We are looking for a Junior C++ Developer who seeks for growth by exploring new ideas at the forefront of mobile game innovation, helping to build ground-breaking bite-sized entertainment for millions of players. You’ll be part of the Catalog Games studio, which leads a portfolio of 9 live King games working across multiple locations.
Your role within the Kingdom
If you want to create technology that enables you to deliver entertainment for millions of players, then this is the job for you. You will have a part in solving technological challenges to help create and maintain a tech ecosystem that is constantly evolving and shared across many of our titles. Your work will support many games’ roadmaps. As part of the development team, you will enjoy a creative, challenging, and collaborative environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as growing your programming expertise.
We’re looking for someone with a technical mindset. Your role will be to help your team with their day-to-day tasks, primarily focused on the efficient operation of multiple live games with stability and quality in focus.
With us, you'll get to work at the forefront of the mobile gaming business, in an energized and fun environment. Naturally you'll find support in expanding your knowledge and skills within the rest of the team and King and the skills and mindset you bring in will be highly valued.
Some bite- sized bullet points of the job description are:
Implement and test technical features
Integrate new technical solutions across the games
Help to improve the technical foundation of the games, bringing efficiency to developing new and supporting existing functionalities across the games
Work with others to deliver high quality and well-structured code
Sharing and collecting knowledge across diverse teams in an open and collaborative environment
Skills to create thrills
You have a great passion for programming and are committed to quality and polish. You are genuinely passionate about developing new innovative solutions, and game industry R&D as your path to grow your career in the industry. As a developer, you are also analytical and interested in striving to understand the whole tech stack.
Other skills include
Practical experience of working with C++
Good teamwork skills, flexibility
Passion for software development and learning new technologies / languages
Bonus points
Interest in Build engineering (e.g. Jenkins)
Some knowledge about CMake
Interest in DevOps principles and roles
Willingness to learn and work with publishing mobile platforms and app stores in terms of development, compliance topics, publishing
About King
King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch and Pet Rescue. Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King’s games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021. King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes
Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
Making the World Playful
Making the World Playful is what inspires us to create new experiences and raise the bar. It’s what makes King a place where we can all dream bigger, continue to add innovation to our games, broadening the portfolio and exploring new territories in mid-core and casual. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through our curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other and love for our players - and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. In fact, together with our parent company Activision Blizzard and experts around the world, we believe having fun is good for you. There has never been a better time to join us. We're dreaming bigger and see a world of possibilities ahead. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!