Senior Principal Software Engineer

King

Stockholm or Barcelona

Your role within the Kingdom

If you want to create amazing user experiences and entertainment for millions of players on the go, this is the right job for you.

As part of the Central Technology team in Candy Crush Soda Saga, you will both design Soda’s long-term architecture and bring it to life by implementing end-to-end systems directly in our client code base. This role bridges big-picture system design with hands-on development, ensuring robust, maintainable, and high-performance solutions. You’ll also be the one to deliver reference implementations that teams can immediately adopt across the code base.

Working closely with the tech leadership team, you will shape Soda’s technical strategy and ensure our architecture continues to evolve to support future success. Along the way, you’ll enjoy a creative, collaborative environment where your ideas are valued as much as your technical expertise.

Your responsibilities will include:

Auditing Soda’s architecture, designing new systems, and improving existing ones;
Taking full ownership of new systems from concept through production-ready code, delivering examples for adoption across the client code base;
Collaborating with the the rest of the Technical Leadership in Soda to align on strategy;
Contributing high-quality, well-structured code to the client code base;
Coaching colleagues and serving as a role model for technical excellence.

Skills to create thrills

We equally value a passion for making great games, extensive hands-on coding experience, software architecture and knack of sharing great ideas. Are you a passionate and creative teammate? You are:

Highly proficient in system design, with proven experience on architecting large and complex systems;
An expert in C++, with relevant experience of working with a large code bases;
Skilled at balancing architectural vision with pragmatic delivery, ensuring designs translate into production-ready solutions;
Passionate about games and would love to create the next big thing;
Driven by quality, polish, and pride in the solutions you deliver;
Proactive in taking technical ownership from design to implementation.