Senior Data Engineer (AI/ML) | Candy Core Gameplay en Barcelona

King makes great games that offer fun, bite- size entertainment experiences for everyone to enjoy! We have a new opportunity for an enthusiastic Senior Data Engineer (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) to work with the Candy Core Gameplay team participating in our Level Automation initiative.

You will be part of a cross- functional team of engineers constantly optimising the whole lifecycle of the 15,000+ levels in the Candy Crush Saga (played by millions of people all over the world, for over a decade and with a $20Bn lifetime revenue). This includes all the stages from ideation, understanding our players, creation of levels (by Level Designers), releasing them, maintaining and tweaking them later. We are introducing AI- powered solutions in close collaboration with King’s AI/ML Centre of Excellence.

You are eager to dig into technologies such as Python, BigQuery, Airflow, Kubernetes etc. We want a person that has knowledge in ML and knows the importance of data preparation and feature engineering for a ML project. You can generalise and see a common data solution from the incoming use- cases to ML Platform.

You will be joining a team that will work with simplifying the process of extracting data from the common data warehouse into ML ready features that will be used for training and deploying ML models.

We believe in: collaboration in a fun & friendly way, being fast & fluid over bureaucracy and staying humble, open and passionate.

Skills to create thrills

• Good understanding and hands- on experience with Python
• Knowledge in how to write services and applications
• SQL and query optimization skills and good understanding of data modelling techniques
• Google Cloud Platform including BigQuery or experience with other cloud computing provider
• Self- starter with a great drive and a curious and inquisitive mind- set
• Willing to step outside your comfort zone to broaden your skills and learn new technologies
• Highly collaborative work style and open to share your knowledge, receiving and giving feedback, performing code reviews and so on
• You will need to be able to work independently on complex problems and be able to clearly communicate your ideas and solutions.

Bonus points

• Experience with building ML pipelines
• Experience with ML concepts such as feature engineering, normalisation, splits, etc
• Experience working with ML Feature stores
• Experience orchestrating data pipelines using Airflow
• Experience working with solutions of major public cloud providers, preferably Google Cloud.
• Knowledge with Google Dataproc, PySpark, Spark
• Knowledge in Java
• Containerizing workloads and running these on Kubernetes (GKE)
• Managing infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Automating builds, tests and deployments (Google Cloud Build)
• Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch or any other ML framework

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, Los Angeles, 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 recently acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level- up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.