Backend Developer | Shared Tech | 12 month FTC

Craft:

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to provide temporary cover within King’s Game Platform Data team. The team provides King’s telemetry platform, enabling our games to define, capture, validate, transport, and manage player-event data so it can be trusted by analytics and downstream systems.

You will help ensure continuity across backend development, operational support, and key strategic initiatives.

This is a hands-on role for an experienced engineer who can take ownership of reliable services and integrations, collaborate closely with product and engineering partners, and make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.

Tech Stack

Strong Java experience and familiarity with cloud-native technologies. Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka/Confluent, SQL/Big Query, or similar technologies is beneficial.

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.