Are you ready to lead the game with over a million passionate players every month? At Paradox Development Studio Gold, we’re looking for a Tech Lead to guide and inspire our team for the Hearts of Iron franchise. This is more than a tech role – it’s a chance to shape the future of a game that brings history to life, challenges the mind, and unites a global community.

Tech Lead Hearts of Iron

In this role, you’ll blend hands-on programming with strategic leadership, ensuring our team overcomes technical challenges to deliver the next great experiences in Hearts of Iron. If you’re an experienced programmer with an eye for strategy, creativity in problem-solving, and a passion for mentorship, this is the opportunity to make a real impact.

Key-responsibilities:

Provide mentorship to the programming team: coach, guide and develop their technical skills.
Define the technical vision for the game, setting clear technical objectives that support the creative vision and product roadmap.
Drive enhancements to the game, working with the existing codebase to ensure the optimal performance of the game across target hardware platforms.
Make sure the team works efficiently and maintains velocity throughout the development

Your role will include collaboration with other leads on the project to remove blockers, keep production moving forward, and balance technical decisions within the project leadership team. You will also be supporting and developing efficient technical solutions to gameplay problems and keeping an eye on performance & stability as well as (time permitting) practically implementing features and systems as needed. You will be expected to work proactively with your responsibilities and as this is a multilayered role, be able to prioritize among your tasks.

Requirements

Solid C++ Expertise – Experienced in writing clean, efficient code in a collaborative environment.
Passion for Strategy Games – A fan of Paradox grand strategy games and excited to make a mark on Hearts of Iron.
Growth-Oriented – A drive to expand your responsibilities, evolve in your role, and foster growth within the team.
Comfortable communicating with English, both written and spoken

Practical information

Scope: Full-time and permanent

Reports to: Lead Producer

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

About The Company

Paradox Interactive is a leading, global publisher of deep, replayable games.

We create intellectually challenging games, with long lifespans and a vibrant player communities. Our heart and soul lies in strategy and management games but we occasionally make calculated bets in other genres where we believe there is break-out potential.

Our steadily-growing portfolio includes titles from established series like Crusader Kings, Cities: Skylines, Europa Universalis, Stellaris and Hearts of Iron. Millions of people from all over the world play our games every month, and participate in their continuous development through their purchases and insights they share with us.

Paradox offices are located in Sweden, France, Netherlands, Finland and USA, and each houses creative staff, skilled in a wide variety of areas of expertise. No matter the specialization, each of us contributes to giving our players the best game experiences and value for their money and time.

Everyone at Paradox is expected to know our players, why they love our games and have an awareness of how their work impacts them in the end. We foster highly-engaged communities, where we encourage our fans to share their sentiment, and empower our colleagues to turn that feedback into action that benefits both our business and fans.

If that sounds good, and you share our vision, we’d love you to join us. Check out our career page: https://career.paradoxplaza.com/#jobs