Helsinki – onsite – full-time, permanent

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.

Responsibilities:

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.

Requirements:

• 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.
• Proven ability to drive change in complex, distributed environments.
• 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.

Benefits and Compensation:

We develop Supercell as an employer for you to do your best work and to call this the best experience in your professional life. We structure our compensation and benefits to serve this purpose. It starts with perceiving you as a human being, not a resource. Read More

About Supercell:

We are a games company based in Helsinki, Finland, with offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and London. Since our launch in 2010, we've released six games globally – Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Squad Busters, and mo.co.
Our mission is to create great games that as many people as possible play for years and that are remembered forever. To achieve this goal, we put together the best possible teams and give them the freedom and independence to succeed. Read More

You Might Love It Here...:

If you love games, Supercell is the place for you. We're made up of proactive, independent teams that have the freedom to do what they think is best for their players, our games, and the company. We provide compensation, work environment and resources to help people succeed and have fun. Read More

You Are Not Your Job Title:

Working with us means you won’t need to focus on chasing titles or climbing ladders. We’ve decided that our internal job titles don’t include prefixes like senior, junior, principal, or director. Instead, we embrace our non-hierarchical culture. Read More

This position is in Helsinki, but you're not?

No matter where you are moving from, our dedicated mobility team will support you throughout your move. With our dedicated partners, we're here to ensure the process is as smooth as possible for you and whoever will be joining you - be it family members of the human or animal kind! Read More

Not sure if you should apply?

Do it! You might feel like you don't tick all the listed requirements with stellar scores. That's fine! We're here to help you succeed. Also, we're happy to learn about any specific accommodations you might require to fully engage in our recruitment process.

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Application:

Interested? Then just apply via the application form on this page.