R&D Team Leader

5 Hours ago • 6-8 Years • Research & Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

Lead a nimble R&D engineering team at Playtika, building a new high-scale mobile game engine. Responsibilities include managing the team, fostering an innovative culture, collaborating with product and operations, and contributing to engineering tasks. The role requires agile methodology expertise, strong communication, experience with reporting systems (e.g., Jira), and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. You'll be responsible for setting aggressive goals, building processes for scalability, and working to deliver an improved player experience.
Must have:
  • Team leadership & people management
  • Agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Jira experience
  • Strong communication skills
  • High-scale project planning
  • Open-mindedness & critical thinking
Good to have:
  • Team building experience
Perks:
  • Competitive salary & bonuses
  • Hybrid work model
  • All-inclusive cafeteria
  • Coffee/refreshments
  • Long weekends & birthday day off
  • Private healthcare & extra sick leave
  • Wellness programs
  • Gaming room
  • Flexible hours & happy hours
  • Work permit assistance

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.  

 

As a Team Lead, you’ll be leading a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them in an ambitious and technologically inspiring project. With best engineers working together, brainstorming complex ideas, building, proving, or dismissing concepts, team lead will drive development of a new game engine, pursuing the exiting vision of bringing better experience for our players.

Responsibilities:

  • You will be leading engineering team, responsible for building complex, high-scale mobile game.
  • You will be maintaining innovative culture where discussions are open, strategic risks are encouraged and problems are solved together, but to build proper processes which will allow us to scale smoothly.
  • Your role includes cooperation with product management and production operations. While managing employees you might also get your hands dirty by executing actual engineering tasks.
  • You will have to move fast, fail fast and learn fast, as ever-changing environment requires.

Requirements:

  • Experience in leading teams and people management
  • Working with reporting systems (e.g. Jira)
  • Familiarity with agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Fluent English
  • Proven planning experience in high scale projects
  • Open minded and good in accepting new ideas, experience in moderating technical discussions and explaining the vision as well as connecting the details
  • You are not stressed with changing priorities and fast pace.
  • Critical mindset

Nice to have:

  • Experience in building the teams

 

What does it mean to work at Playtika?

You’ll join a team of leaders in the field, and enjoy amazing benefits, some are listed below: 

  • A competitive salary and performance-based bonuses; 
  • Hybrid working mode: Two days from our office, located in the heart of Warsaw (Browary Warszawskie), and three days from anywhere, per week 
  • All you can eat! Breakfast, lunches, desserts, snacks and much more in our Playtika-only cafeteria  
  • Access to PlaytiCafe where all of your coffee (and other refreshments) dreams come true; 
  • Six “Power Up” long weekends for all, and additional day off for your birthday month; 
  • Private medical healthcare and three additional sick leave days; 
  • A wellness program in the office: yoga classes, massage chairs and zerobody room; 
  • Gaming room with a variety of activities; 
  • Flexible working hours and monthly happy hours; 
  • Work permit assistance for employees; 
  • Corporate celebrations, team buildings, and fun activities.

 

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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