Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager in the Core Gameplay area, you will lead cross-functional engineering teams building systems for Candy Crush Saga, focusing on gameplay enhancement, difficulty adjustment, and level building. Your role involves full ownership of the employee lifecycle, mentoring engineers, managing team throughput, translating product vision into delivery plans, and ensuring teams have the right tools and processes. You will also be accountable for technical choices and contribute to the Tech Strategy and Leadership teams.

Must Have

• Lead cross-functional engineering teams
• Manage employee lifecycle and people processes
• Develop, mentor, and grow engineering specialists
• Manage team throughput and drive continuous improvement
• Translate product vision into clear delivery plans
• Collaborate with tech and product leadership
• Be accountable for technical choices
• Contribute to Tech Strategy and Leadership teams
• Track record of building and leading successful engineering teams
• Empathetic leadership
• Growth mindset and flexibility
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and feedback skills
• Ability to lead engineering teams into making solid technical choices
• Proven teamwork and stakeholder management skills
• Technical background in software engineering
• Practical knowledge and experience with agile practices
• Solid knowledge of modern software delivery techniques

Good to Have

• Experience with developing solutions through external providers

Craft:

Technology & Development

Job Description:

Your role within our Kingdom As an Engineering Manager in Core Gameplay area you will lead cross-functional teams of engineers building systems that enhance gameplay, adjust difficulty and build levels for millions of players of Candy Crush Saga. Our tools are primarily based on (but not limited to) technologies like C++, Java and Web. We believe in: collaboration in a fun & friendly way, being fast & fluid over bureaucracy and staying humble, open and passionate.

Specifically, you’ll

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• Be a line manager for the engineers in your teams, take complete ownership of the employee lifecycle and drive all people related processes
• Lead, develop, mentor, and grow engineering specialists reporting to you
• Manage efficient throughput of your teams and individual engineers and champion a culture of continuous improvement
• Help translate product vision into clear delivery plans and define ways of working
• Collaborate with tech and product leadership to ensure your teams have the right tools, skills, and processes. You will help build, maintain and nurture relationships between product areas and other parts of King, and support teams in delivering value to users
• Be accountable for the way technical choices are being made in your teams
• Contribute to development and execution of the Tech Strategy, and also contribute to the Leadership teams.

Skills to create thrills

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Leadership

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• Track record of building and leading successful engineering teams as an empathetic leader with a passion for people and their success
• Growth mindset and flexibility with a solution- oriented and problem- solving mentality with a can- do attitude
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and feedback skills
• Ability to lead engineering teams into making solid technical choices
• Proven teamwork and stakeholder management skills
• Track record of leading and participating in cross-area and company wide initiatives with the ability to collaborate with stakeholders from various functions

Technical scope

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• Technical background in software engineering (you worked as an engineer before)
• Practical knowledge and experience with agile practices
• Solid knowledge of modern software delivery techniques

Tasty Bonus Skills

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• Experience with developing solutions through external providers

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

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Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Making the World Playful

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Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players – and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

About King

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With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.

We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

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