Senior Backend Engineer

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom King Full time

Craft:
Technology & Development

Job Description:

Senior Backend Engineer (12mth FTC)

Purpose of role

We are looking for 4x Backend Engineers each working with one of our existing live games, where you will contribute to an essential 12-month project focused on enhancing the security frameworks of our games. This project also aims to fortify our products, which serve hundreds of millions of players.

In this project, you will primarily work with one of our live games and collaborate with colleagues from other teams. The project will span a larger portion of our systems, providing a great opportunity to learn about and improve our technology.

For the time being, we're offering 4x roles each on a fixed-term 12-month contract, but we value great talent If you enjoy working with us during this period, we would be delighted to explore the possibility of finding a permanent role for you in our company.

Your role within the Kingdom

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 your programming expertise.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, architect, and implement server features required to support new game functionality, platform enhancements, and operations.
  • Ensure security, high performance, reliability, and scalability of the backend infrastructure.
  • Deliver code of the highest quality through good design.
  • Attention to detail and system testing on a timely basis.
  • Share knowledge and help colleagues both inside and outside of your team.
  • Comfortable working on a live game product with millions of users every day.
Skills to create thrills

You have a strong passion for building backend technologies that serve millions of users every day. You are a good communicator, happy to work with people from several different business units. You are excited about doing what's best for the game, and adaptable enough to work on different things as the game moves between phases.

Experience
  • Strong experience with Java, databases and caching.
  • Experience in Web Development, preferably with React.
  • Experience working with platform security and secrets management.
  • Experience working in a cloud-based environment, preferably with Google Cloud Platform.
Knowledge & Skills
  • Knowledge and experience in CI/CD, test automation, CloudBees, Gradle and related technologies.
  • Understanding of concurrency, scalability, and the challenges of large-scale systems.
Key Attributes
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work well in a team.
  • Hard-working and strive to deliver.
  • Fluent in English.
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, Los Angeles, 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 recently 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.
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