Overview

As Engineering Manager for Game Platform Foundations, you lead a team building shared backend platforms, cloud infrastructure, and developer tools that empower King’s engineers to ship at scale. You foster growth, drive delivery, and shape product direction to enhance developer experience and player outcomes. You will guide AI-assisted and agentic engineering adoption while maintaining quality, correctness, and maintainability. This role sits at the intersection of people leadership and platform engineering, with a clear impact on how fast and safely teams can build games.

Responsabilidades

- Lead and develop the engineering team to deliver high-quality platform products
- Own recruitment, mentoring, performance management, and creating a collaborative, inclusive culture
- Manage stakeholder relationships and align delivery priorities with engineering teams across King
- Define the team’s product direction and roadmap, making trade-offs to create measurable value
- Track progress, report transparently,



and ensure commitments are met with focus and predictability
- Evolve platforms through productivity metrics and developer feedback to reduce friction
- Guide the team in adopting AI tooling to improve engineering decisions while preserving quality
- Collaborate across backend platforms, cloud infrastructure, developer experience, and internal tools

Requisitos principales

- experience leading software engineering teams
- technical background in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud platforms or platform engineering
- ability to build shared platforms that enable other teams to move faster
- strong stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration
- comfortable with pragmatic Agile approaches and change management

- collaborative
- inclusive leadership
- strong communication
- distributed systems
- cloud platforms
- platform engineering

📌 Engineering Manager | Shared Tech - barcelona
🏢 King Digital Entertainment
📍 Barcelona