Development Lead Lisboa

Development Lead
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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Miniclip is looking for a Development Lead to hire in our Lisbon (Portugal) Games Development Studio.

This is a
- impact role for an engineering leader with a strong technical foundation, excellent people management skills, and a passion for enabling great teams. If you’re a
- getter, passionate about empowering game development through robust, scalable web technologies - this role is for you!

What will you be doing at Miniclip?

Technical Leadership

Lead the development of essential web tooling for the Miniclip Group including internal dashboards, Live
Ops systems , advertising and analytics platforms, and User Acquisition tools, that support Miniclip’s entire game portfolio

Occasionally contribute directly to our codebases, in situations where these contributions accelerate the team’s work (e. g. : developing
- usable, enabling faster team execution and improving efficiency)

Providing technical and architectural guidance on
-
- day development

Ensuring that the engineering best practices (such as code quality, scalability, maintainability, observability) are reflected in the software developed by the team

Lead a team of Individual Contributors and Managers, in the development of critical Miniclip’s Group Technology tools and Web Properties

Delivering on all aspects of people management responsibilities, including regular 1:1´s, continuous feedback, goal setting, performance evaluations, mentoring, career planning aligned to individual goals, fostering a supportive continuous learning,
- oriented work environment.

Collaboration and Strategy

Defining the team’s short, mid and long term roadmap, considering each member’s responsibilities, aligning with the different Product Managers

Contributing to the broader strategy of Group Platform Engineering, alongside, Server, SDK and Quality Engineering teams

Working closely with game studios and other functional stakeholders to understand needs, align priorities, and remove challenges by providing solutions

Driving cross functional collaboration and helping break down silos in cross team functions

What are we looking for?

You should have the following skills:

Passion for building teams, mentoring talent, and delivering business impact through technology

Proven experience in technical leadership and line management

Familiarity with analytics platforms and observability systems (for example, Google Analytics or Matomo, Datadog or Grafana)

Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins pipelines or Github Actions

Moderate understanding of Source Code management systems, such as git

Experience with Cloud Platforms, such as AWS or similar

Ability to design scalable cloud native solutions

A drive to iterate and improve technical solutions in complex systems

Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence

The following skills are desirable but not essential:

Professional experience in the gaming industry

Exposure to Live
Ops tooling, Platform Engineering and Continuous Delivery systems

About Miniclip

Miniclip is a global leader in games and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. It distributes highly engaging games to a global audience of over 450 million monthly and 70 million daily active users across mobile, PC, console, social, and online platforms. Operating in 15 countries, Miniclip develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 22 studios.

Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, Miniclip has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60
- quality mobile games globally.

To date, Miniclip’s studios and companies have generated more than 10. 5 billion downloads, including the following games: 8 Ball Pool, Subway Surfers, Golf Battle, Football Strike, Carrom Pool, OSM - Online Soccer Manager, Football Rivals , Pure Sniper , Puzzle Page, Head Ball 2, Motorsport Manager, Darts of Fury, Ultimate Golf, Mini Football, Triple Match 3D, Agar. io, Power
Wash Simulator, Suduko.com, and We Are Warriors.