Principal Client Developer

Principal C++ Engineer

We are looking for a Principal C++ Developer who thrives exploring new insights at the forefront of mobile game innovation, helping building ground-breaking bite-sized entertainment for millions of players. You’ll be part of the Catalog Games studio, which leads a portfolio of 9 games.

Your role within the Kingdom

Our programmers are at the heart of our game development. They are committed, dedicated generalists who contribute not only to the code, but to the entire product. They come from a diverse set of backgrounds, but they are all passionate about games, working closely with the rest of the team. In this role, you’ll lead the creation, unification, and maintenance of systems that enable the entire team to operate efficiently across multiple live games. You’ll also be responsible for managing technical integrations and migrations to ensure long-term stability and scalability. In addition, you’ll provide mentoring and guidance to other developers, contribute to prioritization and estimations, and serve as a point of contact between your team, Catalog tech leadership, and other teams at King.

With us, you'll get to work at the forefront of the mobile gaming business, in an energized and lively environment. At King, you're always right in the middle of the team, contributing with not only your programming skills but also with your passion for games and how to build them. Naturally you'll share your knowledge and skills with the rest of the team and King.

Some bite-sized bullet points of the job description are:

• Design, architect, test and implement technical features
• Integrate the latest technical solutions across the games
• Improve the technical foundation of the games, bringing efficiency to developing new and supporting existing features across the games
• Deliver high quality and well-structured code
• Lead a small group of developers, with a focus on mentoring
• Help with roadmaps, timelines, estimations, and priorities
• Sharing and collecting knowledge across diverse teams in an open and collaborative environment

Skills to create thrills

You have a phenomenal passion for programming and are committed to quality and polish. You are genuinely passionate about making games, developing new innovative features and solutions, and game industry R&D - whether you have done so professionally already or are looking to join the industry! You need to care for the professional development of your peers and their wellbeing. As a developer, you are also analytical and interested in understanding the whole tech stack.

• Extensive experience in software development, with a strong track record of technical ownership, solving complex challenges, and contributing to impactful solutions across teams and systems.
• Proven ability to design and deliver performant, user-facing systems in a live production environment, with a strong focus on stability and maintainability.
• Deep knowledge of C++
• Experience working with CMake
• Experience collaboration skills, flexibility, and ability to prioritize multiple tasks
• Passion for software development and learning new technologies/languages

Bonus points

• Build engineering experience (e.g. Jenkins)
• Familiarity with DevOps principles
• Experience working with game engines
• Knowledge of mobile platforms and app stores in terms of development, compliance topics, publishing

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 Saga. 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 King.com or by following us on LinkedIn , @lifeatking on Instagram, or @kinggames on X.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.

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.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!