Senior Principal Data Visualisation Engineer | Candy Crush Saga

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Job Description:

Candy Crush Saga is one of the biggest games in the world, entertaining millions of players every day, and we are looking for people who are as excited as we are about making it even bigger and better. Working in a talented cross-functional team, you will play a key role in the development of Dashboards, tools and analytical products to deliver insight and business information.

We’re looking for a Senior Principal Data Visualization Engineer to help us deliver groundbreaking new Dashboards and tools and support our suite of artisan built products and front end tools. If you’re excited by pushing the boundaries of visualization in business intelligence and reporting then this is the role for you!

We are a complete end to end Data Warehouse team given autonomy to design and build products to help our business users understand and make decisions on our high volume data.

Your role within our Kingdom:

• You are a developer with a genuine interest in developing both your code and design skills and leading others to do the same

• Build new Dashboards using our in-house framework

• Support our current suite of Dashboards and front end products

• Lead on and own our front end design strategy

• Provide direction to our viz engineers on advancing the design of innovative data visualizations

• Act as the technical team lead for viz engineers

• Define a roadmap of front end products and framework development

• Translate designs into functioning, pixel-perfect code

• Support our web tools

Skills to create thrills

• Knowledge of Javascript and/or Typescript

• Knowledge of HTML and CSS

• An appreciation for design and a desire to make your work fit design specifications

• Awareness of data visualization best practices

• Experience with React, Next.js or another frontend framework (Angular, Svelte, etc.)

• Experience with a data visualization library (echarts, highcharts, etc.)

Bonus points

• Familiarity with any of:

• SQL

• node.js

• Web graphics APIs (SVG, canvas, etc.)

• WebGL

• d3.js

• cloud computing

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.