C++ Developer

Technology & Development

Job Description:

Software Engineer C++

We are looking for a C++ engineer to join the SDK Core team in Stockholm. Our team sits inside King's Shared Tech organisation, and what we build matters: the cross-platform SDK that powers some of the most played mobile games in the world, including Candy Crush Saga.

If you love writing clean, thoughtful code and want to see it run on millions of devices, this is the role.

Your role within our Kingdom

Game developers at King build amazing experiences. Our job is to give them the tools to do it faster and better. We architect and design SDKs that connect game client code to game engines, back-end services, and platform infrastructure across iOS, Android, Windows, and the web.

When we ship something good, every game team at King benefits.

Your responsibilities will include

• Design,build and maintain SDK modules that game teams rely on every day
• Own your work end to end: from understanding the requirement, writing a spec, and building the feature, to helping other teams integrate it
• Review code, give honest feedback, and welcome it on your own work
• Investigate live issues, profile performance, fix bugs, and chip away at tech debt. I.e. the full picture, not just the exciting parts.
• Collaborate with engineers across King, and sometimes with non-engineers, to find the best solution

You care about your craft. You write code you are proud of, and you ask questions when something doesn't make sense.

• Excellent team working skills, with a collaborative mindset and experience in pair programming and mob programming with colleagues
• Strong C++ programming language skills, with experience including the following areas:
• Modern C++ (We currently use C++23)
• Concurrent programming techniques and best practices
• Generic programming and templating techniques
• Debugging
• Passion for software development and quality
• Good at both sharing and taking in ideas. Our work often involves collaborating with teams across the company to achieve consensus when problem solving
• Able to adapt to the task at hand. We work with both development and support tasks
• Experience using Git version control system

• We support the following platforms/SDKs, experience developing for any or all of them is an advantage: iOS, Android, Windows (win32 and GDK), Emscripten, Unity, macOS and Linux.
• Working with CMake or Bazel for build configuration
• Python scripting
• SDK or library development
• Experience with CI pipelines, especially Jenkins: setting them up, keeping them stable, and knowing how to fix issues when builds fail.
• Ability to work with a high degree of independence while keeping people in the loop

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.