Software Engineer | Game Services
King Digital Entertainment AB9 days ago
Barcelona, SpainMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain software used across multiple King games and services.
- Develop scalable backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, and reusable platform components.
- Design integrations and data flows across player-support, game, and internal platform systems.
- Own features through design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Improve scalability, resilience, observability, reliability, and maintainability of existing systems.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, designers, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver solutions.
- Contribute to architecture, technical discussions, code reviews, and engineering standards.
- Improve software quality through automation, testing, and continuous delivery.
- Explore and integrate AI capabilities into player-support products, workflows, and internal tools.
- Share knowledge and contribute to the engineering culture.
Requirements
- Professional software development experience, ideally with Java or another backend-oriented programming language.
- Experience designing and building scalable backend services and APIs.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, data modeling, and performance considerations.
- Ability to design reliable integrations between systems.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Experience with Git, automated testing, code reviews, and continuous delivery practices.
- Understanding of reliability, observability, monitoring, and operating services in production.
- Experience with cloud-based systems and modern deployment practices.
- Ability to understand systems end-to-end, from user experiences and backend services to infrastructure and production operations.
- Experience using AI capabilities or AI-assisted tools in software development or product delivery.
- Effective English communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Bonus: experience with React or modern web development, AWS or other cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka or other event-streaming platforms, shared platforms, developer tooling, AI-enabled products or workflows, C++, C#, Android, iOS, or game development.
Benefits
- Opportunity to build products and services used across multiple King games and by millions of players.
- Work on diverse engineering challenges spanning backend systems, shared platforms, and AI-enabled experiences.
- Influence architecture, engineering practices, and shared-platform evolution.
- Learn from experienced engineers in a collaborative and supportive environment.
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About King Digital Entertainment AB
King Digital Entertainment AB builds free-to-play mobile games for a global consumer audience, best known for the Candy Crush franchise and Farm Heroes Saga, with over 200 million monthly players. Its business model centers on in-app purchases and advertising, supported by large-scale live operations. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Stockholm, King is a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, now part of Microsoft.