Craft:
Technology & Development
Job Description:
As an Engineering Manager in Candy Crush Soda Saga's Gameplay andMonetisationDomain,you'llcombine line management with hands-on technical leadership across the systems that define how Soda is played, rewarded, andmonetised. Your work spans core gameplay mechanics,monetisationflows, content delivery at scale, and the internal tooling that powers them.
King's second largest game, Candy Crush Soda Saga, is loved by millions of players worldwide, matching Swedish fish, rescued Soda gummy bears, and popped soda bottles to win points, defeatobstaclesand progress through almost 20,000 levels.We'rean iconic team growing a sweeter future for one of the biggest casual mobile IPs in the world through attracting the world's best talent. Our ambition is to continue crushing it for our players when it comes to creativity, product, and technology!
Your Role Within the Kingdom
Reporting to the Domain Engineering Lead,you'llline-manage and grow a group of engineers working across multiple feature teams in Gameplay andMonetisation- hiring, onboarding, performance management,mentoringand coaching.You'llhelp each engineer develop their craft and career, and contribute to building stronger connection, clarity,ownershipand psychological safety across the Domain.
Partner with Product Managers, Design and Creative, QA and engineering peers to shape and deliver roadmaps - coordinating dependencies across feature teams, aligning on longer-term plans, and ensuring your Domain's work aligns with Soda's product vision and goals, and fits cleanly into the broader game and platform ecosystem.
Provide hands-on technical leadership in Gameplay andMonetisation, contributing to the codebase on a regular basis - as an IC or Tech Lead embedded within a feature team. Review designs, surface technical risks early, guide architectural choices, and balance speed and quality against Soda's broader technical direction and shared technology platforms.
Represent Gameplay andMonetisationin cross-domain and cross-Soda engineering forums - sharing learnings, contributing to shared engineering standards and ways of working, and bridging your engineers into the wider tech community at King.
Champion a strong experimentation culture - using A/B tests, livedataand player insights to drive technical and productdecisions, andensuring the engineers you support feel accountable for measurable player and business outcomes.
Soda is a large, mature C++ codebase that has been delivered to millions of mobile players for over a decade.You'llwork with purpose-built internal tooling for content, leveldesignand live configuration, alongside King's shared platforms for analytics,experimentationand live operations.
Skills to Create Thrills
Strong grasp of modern software engineering practices (testing, code review, CI, observability) anda track recordof contributing to and upholding shared engineering standards.
Proficiencyin C++ and the ability to reasonaboutmobile performance, memory, frame-time budgets, and stability at scale.
Our Team First, Hybrid Working model empowers teams across the Kingdom to decide how they want to work together, with a mixof inoffice and home working.
Ifyou'reexcited about this role butdon'tmeet every single requirement,we'dstill love to hear from you. We know that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may hesitate to apply unless they match every point, andwe'reinterested in your potential as well as your experience.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.
