R&D Team Leader

5 Months ago • 2-4 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Playtika seeks an experienced R&D Team Leader to join their growing team. This role requires professional supervision of team deliveries, ensuring timely and high-quality results while adhering to company practices. Responsibilities include removing impediments, empowering team ownership and accountability, assisting the Product Owner in an agile environment, promoting scrum implementation, and fostering continuous improvement within the team. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of managing agile teams, 4+ years of software development experience in languages like Java, C#, Unity, or JavaScript, strong communication skills, decision-making capabilities under pressure, and fluency in English. Experience in game development is a plus.
Must have:
  • 2+ years Agile Team Management
  • 4+ years Software Development (Java/C#/Unity/JavaScript)
  • Strong Communication Skills
  • Decision Making Under Pressure
  • English Fluency
Good to have:
  • Experience in game development
Perks:
  • Annual bonus
  • Daily lunch and refreshments
  • Meal vouchers
  • Holiday vouchers
  • 21 vacation days
  • 6 long weekends
  • 1 day off for birthday
  • Additional days off
  • Private medical subscription
  • Private dental subscription
  • Glasses allowance
  • Private pension
  • Wellbeing plan
  • Birthday gift
  • Bonus and gift cards for special events
  • Transport settlement
  • Parking facilities
  • Exciting company events
  • Games: pool table, ping-pong, fuzzball, air hockey, etc.
  • Central location: Timpuri Noi (Hybrid Work)

Job Details

Join us at Playtika (NASDAQ: PLTK), where we're driven by the belief life needs play. We’re on a mission to deliver infinite ways to play using cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning to craft immersive experiences that connect, inspire and entertain millions of players worldwide. 

From our start as a small mobile games company founded in Israel to our current position as a publicly traded company and industry leader, we continue to be a dominant force in interactive entertainment. With a diverse portfolio of award-winning, category-leading Casual and Social Casino-themed games, including nine of the top 100 highest-grossing mobile games in the US, we're setting the standard for excellence. 

Our success story is co-authored by a dynamic team of storytellers, strategists, creators and data scientists who thrive on innovation. We are home of the best, advancing an inclusive culture that embraces our core values and reflects our agile DNA. 

With a strong financial foundation, disciplined operations, unwavering player-focused approach and  relentless can-do spirit, we're well-positioned for sustained growth. If you're ready to join the driving force behind the evolution of interactive entertainment, we invite you to come play with us.  

Responsibilities:

  • Professional supervision on team deliveries
  • Strive towards delivery in time and quality with his team & remove impediments
  • Ensure that the Team adheres to company’s practices, rules and procedures
  • Empower the team to own and be accountable for their deliveries
  • Responsible to help the PO to be effective in an agile environment
  • Responsible to help the organization to implement the scrum across the board
  • Responsible to help the scrum team practice scrum principles
  • Encourage and assist the scrum team to continuously improve

Requirements:

  • 2+ years of experience in managing teams in an Agile Environment
  • 4+ years experience in Software Development (Java/C#/Unity/JavaScript)
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to take decisions under pressure and work independently with product owner and the business department
  • Good English
  • Experience in game development (nice to have)

Playtika's Benefits:

  • Annual bonus
  • Daily lunch and refreshments
  • Meal vouchers
  • Holiday vouchers
  • 21 vacation days
  • 6 long weekends
  • 1 day off for your birthday
  • Additional days-off
  • Private medical subscription
  • Private dental subscription
  • Glasses allowance
  • Private pension
  • Wellbeing plan
  • Birthday gift
  • Bonus and gift cards for special events (Easter, 1st of June, 8th of March, Christmas)
  • Transport settlement 
  • Parking facilities
  • Exciting company events
  • Games: pool table, ping-pong, fuzzball, air hockey, etc.
  • Central location: Timpuri Noi (Hybrid Work)

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, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

If you feel the above describes you perfectly - Apply now! 

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About The Company

For a decade Playtika has been a pioneer in the games industry with more than 34 million monthly active users across a portfolio of casual games titles. We were among the first to offer free-to-play games on social networks, and shortly after, on mobile platforms. Playtika creates disruptive gaming experiences that are reshaping the gaming landscape using cutting-edge technologies in Live-Ops, Data Analytics and Performance Marketing. As a digital entertainment powerhouse, Playtika processes 9TB of data daily. Our creative team translate data-driven insights into customized story lines that deliver exciting challenges and surprising thrills, at every twist and every turn. We move fast, seizing new opportunities, pushing boundaries and leveraging the technology and talent we’ve acquired along the way. At Playtika, we are storytellers and coders, artists and data-scientists, explorers and strategists. We don’t just build games, we bring them to life. We create infinite ways to play. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, Playtika has over 3700 employees in offices worldwide including Ramat Gan, Berlin, , Warsaw, Vienna, Helsinki, Chicago, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Sydney, Kyiv, Bucharest, Minsk, Dnepr, and Vinnytsia.

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