaluations, mentoring, career planning aligned to individual goals, fostering a supportive continuous learning, growth-oriented work environment.

Collaboration and Strategy

• Defining the team’s short, mid and long term roadmap, considering each member’s responsibilities, aligning with the different Product Managers
• Contributing to the broader strategy of Group Platform Engineering, alongside, Server, SDK and Quality Engineering teams
• Working closely with game studios and other functional stakeholders to understand needs, align priorities, and remove challenges by providing solutions
• Driving cross functional collaboration and helping break down silos in cross team functions

What are we looking for?

You should have the following skills:

• Passion for building teams, mentoring talent, and delivering business impact through technology
• Proven experience in technical leadership and line management
• Strong background in modern Web technologies (for example, Vue, node.js, TypeScript/javascript, Golang, and others related to the field)
• Familiarity with analytics platforms and observability systems (for example, Google Analytics or Matomo, Datadog or Grafana)
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins pipelines or Github Actions
• Moderate understanding of Source Code management systems, such as git
• Experience with Cloud Platforms, such as AWS or similar
• Ability to design scalable cloud native solutions
• A drive to iterate and improve technical solutions in complex systems
• Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence