// Open Role at King
Join King as a Senior Backend Java Developer to build and evolve shared backend platforms, tackling high traffic and complex engineering challenges to empower game development teams.
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Technology & Development
Job Description:
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Java Developer to help build and evolve shared backend platforms at King. Our technology provides services and capabilities that internal teams rely on to develop games, tools and services.
Building platforms used across multiple teams brings interesting engineering challenges: handling high traffic, designing flexible APIs and evolving systems while keeping them reliable. You’ll work on Java backend services that solve common problems, making it easier for teams to build, integrate and deliver new capabilities.
As a senior backend developer, you’ll help design, build and operate shared backend platforms and services. You’ll work across established systems and new capabilities, balancing the needs of individual teams with solutions that are reusable and maintainable over time.
You’ll take ownership from the first technical discussion through implementation, rollout and production support. Along the way, you’ll work closely with fellow engineers, product partners and the teams integrating our services. Your experience will help shape technical decisions, simplify complex problems and improve how we build and operate our platforms.
You’re curious about how systems work and comfortable investigating problems without an obvious answer. You can weigh trade-offs, explain your reasoning and help a team move forward. You care about making services reliable, easy to integrate with and straightforward for other developers to use.
You don’t need a background in gaming to join us. We welcome experience from other industries and the different perspectives it brings.
Join us to build the platforms that help teams across King develop reliable games, tools and services.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world 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 titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. 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 and @lifeatking on Instagram.
Strong hands-on experience in core Java backend software development, including designing and debugging multithreaded/concurrent systems. Experience building and operating distributed systems under significant load, with a good understanding of performance tuning and scalability. Proven ability to design APIs and evolve services used by other teams, maintaining readable code and meaningful tests. A DevOps mindset with ownership throughout the service lifecycle. Clear communication and a collaborative approach.