Senior Software Engineer | New Games

960 MIDASPLAYER.COM LIMITED; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

King is seeking a Senior Unity Developer to join the team behind our brand‑new game, taking ownership of key technical initiatives across systems, architecture, and pipelines. You will work with designers and engineers to shape a scalable foundation, balancing quick needs with long‑term health of the project.

You bring deep Unity and C# expertise, experience with mobile development, and a proactive mindset to guide code quality, performance, and maintainability while helping others grow.

Qualifications

• Extensive software development experience.
• Strong Unity and C# expertise.
• Ability to adapt to new codebases and architectures.
• Experience with scalable game systems and pipelines.
• Excellent collaboration and communication.
• Passion for games and proactive problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Own complex technical initiatives spanning multiple systems and areas.
• Clarify requirements, define approaches, coordinate contributions, and drive delivery.
• Mentor engineers and establish practical standards for code quality and maintainability.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and other disciplines to understand needs and improve systems.
• Improve workflows, tooling, and pipelines to support the product.
• Balance immediate development needs with long-term project health.

Skills

Extensive software development

Unity

C#

Software architecture

Complex codebases

Game tools & pipelines

Mobile development

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Verbal and written communication

Multitasking

Proactive mindset

Passion for games

Tools

Unity Editor extension

Mobile runtime optimization

Procedural world generation

Full-stack development

Rendering techniques

Job description

Craft: Technology & Development Job Description: Join the team behind our brand-new game as a Senior Unity Developer. Working closely with a small team of developers, you will help shape technical approaches and lead initiatives across core systems, architecture, tools, and development pipelines. Your work will help build a scalable and maintainable technical foundation for the game. You combine deep technical expertise with strong judgment, making decisions that balance immediate development needs with the long-term health of the project. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, solving complex problems, and turning broad goals into clear technical plans. You are proactive, take responsibility for outcomes, and bring people together around a shared approach. You communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders and help other engineers grow through practical guidance and collaboration.

Your role within the Kingdom You will take ownership of complex technical initiatives that span multiple systems and areas of the game. You will clarify requirements, define approaches, coordinate contributions, and drive delivery, remaining actively involved in architecture and implementation. You approach development with a service-oriented mindset, ensuring that the systems and tools you build enable others and support a stable and scalable product. You will collaborate with engineers, designers, and other disciplines to understand their needs and identify opportunities to improve systems, workflows, tooling, and pipelines. You will provide technical guidance across the codebase and help resolve challenging problems, moving comfortably between high-level design and implementation details. You will strengthen the engineering team by mentoring engineers, sharing knowledge, and helping establish practical standards for code quality, performance, and maintainability. You will support others in taking ownership and making sound technical decisions, while driving improvements in how we build and operate our technology.

Skills to create thrills

• Extensive software development experience
• Strong experience with Unity and C#
• Strong understanding of software architecture and the ability to quickly adapt to new codebases
• Experience working with complex codebases and scalable systems
• Experience creating and supporting tools and pipelines for game development
• Experience with mobile development and platform best practices
• Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines, including designers and engineers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Flexibility and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• A proactive mindset and the ability to drive initiatives independently
• A desire to learn, grow, and continuously improve
• A passion for games

Bonus skills

• Experience extending the Unity Editor
• Experience optimizing runtime performance, especially on mobile
• Experience with procedural world generation
• Versatility across multiple areas of game development, such as game design, rendering, world building, feature development, and tools
• Experience with full-stack development

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram.

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We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined. We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play. If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful! Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

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