Principal Engineer, Game Production

Craft:
Technology & Development

Job Description:
Hiring in locations:

• Barcelona, Spain
• Stockholm, Sweden
• London, UK

We are looking for an experienced engineer to join the Game Production organization, working in the Live Edit team. This team plays a key role in enhancing our production workflows by building tools and technologies that allow artists, designers, and producers to visualize and interact with game content efficiently.

Our engineers are at the heart of our development process — talented generalists who not only deliver high-quality code but also contribute to improving the way we build and experience our games.

You are passionate about programming, technology, and architecture, with a strong focus on quality and innovation. You enjoy solving complex problems, designing scalable systems, and understanding the full technical stack. A solid understanding of game development pipelines and what makes a great player experience is highly valued.

In this role, you'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across Game Production, Graphics, and Game Teams to deliver tools that have a real impact on how we create and refine our games.

Your role within the Kingdom

• As a Principal Engineer, you are an excellent C++ Developer with a focus on code quality.
• You are expected to improve your team's communication and collaboration, and effectiveness.
• Facilitating cross-functional and cross-business unit alignment, providing clear and timely information to all stakeholders, and driving informed decision-making.
• You actively encourage the sharing of knowledge and make sure that important information is easily accessible to everyone.
• You have in-depth knowledge of C++ and you can identify and apply relevant software engineering concepts, architect complex systems, and actively take part in game creation.
• You challenge the quality standards and are accountable for the quality of the systems and components owned by the teams you work with and collaborate with.
• You facilitate and drive the investigation and mitigation of live incidents and enable detection and prevention mechanisms against future issues, and have in-depth knowledge of production environments.
• As a principal Engineer, you foster a culture of autonomy and accountability across multiple teams, promoting self-management and ownership, setting the direction and defining the scope of work.
• This role is for an R&D space that encourages experimentation and design innovation.
• You should possess the drive to push things forward and be unafraid of challenges.
• You should be enthusiastic about tackling problems of varying complexity within a team setting. You will play a pivotal role in defining the architecture, design, stories, and task breakdowns, as well as coordinating technical synchronization. You will need to examine various options and actively assist the team in making decisions regarding technical solutions and processes, including collaborating with the tech leadership team.

Skills to create thrills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent required.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with experienced inter-department tech communication.
• Excellent teamwork skills, proactiveness, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.
• Previous experience working with C++ projects.
• Previous experience with gaming is a plus.

With us you'll get to work at the forefront of casual social gaming business, in a growing, energized and fun environment. At King you're always smack in the middle of the game development, contributing with not only your kick ass programming skills but also with your passion for games and how to build them.

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 Sag
a. 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 or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.