Technical Lead - THE FINALS

As the Engagement Technical Lead for THE FINALS, you will lead the technical execution of engagement features that keep players immersed in, connected to, and returning to the game.
This role bridges people leadership with game design, live-ops, backend systems, and engineering.
You will mentor and guide engineers, collaborate closely with design and product, and make architectural decisions regarding the engagement systems.
In your day to day you work as an amplifier for cross team communication & collaboration.
Example of responsibilities 
Leadership & Collaboration

Technical Leadership of a cross-functional engagement engineering team


Act as the main technical point of contact for engagement initiatives across disciplines.


Managerial responsibilities (not limited to) hiring & onboarding of new employees and long-term career development.


Serve the know-how & share best practices: coaching people to make the right decisions across dependencies and to raise concerns and needs.


Collaborate with design, art, data analytics and live-ops to define, scope, and deliver engagement-focused features.


Planning and working for sustainability / scalability of team and throughput, including headcount planning and scoping.


Architecture & Development

Design and evolve robust, scalable systems supporting engagement components (e.g., player progression, reward loops, social features).


Ensure high performance and reliability.


Foster best practices in code quality, automated testing, performance profiling, and release reliability.


What You'll Work on

Player engagement systems (progression trackers, rewards, seasonal features).


Social & competitive hooks: leaderboards, team stats, clans/guilds support, rewards integration.



We would love if you have

A creative and curious mind


A solid and proven background from software engineering and architectural leadership


Experience in C++, building games


Experience in game engine development


Learning, collaborative and sharing approach as well as motivation to take initiative and drive 


The ability to be a great team player with good communication skills


Proven leadership qualities, including splendid recommendation stats from former team members


Professional English communication skills.


 
This is an on-site role, and we are only considering candidates already residing in Sweden.
At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.
Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!