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Job Description:

Are you an experienced java developer who thrives in an agile environment built on trust and the passion to create software with exceptional quality and performance? How about working with sweet gaming products, providing a wonderful experience for 260 million players?

Our game backend platform is all about Java and scalability, supporting games like Candy Crush, which means handling many millions of requests per second. As our games and tech evolve we also have to scale our people and the team. This is where you come into play!

Your role within our Kingdom

About us? Our teams are responsible for the heart of the game backend platform, a fine tuned, high performant Java framework and the foundation that run game backends at a vast scale serving millions of players.

We are now on a mission to transform and migrate from our on- premise infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform. We are redefining the core of our platform to leverage cloud technology and enable rapid innovation across all of King.

As a platform developer at King, you’ll have a great opportunity to work with many highly experienced developers and build systems with exceptional quality and performance. We offer you the chance to work in an agile environment where your work brings meaningful impact almost immediately.

We are looking for candidates for multiple teams, each with different responsibilities of the platform, for example game development support and capabilities for persistent storage and event streaming.

You will among other things…

Develop, maintain and support one of the world’s most used game platforms
Design and implement features for our games and support game developers
Collaborate closely with SREs and care for the full lifecycle of our games
Troubleshoot intricate production problems at high load
Be highly involved and contribute to a unique cloud migration at scale
Share knowledge, help colleagues and coach fellow developers
Promote good engineering practises

Skills to create thrills

5 + years of professional software development experience, with a focus on core java
Experience with complex, high load and traffic systems over time
Experience of programming multithreading and concurrency
A deep understanding of performance tuning and scalability
A solid sense of quality and craftsmanship
A great attitude towards knowledge sharing and you like to work within a team that discusses solutions and ideas
Comfortable with Linux and Google Cloud or equivalent cloud provider

We believe your saga started with genuine tech interest and you are intrigued by solving programming problems in whatever language is most suitable. Hard boiled problems and unique challenges inspire you to never stop learning new things.

You have a DevOps mindset and do not shy away from tackling all aspects of a systems life cycle. You believe in craftsmanship, writing high quality code and prefer to iterate rapidly. You are humble and open, share knowledge, ask for feedback and collaborate with your peers to create the best possible solutions.

You have been working in a cloud context for some years and learned how to leverage the cloud for good, modern systems design and implementation. A curious nature makes you naturally keep up to date on what’s going on in the tech landscape to constantly improve and extend your toolbox of knowledge and skills.

Tasty bonus skills

We know you're intrigued by the gaming world. So if you also have professional experience from the gaming industry, we sure would like to hear your story but, we are totally open to other industries.

Experience with different databases and systems with high load database patterns
Experience building and running applications on Kubernetes
Experience of high traffic/high concurrency and performance tuning
Experience with Kafka and intense event streaming solutions

About King

King is the game developer behind the world- famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top- grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid- core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com