Senior C++ Developer | Game Production | FTC 12-month

4 weeks ago


Stockholm, Sweden King Full time
Craft:
Technology & Development

Job Description:

We are looking for a dedicated Software Engineer to join the Game Production team within King's Shared Tech organisation. This position will enable you to shape the future of our client technology platform, helping King to power some of the most popular mobile games in the world, such as Candy Crush Saga.

Our vision in Shared Tech is to provide a driven technological advantage for game teams at King, helping them to deliver amazing player experiences.

This position is located at King's office in Stockholm to have close proximity to the teams with which you will have close cooperation.

Your role within our Kingdom

Every day you will maintain and evolve the system architecture for our SDKs and game engines. And this by delivering high quality, well structured code and tests for our features.

SDK enables game developers to integrate the game client code with game engines, various services and game back-end.

Your responsibilities will include
  • Responsible for analysing, planning, rectifying, and communicating security vulnerabilities across several engineering teams
  • Able to work independently with limited guidance, but also comfortable reaching out and collaborating with different developers and Technical Directors across multiple teams and organisations
  • Provide hands-on engineering leadership, offering guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers

Skills to create thrills

You have great passion for programming and are committed to quality and polish. As a developer you are also analytical and naturally curious about understanding the entire tech stack.
  • Strong C++ programming language skills
  • Experience from threading and templates
  • Experience from Modern C++
  • Extensive debugging experience
  • Great team working skills
  • Self-organised with ability to work with limited guidance
  • Passion for software development and agile practices
  • Need to thrive in a team driven environment
  • Agile approach to work with both development tasks and support tasks

Bonus Points
  • Experience using Github, Jenkins, Unity & SonarQube
  • Tailoring build system with CMake
  • Scripting with Python
  • Working with software development for Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
  • Experience from Android or iOS app development

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It's our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission - it's the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let's face it, who doesn't love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren't the only ones that can level-up. We're always looking for ways to champion each other and make what's already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and 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.
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