Game Engine Tools Developer

We are looking for a Game Engine Tool Developer that takes pride in creating the very best tools to support in the creation of the very best bite-sized entertainment for millions of users.

Your role within our great Kingdom

With us you’ll get to work at the forefront of the casual social gaming business, in a growing, energized and fun environment. At King, you’re always smack in the middle of the game development, contributing with not only your crafted programming skills but also with your passion for games, tools and how to build them.

We are looking for a tool developer to work with our "Fiction Factory" game engine, used in games reaching hundreds of millions of users. The role involves communication with the internal game teams and making sure our architecture can handle their current and future needs gracefully.

As a developer you have an interest in understanding the whole tech stack, you have good analytical capabilities, you write well-structured code and are comfortable working on complicated code base. As you will be working on our Game Engine Editor, a great understanding of usability, design and front end development is required. We work in an agile and iterative Scrum process with continuous releases to the live environment so you will see the impact of your work almost immediately. You are passionate about system and tool development, new technologies, the internet and games in particular.

Responsibilities

Take technical and usability responsibility for the Game Engine Tools:

Architect, design, implement and test editor features

Maintain and optimize new and existing editor features

Produce high quality and well-structured code

Skills to create thrills

Proven experience in development of user centric tools

Experience in developing for Windows and Mac OS

Excellent C++ knowledge

Great UI/UX understanding

Happy to work in an agile development environment

Works effectively in teams, both local and geographically distributed

Excellent communicator in English

Tasty bonus skills

Experience with tool development using Qt

Great Python / PySide /PyQt knowledge

Experience in game engine development

Experience in working with memory / performance critical applications

Experience from embedded, concurrent or high performance systems

Our Kingdom

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games. We have developed more than 200 fun titles, and our games are played and enjoyed all around the world. King has game studios in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Malmö, Seattle, and Stockholm along with offices in Bucharest, Malta, San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. King is an independent unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), which acquired King in February 2016.

Want to join the team?

Please send us your CV by clicking the ‘Apply now’ button. All applications must be in English.

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