Tech Lead Candy Crush Soda Saga

**Craft**:
Candy Crush Soda Saga is looking for two Tech Leads, one will support the lifecycle area and the other to cover the core gameplay area.

Joining at the early stage of the team growth, you will be able to drive and influence the technical direction and foundation for how we work both within the area as well as together with other product areas. To support the employer journey, you’ll be actively involved in the product discovery phase as well as being the one implementing the initiatives in the game.

In the Core Gameplay area, you will work in a cross functional team supporting the game mechanics, levels and tools contents. You will partner with designers, developers and will be a reference for your team. Proactive in integration, strong in architecture and driving our technologies with a high level experience in strategy, you will be able to grow and support in the leadership aspect of the role as well.

Ready for a new challenge ? We can't wait to meet you

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Guide architecture in area initiatives and facilitate technical teamworks
- Advise and guide product and production plans from a technical perspective by identifying technical risks and opportunities.
- Understand critical King systems and how they can be used in the area
- Facilitate collaborations with other areas and King units
- Drive technical projects or investigations to help the area
- Understand, communicate and supply to the tech architecture from the area perspective
- Promote production of high
- quality, scalable and maintainable software
- Keep up
- to date with, and promote, development best
- practices
- Help make the Lifecycle area and Soda an attractive place to work for developers
- Stay an active contributor to Soda’s code base

**Skills to create thrills**:
You haveastrong passion for gameplay features and tools that ultimately serve millions of users every day You are a skilled communicator and are happy towork with people from various business units and crafts. You can translate product ad business needs into technical requirements.

**Other skillsinclude**:

- Strong interpersonal skills - you can adapt your message based on audience and are confident in both written and verbal communication
- An understanding of scale, architecture and long
- term maintenance aspects
- Pragmatism when faced with short
- term vs long
- term challenges
- Capable of moving between different parts of the King tech stack including the engine, client, web and backend
- Have a broad technical knowledge and experience about C++, Backend APIs

**About King**

King is the game developer behind the world
- famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top
- grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

**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 cannot 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.

**Making the World Playful**

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid
- core and casual. 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. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful

Applications need to be in English.