Engineering Manager

Job Title:

Engineering Manager

Requisition ID:

R026402

Job Description:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to shape the future of King’s Game Service Platform - Framework team that provides the unshakeable foundation for all Java development at King and supports some of the most popular mobile games in the world such as Candy Crush Saga.

More specifically, the Framework team curates and integrates the best available backend technologies, augmenting them with custom components when necessary, to deliver a standard, reliable, and secure framework. By abstracting complexity and embedding security, performance, stability, and operability, the team empowers developers to build and integrate operable services efficiently—reducing cognitive load and operational burden.

Your role within our Kingdom

As Engineering Manager in the Game Services Platform organization, you will have an exciting opportunity to lead a strong and talented team that is capable of evolving King’s internal technology ecosystem to fulfill the business needs. This role also requires a strong product mindset and proven stakeholder management skills, ensuring that the team delivers the right solutions that bring value to our internal customers.

What you will do

Inspire and empower the talents in your team, so they can excel in building great software. Support individual career growth through specific goal setting, continuous feedback and coaching.

Foster an environment of trust and collaboration, where healthy debate drives innovation while maintaining alignment on strategic goals.

Collaborate closely with Engineering managers, Tech Directors, and stakeholders across multiple organizations to align priorities, define roadmaps, and ensure a strong balance between technical excellence and product value.

Support the team for timely delivery of platform solutions.

Grow the team through continuous improvement of team structure, ways of working and team culture.

Skills to create thrills

Proven track record of success in developing people and growing engineering teams.

Passionate about building a healthy, inspiring, and motivating team environment.

Good experience in software engineering to understand complex details in software development, as well as best practices in building and delivering large scale technical solutions.

Strong product and stakeholder management stills to balance long-term vision with short-term delivery.

Passionate about building the right product through technology that brings business value.

Ability to communicate the business and technical tradeoffs across the organization.

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