Senior Technical Manager
Rovio Entertainment Corporation
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Helsinki • Finland
Visit company websiteExplore more
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Guiding the technical roadmap for Angry Birds Dream Blast, ensuring our code is scalable and high-quality.
- Collaborating with your team to design and build high-impact game features, steering them through complex technical terrain with clarity and support.
- Supervising a team of developers and supporting their growth through empathetic leadership, mentorship, and honest feedback.
- Championing the overall technical quality of the game, ensuring it remains healthy and performant in the live environment for our players.
- Fostering a culture of excellence and ensuring engineering best practices are understood and followed by the team.
- Partnering with product and design leads to share ideas, contribute to feature design, and advocate for the best possible player experience.
- Owning and shaping the technical roadmap for Angry Birds Dream Blast, defining how the team approaches architecture, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
- Driving technical strategy for an ambitious upcoming roadmap, including major new player-facing systems such as collectible mechanics and an expanded narrative experience.
Requirements
- Extensive experience (10+ years) developing live, free-to-play mobile games.
- Strong experience in a people leadership role, with a clear track record of building high-performing teams and driving technical direction in a live environment.
- A deep understanding of game architecture and API design with a proven track record of helping teams write clean, scalable, and high-quality code in C#/Unity.
- A cooperative spirit and proven success in defining and implementing technical strategies and engineering best practices within a game team.
- A live service mindset and expertise, where you own technical KPIs and use data to maintain a healthy and performant live game.
- Deep enthusiasm about the player experience where you work closely with product and design teams to help shape the future of the game.
Benefits
- Relocation support
- Commitment to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
C#Unitygame architectureAPI designscalable codehigh-quality codetechnical strategyengineering best practiceslive service mindsettechnical KPIs
Soft Skills
empathetic leadershipmentorshiphonest feedbackcollaborationteam buildingcommunicationcooperative spiritdriving directionfostering culture of excellenceplayer experience advocacy