Engineering Manager, Game Backend Framework | Shared Technology

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Job Description:

Are you a natural connector who thrives when developing great people and teams? How about working with a high performing backend software team that provides the foundation for sweet games enabling a wonderful experience for 260 million players?

The Game Backend Framework is all about Java and scalability, supporting games like Candy Crush, which means handling millions of requests per second to our game servers. As our games and tech evolve together with new business challenges we also have to ensure our people and teams are set up for success. This is where you come into play!

Your role within our Kingdom

This team is responsible for the heart of the Game backends, a fine tuned and high performance Java based platform that makes it easy to build and run game backends at scale. Our devotion is to the game teams and to provide a smooth developer experience enabling them to continuously evolve our games. We also deeply care about our players, making sure our games run reliably and continue to provide a world class experience of fun to millions of players every day. 

As our sparkling new Engineering Manager, you will inspire and empower the talents in your team,  enable them to excel in building great software, whilst supporting individual career growth through personal goal setting and continuous feedback. You will support the team with recruitment, mentoring, coaching, facilitation and performance management and more. Inspire, engage and guide the team through challenges that require extensive collaboration, exceptional engineering and most importantly a fun, open and relaxed working environment. 

You will be accountable for the team commitments to deliveries and ensure the team has good ways of working and prerequisites for top performance.  You will facilitate and enable discussions and decisions of both technical and non-technical nature. You will also be coordinating projects and engaging with stakeholders in collaboration with the product manager.

Skills to create thrills

• We think your saga started with a passion for problem-solving and tech, leading towards developing exciting software that gives you a sound understanding of the craft and the challenges developers face daily.  

• You also have a deep engagement for humans and team dynamics and are committed in supporting people to grow and collaborate in high performing teams. 

• You have a few years experience leading teams and understanding of product centric methods and Agile practices. 

• You have the ability to build relationships across the organization and manage critical communication and coordinate projects on behalf of the team.

• You have a humble and open approach to leadership, with a strong belief in empowerment, trust and collaboration. 

We care deeply about our culture and believe in:
 

• An inclusive and diverse workplace

• Continuous improvement of everything we do

• Collaboration and blame free problem solving

• Asking for help and sharing ideas openly

Bonus points

You will be a part of a collaborative leadership team and have the opportunity to apply strategic thinking and planning across the product domain. We value collaboration on all levels and you will have the opportunity to contribute and drive initiatives across the domain. 

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.