Senior Software Engineer

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Technology & Development

Job Description:

Want to help shape the player experience of one of the world’s most widely played live mobile games?

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Candy Crush Soda Saga. In this role, you’ll build the client systems, features, and technical foundations that help teams create polished, scalable player-facing experiences. You’ll work closely with product, design, UX, QA, and engineering partners, combining hands-on development with responsibility for technical decisions to solve complex problems in a large-scale C++ codebase.

Candy Crush Soda Saga is King’s second-largest game, loved by millions of players worldwide. Across more than 19,000 levels, players match Swedish Fish, rescue Soda gummy bears, pop soda bottles, and overcome playful challenges. We’re an iconic team growing a sweeter future for one of the biggest casual mobile IPs in the world through attracting the world’s best talent. Our ambition is to continue crushing it for our players through creativity, product thinking, and technology!

Your Role Within the Kingdom

• Design, build, test, and maintain client-side systems and features in C++ that support polished player experiences.
• Lead technical work from problem definition through implementation, rollout, and iteration, helping turn ideas into reliable solutions.
• Create and evolve reusable client patterns, systems, and foundations that help teams build consistent experiences with less duplication.
• Work closely with product, design, UX, QA, and engineers to translate player and product needs into practical technical plans.
• Improve existing architecture so teams can deliver more complex features efficiently, with strong quality and long-term maintainability.
• Identify trade-offs, risks, and technical constraints early, and communicate them clearly to both technical and non-technical partners.
• Contribute clear, well-structured code to a large live game codebase, with attention to performance, reliability, testing, and maintainability.
• Support adoption of shared systems through documentation, examples, collaboration, and day-to-day technical guidance, including code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Help define how features and systems should work together from both technical and player experience perspectives.
• Use a tech stack centered on C++ for client development, with exposure to mobile game development, UI systems, and client-side performance considerations.
  
  

Skills to Create Thrills

• Experience building and delivering production software in C++, ideally in a large or evolving codebase.
• Experience owning systems or features from technical design through delivery and iteration.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines such as product, design, UX, QA, and engineering to ship player-facing features.
  
  

Knowledge & Skills

• Solid knowledge of C++ and sound engineering fundamentals in architecture, maintainability, testing, and performance.
• Ability to work through complex technical problems, using sound judgment to choose practical approaches and trade-offs while collaborating with others.
• Ability to design reusable systems, patterns, tools, or APIs that support other developers and improve how teams build features.
  
  

Key Attributes

• You take responsibility for your work, make progress with autonomy, and proactively spot issues and solutions early while keeping others aligned.
• You bring sound technical judgment and help others make better decisions through influence, collaboration, and expertise.
• You’re thoughtful, curious, and practical, with a clear focus on code quality, player experience, and continuous improvement.
  
  

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.