Data Engineer

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Job Description:

King is the worldwide leader in mobile gaming, with more than 2 billion USD in yearly revenue and 340 million monthly active users thanks to brands like Candy Crush Saga.

With 14 Petabytes of data and dozens of billion events generated every day, data at King is in the heart of the business. The marketing engineering team is responsible for building complex, high-scale systems, working closely with other parts of the business to support the marketing activities for our popular games. We are looking for a developer with strong practical experience, and the drive and enthusiasm to succeed in a demanding and professional team environment.

Your role within our Kingdom

• Engage directly with our stakeholders to understand the way they work and their problems
• Work in a highly collaborative team to devise solutions to business problems, bringing your skills and ideas into every discussion
• Contribute to the solutions at the backend of the data stack, from the ETL to data modelling, and occasionally work on the front end, on our BI reports and dashboards
• Take ownership and responsibility for the quality of the solutions, testing them and ensuring best practices are used throughout the development process - particularly with regard to self-explanatory code, maintainability and scalability
• Learn new technical skills when needed and use them to help the team achieve success
• Collaborate with other teams within the Shared Tech organisation to ensure the consistent and coherent growth of our data capabilities

Skills To Create Thrills

• Excellent SQL and query optimization skills and good understanding of data modelling techniques
• Solid Python programming and experience building data pipelines
• Google Cloud Platform including BigQuery or experience with other cloud computing provider
• Ability to understand business needs and turn these into meaningful data products
• Self-starter with a great drive and a curious and inquisitive mind-set ○
• Willing to step outside your comfort zone to broaden your skills and learn new technologies
• Highly collaborative work style and open to share your knowledge, receiving and giving feedback, performing code reviews and so on

Tasty Bonus Skills

• Experience with CI/CD automation and tools like Drone
• Experience with BI and Analytics tools such as Looker, Tableau or Qlik Sense Experience with infrastructure as code and tools like Terraform
• Exposure to Agile workplace ○ Open source project contributions

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.