Engineering Manager - Innovation & Development

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Technology & Development

Job Description:

We are looking for an inspiring people leader with a strong technical background in software development. You thrive at the interface between technology and business, combining a passion for building great products with a focus on growing and empowering people. You’ll keep the individual development of team members in focus while driving the delivery of high-quality tools and solutions that empower developers across King and ultimately enhance the experience of millions of players worldwide. The Engineering Manager in Development Services will be responsible for building complex, high-scale, real-time systems. You’ll collaborate closely with other parts of the business like Tech, QA, Player Support, Audio, and Globalization. You will have to work with a team of engineers, managing their tech workload and duties while playing an integral role in finding, retaining and developing the best talent.

Your role within our Kingdom

You’ll support the team to ensure timely delivery of solutions to business needs while advocating modern, agile practices and developing a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company’s values. You will work closely with your engineers, collaborating on technical discussions, architecture decisions, and delivery approaches. You will also be an active part of the engineering management community and collaborate with the product organization.

Expected core activities:

• Build and manage a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Work with the recruiting team to attract, onboard, and retain diverse top talent
• Work closely with the team, product manager, QA specialist, and other stakeholders to ensure we deliver high-quality new features
• Empower the team in their delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Advocate and promote modern, agile software development practices
• Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow and embody a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Actively collaborate with the team and other leaders across the organization
• Drive innovation in the team
• Grow the technical expertise in the team
• Establish and advocate best quality practices across the organization
• Accountable for the execution of the team

Skills to create thrills

Our ideal Engineering Manager is deeply passionate about software development — from lifecycles and products to the craft of building great systems — and about what technology can do for our different business areas and King players. You thrive when developing great people while staying close to the technology, not just managing from a distance. Key skills include:

• Solid experience managing tech teams, and successfully solving many of the tough organizational challenges that follow. You will be comfortable leading teams of 8-15 people.
• Ability to inspire, grow, and lead a team to high performance standards.
• Ability to steer to consensus, balancing between stakeholder approval and forward momentum.
• You have experience building meaningful products. You focus on achieving meaningful outcomes rather than just delivering outputs.
• You bring strong technical knowledge and are comfortable engaging deeply with engineers — whether in code reviews, system design, or discussing trade-offs. You don’t need to be the primary coder, but you can understand technical challenges at depth and help the team navigate them.
• You demonstrate strong verbal/written communication, mentoring, feedback and interpersonal skills.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on programming knowledge (e.g., Java, C++, Python)
• Experience with build engineering and DevOps principles
• Understanding of mobile platforms and app stores

About King

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 @kinggames 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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