Engineering Manager Game Systems - Technology

Job Description
Are you a natural connector who thrives when developing great people and teams? How about working with amazing software and sweet gaming products, enabling a wonderful experience for 260 million players?
Game Systems is all about scalability, supporting games like Candy Crush, which means handling millions of requests per second in some systems. As our games and tech evolve we also have to scale our people and the team. This is where you come in to play!
Your role within our Kingdom
About us? In Game Systems we build the foundational systems that allow King to release games to any number of players. The team consists of 15 fun and friendly Kingsters (Java Engineers, Build Engineers and Frontend Engineers) and together we develop:
Application servers


Scalable sharded datastores


Frameworks and infrastructure for building game management tooling (AB Testing, Tracking, Live Ops etc.)


Multiplayer systems (Mobile)

As our sparkling new Engineering Manager, you will inspire and empower the talents in your team, so they can excel in building great software, whilst supporting individual career growth through specific goal setting and continuous feedback.
You’ll have a humble and open approach to leadership, with a strong belief in autonomy and a keen interest in developing people plus a side interest in gaming and techy stuff!
Skills to create thrills
We think your saga started with a passion for problem- solving and tech, leading towards developing exciting software at scale.
You'll also have a soft spot for humans and be heavily committed in helping people to grow, with a passion for developing teams and people (through recruitment, mentoring, coaching, facilitating feedback and performance management)
The ideal person for this role, will be an experienced Development/Engineering Manager with a technical background in software engineering (from roles such as developer, programmer, architect, data scientist) with a genuine interest in scalable backend systems, platforms and how they can accelerate the success of their users
Bonus points
We know your'e intrigued by the gaming world. So if you also have professional experience from the gaming industry, we sure would like to hear your story.
In saying that, we are totally open to other industries. We are just super keen to find an inquisitive Engineering Manger who has a Dev Ops mindset, can identify a hack solution and question things.
You will enable your team to take ownership whilst empowering them to build the awesome solutions here at King!
Making the world playful
When it comes to interactive mobile entertainment, we're pretty proud to be number one. We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions everyday through games like Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way.
A great saga needs all sorts of heroes
Making games is fun! Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can’t expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. And that’s it.
Let's shape the future
Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done…and we see a world of possibilities ahead. Together we can experiment, learn and adapt to continuously shape the industry, raise the bar and delight billions of people across the world.
You’ll find all you need to apply (it´s super- easy), plus more information on our culture, values and benefits, including relocation packages at jobs.king.com.
All applications should be made in English and we are keen on getting to know you and the stuff that makes you tick!