Senior C++ Engineer – Platform & Test Automation

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Job Description:

• Design implement and maintainhigh-quality well-tested C systemswithin our game engine and SDKs.
• Take ownership oftest automation strategyfor your area including unit integration and system-level testing.
• Build and evolvetestable architectures enabling fast feedback and safe iteration for game teams.
• Advocate for and actively applyautomation-first principles CI integration and quality gates.
• Collaborate cross-team with engineers technical leads and game teams to deliver reliable platform improvements.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers with a strong focus on testing practices and code quality.
• Contribute to long-term architectural decisions with an emphasis onstability performance and testability.
• Investigate and resolve complex cross-platform issues supported by strong diagnostics and automated coverage.
• Participate in code and design reviews raising the bar for both implementation and testing standards.
• Stay up to date with modern C testing frameworks and engine/platform best practices.

• You care deeply aboutquality correctness and maintainable systems and you believe strong automation is essentialnot optional.
• Required
• Strong proficiency inC including Modern C.
• Solid experience withtest automation in C environments(unit integration or system-level).
• Experience designingtestable systemsand writing code with automation in mind.
• Strong debugging skills across complex multi-platform codebases.
• Experience with multithreading concurrency and templates.
• Familiarity with CI pipelines and automated quality checks.
• Ability to work independently with limited guidance while collaborating proactively.
• Passion for clean code robust systems and continuous improvement.

• Experience with cross-platform mobile development (Android NDK iOS).
• Familiarity with graphics APIs or rendering pipelines (OpenGL Vulkan Metal).
• Hands-on experience with build systems (CMake Gradle Fastlane Bazel).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitHub Jenkins SonarQube).
• Exposure to scripting languages (Lua Python) for tooling or test automation.

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 worlds 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 by following us on LinkedIn @lifeatkingon Instagram or @kinggameson X.