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Job Description:

Join as an Senior Engineering Manager to be a great leader to the team you support, helping them grow as engineers and delivering significant value to users of the products and services they are developing and operating.  

As an Senior Engineering Manager, you are an ambassador of innovation in the team. You have a technical background in software development, enabling you to support and guide the team, sustaining healthy technology and careers. You will partner with Product Managers and other leaders, to define strategy and execution for the teams.

Be a part of Client Foundations, bringing flow to other developers within King. We are a team of 30+ skilled, knowledgeable, and passionate people, with the goal to double during 2022. We are cross- located in Barcelona, Stockholm, and London, with a flexible hybrid working model. The technology we produce is used across more than 14 different King games including Candy Crush Saga with nearly a quarter of a billion mobile game players every month.

You will head up Engineering System & Support (ESS), a Team that supports developers all a cross King by  providing systems and services to engineering and game productions teams all over King. Repositories (Code/Binaries), Builds environment (CI/CD), Code Quality/Review tools and Mobile Store Management core platform. It’s great if you are knowledgeable about DevOps and CI/CD.

Your role within our Kingdom

As Senior Engineering Manager, you will work together with the team to ensure a timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs while advocating advanced modern, agile software development practices and helping develop and promote great engineering and organizational practices. We value having fun together. Nurturing healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with our values  and playful culture. You will also join our engineering management community and collaborate with the product organization.

Some typical activities:

• Grow, lead and support a healthy 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 parts of the whole organization, the team, product manager, tech director, and other stakeholders to define strategy and ensure we delivery of technology and services that makes other developers faster and happier

• Together with the team and product manager, you will be an advocate for continuous integration best practices in the organization

Skills to create thrills

Our ideal Senior Engineering Manager is passionate about technology and what it can do for our different business areas and players of King games, and thrives when developing and supporting great people, not just great software and products. We are looking for someone with:

• Solid experience managing tech teams, and successfully solving organizational challenges, and being comfortable leading a team of up to 10 people.

• You have the ability to encourage, grow, lead and develop a team to high performance standards and an inclusive culture

• Ability to steer to collaboration, balancing between stakeholder approval and forward momentum.

• Experience building meaningful products. You are focused around the outcome over the output.

• Demonstrate verbal/written com

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.