About the role
Role Summary
Want to create the world’s best mobile games? We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Kingdom. Our games are adored by hundreds of millions of people around the world, and you’ll be helping build the systems, features, and technology that make them play brilliantly on any platform.
Within Candy Crush Soda Saga, we’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer for a team that works with player-facing gameplay features and experiences. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy feature development, product impact, and creating experiences directly used by millions of players. You’ll work in a creative, collaborative environment where your ideas are valued as much as your technical expertise.
Team Focus
The team focuses on building engaging player-facing systems and experiences that sit on top of the core gameplay loop, including:
- Competitions
- Progression systems
- Social and collaborative features
- Live game experiences
Responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining new systems and game features
- Building high-quality, maintainable, and scalable C++ solutions
- Working with large and complex codebases
- Improving existing systems, architecture, and technical foundations
- Taking ownership of features and systems from concept through production
- Collaborating closely with engineers, technical leaders, designers, and product teams
- Optimizing performance, scalability, and maintainability
- Contributing to technical strategy and best practices
- Coaching and mentoring other engineers
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Highly proficient in C++, with experience working in large codebases
- Comfortable taking ownership of systems or features end-to-end
- Passionate about building high-quality, polished solutions
- Skilled at breaking down complex technical challenges into manageable tasks
- Collaborative and proactive, with strong communication skills
- Passion for making great games
- Strong hands-on coding experience
- Technical ownership
- Collaborative problem solving
Bonus Points
- Experience in the games industry
- Experience with Android or iOS development
- Experience working with memory/performance-critical applications
- Experience working with large-scale or legacy systems
- Experience with graphics programming, rendering, or optimization
- Experience building tools or frameworks
- Experience with scripting languages
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 in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta.
King takes 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. The company challenges itself to dream bigger in a "Seriously Playful" way, experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.