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Senior Software Developer – C++ with interest in Build systems (Technology)
 

Craft the Future of Mobile Gaming

Do you want to shape the future of the world’s most beloved mobile games? Are you ready to influence technology direction, mentor others, and architect solutions that reach hundreds of millions of players?

We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to join the Game Production Integration team. You’ll operate at the intersection of technology strategy and game development, driving technical excellence across King’s portfolio.

Your Role within Our Kingdom

As a Senior Developer, you will be an important technical contributor — building high-quality solutions, influencing best practices, and helping teams across King deliver scalable, reliable, and fun experiences. You will:

• Build and Improve Technology: Contribute to the design and implementation of systems that help game teams effectively use and extend King’s internal technology, ensuring strong performance, stability, and developer experience.
• Integrate and Adapt: Work to find clear and innovative ways of utilising our existing technology to bring value to all games.
• Shape Best Practices: Help evolve technical approaches by contributing to scalable architectures, high-quality code standards, and thoughtful engineering patterns across platforms.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with internal platform, tools, and game teams to understand needs, align on priorities, and deliver impactful solutions that support multiple titles.
• Support and Mentor: Provide guidance and support to developers within your team, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Solve Complex Problems: Tackle challenging technical issues, debug and optimize systems, and help ensure long-term maintainability and architectural health.
• Champion Build & Dev Experience: Drive improvements in build pipelines, tooling, and workflows to ensure game teams can iterate faster, integrate technology seamlessly, and maintain high engineering velocity.
   

You’ll act as a hands-on expert building an understanding of, and contributing to many of the complex contexts that enable our games to bring fun to hundreds of millions of players each day.

Skills to Create Thrills

• Extensive professional experience in C++ development, with a deep understanding of performance, memory management, and cross-platform considerations
• Proven expertise in Android and iOS development and mobile platform optimization
• Demonstrated ability to architect large systems and guide teams through complex integrations across multiple codebases
• Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams or game projects
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to influence stakeholders across technical and creative disciplines
• Passion for mentorship, enabling others to grow and succeed
• A customer-centric mindset, ensuring technology serves both developers and players effectively
• Strong understanding of modern build systems and developer tooling (e.g., Bazel, CMake), with a passion for improving build performance, reliability, and engineering workflows.

Bonus Points

• Experience developing and shipping games end-to-end
• Background in developer relations, SDK design, or platform advocacy
• Proficiency in Java, C, Python, Gradle, Jenkins, and CMake
• Familiarity with build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and cross-platform tooling
• Demonstrated impact in shaping technology roadmaps and best practices at scale
• Hands-on experience optimizing large-scale build pipelines (CMake or Bazel) to improve developer experience and scalability.

Making the World Playful

At King, we bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of players daily through titles like Candy Crush Saga,Farm Heroes Saga, and Candy Crush Solitaire. We push the boundaries of technology and creativity, guided by curiosity, passion, and a love for games.

Dream Bigger

This is an exciting time to join King. As we continue to dream bigger, you’ll play a vital role in redefining the world of games through creativity, innovation, and leadership.
 

Find all you need to apply — and more about our culture, values, and benefits, including relocation packages — at jobs.king.com.

All applications should be made in English.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.