Java Backend Developer

Your role within our Kingdom
We are looking for a talented person to join our team working with the backend systems. Tasks within the team vary greatly but include

Working King’s internal Java server frameworks
Developing and maintaining support systems for our game services
Developing and maintaining services and libraries used by game teams and business
DevOps and incident response
Foundational work to handle deploying and running our servers in the data center
Working with game teams to enable the features they want to build
Scaling and tuning our services to handle the high loads we put on them
Maintaining and improving our existing code base

As a new member of the team we offer a unique opportunity to be involved hands on and learn as you go. The wide responsibilities of the team give a wide array of challenges to conquer and King offers many opportunities for training and personal development.

Skills to create thrills
Degree in Computer Science or similar
Minimum 2 years experience as developer working with Java
Experience operating a backend system with live users
Comfortable working in a linux environment
Excellent communication skills in English
Bonus points
Experience working with message queues or streaming technology. (Kafka)
Experience working with databases (MySQL)
Experience integrating 3rd party APIs over IP
Experience making libraries and APIs for other developers to use

Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. Every day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to create the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. If you think this is something you can help us achieve, let’s talk.