Overview

As a Software Engineer at King, you design, build, and maintain backend services and platforms used across multiple games. You collaborate with product, design, and game teams to deliver scalable, reliable systems with strong maintainability. You'll work on a mix of backend services, APIs, event-driven architectures, and potential AI-enabled features to enhance player support and game ecosystems.

This role offers impact across a broad technology stack and a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration. You will help shape architecture and engineering practices while delivering high-quality software at scale.

Responsabilidades Design, build, and maintain software used across multiple King games and services

Develop scalable backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, and reusable platform components

Design integrations and data flows across Player Support, game, and internal platform systems

Own features from design to testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support

Improve scalability, resilience, observability, and maintainability of existing systems

Collaborate with Product Owners, designers, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions

Contribute to architecture, technical discussions, code reviews, and engineering standards





Improve software quality through automation, testing, and continuous delivery

Explore and integrate AI capabilities into player support products, workflows, and internal tools

Requisitos principales Professional software development experience, ideally with Java or another backend-oriented language

Experience building scalable backend services and APIs

Knowledge of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures

Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, data modeling and performance considerations

Ability to design reliable integrations between systems

Clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

Proficiency with modern engineering practices (Git, CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews)

Experience with reliability, observability, monitoring, and production operations

Experience with cloud-based systems and modern deployment practices

Ability to collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams

Experience using AI capabilities or AI-assisted tools in development or delivery

Proficiency in English

Curiosity

Adaptability

Problem-solving

Java or other backend language

Backend services and APIs

Distributed systems and event-driven architectures

📌 Software Engineer | Game Services (Barcelona)
🏢 King Digital Entertainment
📍 Barcelona