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Want to create the world’s best mobile games?
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Kingdom. Our games are adored by hundreds of millions of people, and you’ll be helping build them, as well as contributing to the engine, systems and platforms that make them play brilliantly on any platform.
Your role within the Kingdom
If you want to create amazing user experiences and entertainment for millions of players on the go, this is the right job for you. As part of the Central Technology team in Candy Crush Soda Saga, you will both design Soda’s long‑term architecture and bring it to life by implementing end‑to‑end systems directly in our client codebase. This role bridges big‑picture system design with hands‑on development, ensuring robust, maintainable, and high‑performance solutions. You’ll also be the one to deliver reference implementations that teams can immediately adopt across the codebase.
Working closely with the tech leadership team, you will shape Soda’s technical strategy and ensure our architecture continues to evolve to support future success. Along the way, you’ll enjoy a creative, collaborative environment where your ideas are valued as much as your technical expertise.
Your responsibilities will include:
Auditing Soda’s architecture, designing new systems, and improving existing ones
Taking full ownership of new systems from concept through production‑ready code, delivering examples for adoption across the client codebase
Collaborating with the rest of the Technical Leadership in Soda to align on strategy
Contributing high‑quality, well‑structured code to the client codebase
Coaching colleagues and serving as a role model for technical excellence in areas like code quality, design, and collaboration
Skills to create thrills
We equally value a passion for making great games, extensive hands‑on coding experience, strength in software architecture, and a knack for sharing great ideas. You are:
Highly proficient in system design, with proven experience architecting large and complex systems
Very strong in C++, with experience working in large codebases
Skilled at balancing architectural vision with pragmatic delivery, ensuring designs translate into production‑ready solutions
Passionate about games and would love to help create the next big thing
Driven by quality, polish, and pride in the solutions you deliver
Proactive in taking technical ownership from design to implementation
Bonus points (nice to have, not required)
Experience in the gaming industry
Experience with Android or iOS development
Experience working with memory‑ or performance‑critical applications
Experience developing tools with scripting languages
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.