Backend Developer

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to provide temporary cover within King’s Game Platform Data team. The team provides King’s telemetry platform, enabling our games to define, capture, validate, transport, and manage player-event data so it can be trusted by analytics and downstream systems. You will help ensure continuity across backend development, operational support, and key strategic initiatives. This is a hands-on role for an experienced engineer who can take ownership of reliable services and integrations, collaborate closely with product and engineering partners, and make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve backend services and platform capabilities that support Telemetry Data.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues; participate in operational support and improve service reliability.
• Work with engineers, data teams, product partners, and game teams to clarify requirements and deliver pragmatic solutions.
• Review code, contribute to technical design, and promote strong engineering practices for quality, observability, and maintainability.
• Document systems, decisions, and operational procedures to support effective handover and team continuity.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Significant professional experience as a backend or platform engineer, including ownership of production systems.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: designing maintainable services, writing high-quality code, testing, debugging, and code review.
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, and Streaming pipelines.
• A strong operational mindset, including incident investigation, monitoring, and reliability improvements.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners.
• A collaborative approach and willingness to support a team through a time-bound transition.

Tech Stack

• Strong Java experience.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies.
• Beneficial experience: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka/Confluent, SQL/Big Query, or similar technologies.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games, including the Candy Crush franchise and Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft, has locations in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta.

Company Values and Culture

• We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day.
• We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.
• We are challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way.
• We are experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry.
• We play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale.