Senior Software Engineer (Python)

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Senior Software Engineer (Python)

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At King, everyone has a role in Making the World Playful. We play as a team and collectively shape our future. From business modeling to smart accounting, commercial insight to cross-team collaboration, we help the Kingdom continue to dream bigger. With fresh ideas, creative thinking and a drive to see new possibilities, when one of our games becomes a global phenomenon, it’s a success we all share in.

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer (Python) to join the King Finance Data Lab unit. This role requires a strong background in software engineering, with a focus on data-driven applications, infrastructure, and high-performance solutions. You will be working with our dynamic data science team to build and maintain efficient data pipelines, optimize our backend systems, and contribute to our overall data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions with a strong focus on data engineering.
• Work extensively with Python to implement backend systems, process data, and build APIs.
• Create, manage, and optimize data pipelines, ensuring seamless data flow across platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet project requirements and optimize performance.
• Use SQL for efficient data manipulation and querying within our database environments.
• Deploy and manage applications using Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Document processes and best practices for reproducible and high-quality results.

Skills to create thrills

• Proven experience as a Software Engineer, demonstrating expertise in designing and implementing scalable and reliable solutions
• Extensive hands-on experience developing with Python as the primary programming language, showcasing advanced knowledge and application in professional projects.
• Strong proficiency in SQL for data management and querying.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for deployment and container orchestration.

Bonus skills

• Experience collaborating with Data Scientists to build production data products
• Experience with BigQuery for large-scale data processing.
• Knowledge of Airflow for orchestrating complex workflows and ETL processes.
• Familiarity with UX/Frontend development to improve user experience and optimize application interfaces.
• Proficiency in other data engineering tools and cloud technologies.

With the holidays almost upon us and festivities in full swing, we hope you are looking forward to some well-earned time off us much as we are! We wanted to let you know replies may be a little slow over the festive period - but rest assured, we look forward to responding swiftly in the new year.

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.