Senior Software Engineer
Category: Other
Job ID: R024817
Job Type: Regular
Job Description: Senior Full-Stack Tools Developer - Candy Crush Saga
Your role within our Kingdom: As a Tools Developer, you build tools used by game designers and other internal users in creating the content and features of our casual games. As part of the development team, you will enjoy a creative, challenging, and collaborative environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your programming expertise.
Responsibilities:
1. Design, architect and implement web tools and back end services required to develop and maintain game functionality, platform enhancements, and release workflows.
2. Take ownership and ensure our services are in excellent shape and running smoothly.
3. Deliver code of the highest quality through good design.
4. Attention to detail and system testing on a timely basis.
5. Share knowledge and help colleagues both inside and outside of your team.
Skills to create thrills: You have a strong passion for building tools that ultimately serve millions of users every day, working closely with client developers and game/level designers. You are a good communicator and happy to work with people from several different business units. You can translate business needs into technical requirements and implementation. You're excited about the opportunity to participate and shape how business critical content tools are developed, used and maintained on top of working with a multi-facet team that covers wide competence domains.
Other skills include:
1. Great knowledge of web client frameworks like HTML, CSS and JavaScript (e.g., React, NodeJS and Typescript).
2. Good understanding of web protocols like HTTP APIs like REST, JSON-RPC and SOAP.
3. Experience with C++, databases and caching.
4. Familiar working with UNIX environments, bash and git.
5. Familiarity with testing frameworks and TDD.
6. Familiarity with cloud build/deployment.
Bonus points:
1. Experience with developing native mobile applications.
2. Experience with developing clients in C++.
3. Experience with cross functional tools development.
4. Knowledge of different programming languages for example, Java.
About King: With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.
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