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Senior Java Backend Developer| New Games

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Job Description:

Work as part of a small and autonomous core technology team to support our new generation of games. You will challenge and refine our way of working with internal technology.

As a developer you have an interest in understanding the whole tech stack, you have good analytical capabilities, you write well-structured code, are comfortable working with a complicated code-base and have a great sense of what is performant and scalable. You're proactive, able to work independently and happy to communicate with the rest of the tech org .

YOUR ROLE WITHIN OUR KINGDOM

As our Java Backend Developer you will be a part of a team with the mission to build and maintain technology to support the studio in creating our new franchises. This includes integrating with existing tech, developing new creative solutions for our games, investigating problems reported by the game teams and coaching fellow developers. You will work in close collaboration with our game teams and enjoy a creative, challenging and collaborative workplace where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your programming expertise.

You will work in a dynamic environment where work is driven by a changing studio portfolio and the requirements of the game teams. Therefore you should be a fast-learner with a positive attitude and a strong passion for working with new technology and be able to jump into any project to quickly adapt and resolve complex problems. You're excited about doing what's best for the games and adaptable enough to work on different things day to day based on their needs. You are passionate about the quality that you and the teams around you, delivering, automating and improving the processes whenever you can.

SKILLS TO CREATE THRILLS

You have great passion for system development, new technologies, large scale systems and games in particular. You’re an excellent communicator, happy dealing with people from different business units and with varying degrees of technical savvy. Therefore, you’re able to translate business needs to technical requirements and implementation. You are not afraid to embrace our DevOps methodology: you promote your code to our production systems and look after it while in production.

Other skills include:

• Able to architect, design and implement components, features and systems in Java.
• Excited about working on a game product targeting a massive number of active users.
• Knowledge of databases, particularly Cassandra and/or other NoSQL databases, as well as general web development.
• Able to support game servers from a Level 3 support perspective, investigating issues when escalated.
• Experienced working with UNIX environments and Git.
• Experience with Spring Framework.
• Great communication between our dedicated ops team, client developers and other backend developers.
• Ability to work with different teams and provide mentorship to junior developers
• Experience with developing scalable backend for mobile apps.

BONUS POINTS

• Experience with Gradle build systems.
• Experience using Jenkins or other CI systems for automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with GCP/GKE
• Experience with C# and Unity engine.

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.