Senior Backend Developer | Shared Tech | 12 month FTC

King; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

King in Stockholm is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to provide temporary cover within King’s Game Platform Data team. You will own reliable services, collaborate with product and engineering partners, and drive critical backend initiatives in a fast-moving environment.

This hands-on role focuses on building and maintaining telemetry data platforms, resolving production issues, and promoting strong engineering practices for quality, observability, and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend or platform engineering experience with production systems.
• Strong fundamentals: maintainable services, high-quality code, testing and reviews.
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Operational mindset: incident response, monitoring, reliability improvements.
• Ability to work independently and communicate with technical and non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve backend services and platform capabilities for Telemetry Data.
• Investigate production issues and contribute to operational support.
• Collaborate with engineers, data teams, product partners, and game teams to define requirements.
• Review code, contribute to design, promote engineering practices for quality and observability.
• Document systems and procedures to support handover and continuity.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs & streaming pipelines

Operational mindset

Code review & quality

Clear communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Java

Kubernetes

GCP

Terraform

Kafka/Confluent

BigQuery

SQL

Job description

Job Description

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Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to provide temporary cover within King’s Game Platform Data team. The team provides King’s telemetry platform, enabling our games to define, capture, validate, transport, and manage player-event data so it can be trusted by analytics and downstream systems.

You will help ensure continuity across backend development, operational support, and key strategic initiatives.

This is a hands‑on role for an experienced engineer who can take ownership of reliable services and integrations, collaborate closely with product and engineering partners, and make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.

Your role within the Kingdom

• Build, maintain, and improve backend services and platform capabilities that support Telemetry Data.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues; participate in operational support and improve service reliability.
• Work with engineers, data teams, product partners, and game teams to clarify requirements and deliver pragmatic solutions.
• Review code, contribute to technical design, and promote strong engineering practices for quality, observability, and maintainability.
• Document systems, decisions, and operational procedures to support effective handover and team continuity.

Skills To Create Thrills

• Significant professional experience as a backend or platform engineer, including ownership of production systems.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: designing maintainable services, writing high-quality code, testing, debugging, and code review.
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, and Streaming pipelines.
• A strong operational mindset, including incident investigation, monitoring, and reliability improvements.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners.
• A collaborative approach and willingness to support a team through a time-bound transition.

Tech Stack

Strong Java experience and familiarity with cloud-native technologies. Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka/Confluent, SQL/Big Query, or similar technologies is beneficial.

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.