Technical Artist │Farm Heroes Saga in Barcelona

Farm Heroes Saga is one of King's biggest and most cherished game titles. We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Artist to join our team based in Stockholm, Berlin, London or Barcelona.

You will be part of a dynamic core team of technical artists and programmers, working on improving and supporting King’s game Farm Hero Saga. As a technical artist, you will be a key member of the group, helping solve problems, design and optimize features and workflows, create shaders, build tools, support content creators and push boundaries.

You will also be part of the wider Technical Art Community at King, a unique environment where we share and support each other to achieve our full potential. At King, we value our personal growth very highly.

Your role within our Kingdom

• Help develop the artwork, tools, techniques and pipeline for the products.

• Help mentor more junior members of the team.

• Work with the team to analyze the visual requirements and priorities of projects and provide effective solutions, engaging in collective responsibility for maintaining a high- quality product.

• Our product is live and is doing new releases often. Part of our passion is to make sure our product is at the top in tech and art. You will be part of the process to make updates ensuring the product release cycle.

• Support artists in their daily tasks, keep documentation up to date, create tutorials and workshops.

Skills to Create thrills

• Familiarity with game engine workflows and a good understanding of real- time rendering processes and pipelines (experience with GLSL/HLSL)

• Good scripting ability (e.g. Python, Javascript)

• Proactive finding tasks, taking ownership of them, finding solutions and driving them to completion.

• A proactive communicator, willing to give and receive constructive feedback

• Proven track record of both artistic and technical creativity with a real passion for solving problems and optimizing games content for memory and performance

• Good knowledge of one major 3D and/or animation software packages (Maya, Blender, Spine preferred)

• Good knowledge of 2D creation software (Photoshop, Illustrator)

• Desire to push visual quality or streamline workflows

• Experience in crafting various game content (animations/modeling/etc)

An online portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skills would be appreciated.

Tasty Bonus Skills

• Experience with custom game engines

• Experienced in working in an Agile / Scrum environment

• Knowledge of typical development languages (C++, C#, Rust)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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.