Location:

Helsinki – onsite – fulltime

Job Title:

VP of Software Engineering, Platform Services

Overview:

We’re looking for a strategic and technically seasoned VP of Software Engineering to lead our Platform Services teams. This group builds and evolves the foundational systems, tools, and infrastructure that power our game teams and internal operations. Your mission is to ensure that Supercell’s internal tech platform is robust, scalable, developer-friendly, and aligned with our company culture of autonomy, high ambition, and quality.

This is a critical leadership role; your decisions will directly shape how efficiently our teams build, operate, and scale games played by millions. Since we’re not too big on titles and unnecessary hierarchies, instead of VP, we’ve reserved the title Head of Platform Services for you.

What You'll Be Doing:

Technical Strategy & Platform Vision:

• Define and own the long-term strategy for internal platform services including developer services (CI/CD, version control, build distribution), cloud infrastructure, analytics infrastructure and player support.
• Ensure platform systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Identify and resolve pain points that limit productivity or system performance.

Team Leadership & Culture:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineering managers and senior ICs.
• Foster a strong engineering culture rooted in craftsmanship, ownership, and service mentality.
• Attract and retain top talent while championing inclusion and psychological safety.

Delivery & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Partner closely with game teams, data teams, security, and other internal stakeholders to understand their needs and co-create solutions.
• Translate high-level business and operational needs into a clear, executable roadmap.
• Ensure high quality and timely delivery of platform capabilities.

Operational Excellence:

• Establish and track platform health metrics (availability, latency, support load).
• Drive continuous improvement in performance, resilience, cost efficiency, and documentation.
• Prepare the platform for scale, balancing short-term velocity with long-term maintainability.

What You Have:

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Experience managing managers and operating at director level or above.
• Proven track record of scaling operations and driving change in complex, distributed environments.
• Proven track record of leading leads, and 50+ people organization.
• Familiarity with game development workflows or similar high-performance, low-latency systems.
• Experience building internal platforms or shared infrastructure at scale.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach when needed.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator across technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong customer service mindset: platform teams exist to enable others to thrive.
• Values simplicity, autonomy, and pragmatism.

About Supercell:

Supercell is a games company from Helsinki, Finland, with offices also in San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and London. You might know us as the makers of Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, and Squad Busters. Our mission is to create great games that as many people as possible play for years and that are remembered forever.

We make great games by putting together the best teams and giving them the freedom and independence to succeed. We take risks, fail, share learnings, and kill lots of projects.

Benefits and Other Information:

Relocation support is provided. The company structures compensation and benefits with attention to employee wellbeing. The listing encourages candidates who meet the role's requirements to apply, and notes openness to discuss accommodations during recruitment.

Application instructions: "Once you're ready to apply, just send us your application through the form at the bottom of the page." The page contains an application form to submit name, phone, email, CV and optional attachments.

Recruitment note: "Wishing you all the best, The Supercell Recruitment team"