Game Engine Developer

Company Overview

King operates mobile games at a massive scale. With titles like Candy Crush, Candy Crush Soda Saga and Farm Heroes Saga, their code runs on hundreds of millions of devices across the world. King is part of Microsoft and maintains teams in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta.

Team Context: Shared Tech

The role belongs to Shared Tech, which functions as a B2B organization covering data infrastructure, machine learning, payments infrastructure, and game engines. The vision is "We are the stage where King games love to perform." The role sits within the Game Production organization, focusing on tooling and infrastructure to enable content creators to build features faster, easier, and more reliably.

Responsibilities

• Develop the game engine, refine new and existing features, and design, implement, and maintain in-house tools embedded directly within products.
• Collaborate with various current and future users of the Game Engine, bridging various crafts within King to optimize, improve, and discover workflows across games.
• Deliver high quality and well-structured code.
• Improve quality and performance inside the products landscape.
• Share knowledge and best practices with peers and game teams.
• Drive and support features adoption with stakeholders in the game teams across King.
• Facilitate architectural decisions and provide hands-on development to support smaller feature teams based on rolling needs.
• Monitor development in real-time to determine how to support and assist the rest of the development team.
• Improve feedback loops to facilitate tool adoption and evaluate performance.

Mandatory Qualifications

• Strong C++ knowledge and experience.
• Python knowledge with experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with testing, automation, and continuous integration.
• Ability to work closely with cross-discipline teams to understand their needs.
• High sense of code quality and polish and the desire to build and maintain a high-quality code base.
• Ability to develop on multiple platforms: Windows and OSX.
• Self-starter, curious, and a fast learner.
• Ability to context switch easily to provide active support across teams.

Bonus Points

• Experience with game editor extension systems (e.g., Unity Editor scripting, Unreal Editor tooling, or custom C++/Qt editor frameworks).
• Familiarity with using observability tools (e.g., Sentry or Grafana).
• Experience with Cloud frameworks/technologies (GCP, Docker, k8s, etc.).
• Experience facilitating workshops or leading technical presentations internally.
• Experience with performance-critical software.

Culture and Benefits

• The team prioritizes trust, open communication, and a mix of autonomy and support.
• Emphasis on information sharing and supporting each other.
• Commitment to personal development with time and effort invested continuously throughout the year.
• Collaborative environment that values diverse opinions and input.
• Offering of benefits and a social calendar of events.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion to nurture originality and creativity.