Head of Tech & Quality, Clash of Clans (GameDev)

TL;DR

Head of Tech & Quality, Clash of Clans (GameDev): Overseeing the end-to-end technical and quality vision for the live game Clash of Clans, with an accent on the release system, live reliability, and performance. Focus on setting game-wide technical standards, ensuring smooth and predictable updates, and building multidisciplinary engineering and QA teams.

Location: Onsite in Helsinki or London. Relocation support is available for candidates moving to either city.

Company

hirify.global is a Helsinki-based games company known for titles like Hay Day and Clash of Clans, focused on creating great games by empowering independent teams.

What you will do

• Define and own the end-to-end technical and quality vision for Clash of Clans, from ideation to live operations.
• Be accountable for the game's release system, including cadence, gates, rollout, rollback, and incident management.
• Improve game performance, tooling, and testing to ensure a smooth player experience on target devices.
• Lead, hire, coach, and develop a multi-disciplinary Tech & Quality clan (engineering, QA, release, tools, performance, platform).
• Collaborate with central tech teams and external partners on shared services, tools, and technical interfaces.
• Shape the overall game plan as part of the Clash Leads group, prioritizing player quality and team pace.

Requirements

• Held senior engineering/tech leadership roles for a large-scale live product, ideally games or complex mobile apps.
• Responsible for shipping at scale, including CI/CD, branching strategies, rollouts, rollbacks, and incident management.
• Deep technical literacy in at least one of: gameplay/client engineering, server/platform engineering, build & automation, performance engineering, or QA automation.
• Experience leading leaders and senior individual contributors; hiring, coaching, growing people, and building succession plans.
• Experience working closely with cross-functional partners (product, design, art, marketing, BI) and central/platform teams.
• Demonstrated strategic and hands-on approach, system thinking, clear communication, talent building, calmness under pressure, and player-first judgment.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture built on independent "cells" (teams) and trust.
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package focused on employee well-being.
• Supportive work environment and resources provided for success and enjoyment.
• Dedicated mobility team and partners offer full relocation support to Helsinki or London for you and your family.
• Emphasis on work-life balance and a fun working environment.