Principal Client Developer

Barcelona - Spain

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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Job Description:

Principal Client Developer (L12) Product Team

We are looking for a Principal C Developer who thrives on exploring new insights at the forefront of mobile game innovation helping to build ground-breaking bite-sized entertainment for millions of players. Youll be part of the Catalog Games studio which leads a portfolio of 9 games.

Your role within the Kingdom

Our programmers are at the heart of our game development. They are committed dedicated generalists who contribute not only to the code but to the entire product. They come from a diverse set of backgrounds but they are all passionate about games working closely with the rest of the this role youll lead feature architecture and development for a single game driving end-to-end Product and Optimisations delivery while co-owning technical governance and alignment and contributing to the Catalog Platform direction that supports a portfolio of 9 games. Youll provide leadership mentoring and guidance to other developers contribute to prioritization and estimations and serve as a point of contact between your team Catalog tech leadership and other teams at King.

With us youll get to work at the forefront of the mobile gaming business in an energized and lively environment. At King youre always right in the middle of the team contributing with not only your programming skills but also with your passion for games and how to build them. Naturally youll share your knowledge and skills with the rest of the team and King.

Some bite-sized bullet points of the job description are:

Design architect test and implement game features

Collaborate cross-craft through every stage of the P&O delivery

Improve the technical foundation of our games making it more efficient to develop new features and optimize existing ones across the portfolio

Deliver high quality and well-structured code

Lead a small group of developers with a focus on mentoring

Help with roadmaps timelines estimations and priorities

Share and collect knowledge across diverse teams in an open and collaborative environment

Skills to create thrills

You have a phenomenal passion for programming and are committed to quality and polish. You are genuinely passionate about making games developing new innovative features and solutions and game industry R&D - whether you have done so professionally already or are looking to join the industry! You need to care for the professional development of your peers and their wellbeing. As a developer you are also analytical and interested in understanding the whole tech stack.

Extensive experience in software development with a strong track record of technical ownership solving complex challenges and contributing to impactful solutions across teams and systems

Proven ability to design and deliver performant user-facing systems in a live production environment with a strong focus on stability and maintainability

Deep knowledge of C

Experience working with CMake

Excellent collaboration skills flexibility and ability to prioritize multiple tasks

Passion for software development and learning new technologies/languages

Bonus points

Build engineering experience (e.g. Jenkins)

Familiarity with DevOps principles

Experience working with game engines

Knowledge of mobile platforms and app stores in terms of development compliance topics publishing

Experience in agentic coding and other modern trends in software engineering

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.

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Craft:Job Description:Principal Client Developer (L12) Product TeamWe are looking for a Principal C Developer who thrives on exploring new insights at the forefront of mobile game innovation helping to build ground-breaking bite-sized entertainment for millions of players. Youll be part of the Catal...