Senior Java Developer, Shared Technology

3 Months ago • 4-8 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

King is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join the Experimentation Platform team. This role involves building and improving an internal A/B testing tool to enable data-driven decision-making within the company. The platform empowers users to create and analyze experiments with ease, providing insights into player behavior and optimizing game features. Responsibilities include increasing platform scalability, reliability, and accuracy, taking ownership of code quality, contributing to technical decisions, mentoring team members, designing and implementing features, and collaborating with colleagues to deliver high-quality products. The ideal candidate possesses strong Computer Science fundamentals, is fluent in modern Java, experienced in databases and web development, proficient in web protocols, application servers, and web servers, and demonstrates a commitment to delivering high-quality, maintainable code. Experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bash, GCP, and data engineering is considered a plus.
Must have:
  • Strong Computer Science fundamentals
  • Fluent in modern Java
  • Experience in databases and web development
  • Proficient in web protocols, application servers, and web servers
  • Writes high-quality, maintainable code
  • Team player with good communication skills
  • Familiar with shell scripting and UNIX environments
Good to have:
  • HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bash
  • Knowledge of GCP
  • Interest in data engineering

Job Details

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Technology & Development

Job Description:

King operates mobile games at a massive scale. With titles like Candy Crush, Bubble Witch and Farm Heroes our code runs on hundreds of millions of devices across the world.

We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with strong practical experience, and the drive and enthusiasm to succeed in a demanding and professional team environment.  

Your role within our Kingdom

The Experimentation Platform team at King is responsible for building our internal A/B testing tool that empowers our users to create and analyse experiments with ease. This platform enables data-driven decision-making by providing insights into player behaviour, optimising game features, and improving player experiences. Your role as part of the team is to increase the scalability, reliability, and accuracy of the platform for teams across King.

You will among other things:

  • Take responsibility for the quality of what the team creates, helping to establish good practices.

  • Weight in on technical decisions, facilitating decision making and contributing to the department technology.

  • Help the team grow, both in number, supporting the hiring process, and personally, mentoring team members into clean code and quality mindset.

  • Design, architect and help implement features required to have healthy tools

  • Deliver code and supporting documentation of the highest quality through good design, attention to detail and system testing on a timely basis

  • Work with skilled colleagues that are committed to delivering the best products possible

  • Work in an agile environment, where your opinions matter

  • Share knowledge and help colleagues both inside and outside of your team

  • Ensure our systems perform, and are reliable, scalable and secure. 

Skills to create thrills

In our opinion, programming experience and dedication for quality technology as well as the willingness to share great ideas are equally valued. Are you passionate? Are you a creative team player?

We’re looking for someone who:

  • Has strong Computer Science fundamentals, Design Patterns and Object Oriented knowledge

  • Is fluent in modern Java, experienced in databases and web development in general.

  • Is proficient in web protocols, application servers and web servers.

  • Writes high-quality, maintainable code, cares about it and is willing to further improve their practices

  • Can get up to speed on new codebases quickly

  • Is a team player, has good communication skills and can easily work with new people

  • Is used to shell scripting and UNIX environments.

  • Is a team player who likes to discuss solutions and ideas.

Bonus points

  • Familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bash.

  • Knowledge of GCP

  • Interest in data engineering

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com

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