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Overview
King is a London games company founded in 2003 that created Candy Crush Saga, one of the highest grossing mobile games of all time. It operates live puzzle titles played by hundreds of millions of people with studios in London, Stockholm and Barcelona. The company is part of Activision Blizzard within Microsoft Gaming.
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Unmasking TeamPCP: Software Supply Chain Attacks - Flare
Flare's Emerging Threats Team walks through the deanonymization of TeamPCP, a prolific threat actor behind major software supply chain attacks.
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Burger King And BarkleyOKRP Dethrone The King And Unlock Brand Love
Burger King posts strong results on a campaign that leans into an honest approach. The Creepy King character attracted attention but failed to garner consumer trial.
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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King's It, dies aged 80
A prolific performer across stage, screen and TV, the actor starred in Legend, Clue and It, but will always be associated with the flamboyantly camp rock'n'roll musical in which he made his breakthrough
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Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 71
Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online
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King Tut was buried with more than a hundred pairs of underwear-all tailored to fit his massive butt
Plus crusty white dogs and other weird things we learned this week.
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CachyOS is King Now, and the Distro World Settles
Linux Gaming, Steam Deck Gaming Boiling Steam
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King Charles' Death Accidentally Announced On Radio, Erring Staff Leaves 16 Minutes Of Dead Air In Panic
Radio Caroline mistakenly announced King Charles's death due to a staff error during maintenance, prompting Ofcom to rule a breach of broadcasting rules..
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at King over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
63
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
77/100AI adopter
Languages
Python30%
C++25%
SQL25%
C#15%
Frameworks & libraries
Unity35%
React.js5%
Apache ECharts5%
Celery5%
Databases
BigQuery10%
Google BigQuery10%
PostgreSQL5%
Cloud & platforms
GCP40%
Kubernetes30%
AWS20%
Looker10%
AI & ML
Claude10%
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Full King tech stack
63 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$317k
Typical range
$317k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Principal
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principal | 1 | $317k | $317k |
Highest paying role
Principal Software Engineer | Xbox Media (San Francisco, CA)
$317k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
86/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
19
21 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
7 days
faster than 74% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Games
46% ▲
Backend
19% ▼
Data Science
12% ▲
AI/ML
4% ▲
Leadership
4% ▲
Design
4% ▲
Actively hiring for Games (+12 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Platform Engineering to stack
Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Oct 2026
Added CMake to stack
Oct 2026
Added Agile to stack
Oct 2026
+18 jobs in a week
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
4
Busiest office
London
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London
United Kingdom
HQ
5 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 80% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Games, Customer Success
Barcelona
Spain
Engineering / R&D
8 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 88% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Games, Backend, Industrial Engineering
Stockholm
Sweden
Regional office
5 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Games
San Francisco
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $317k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Jobs
$171k – $317k per year • Hybrid • 15+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
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In office • Barcelona
Java
C#
C++
Apache Kafka
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $52k – $153k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • Stockholm
Java
SQL
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Kubernetes
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≈ $76k – $171k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • Stockholm
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Jenkins
Buildkite
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In office • Barcelona
Python
C++
Qt
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Windows
Game Dev
Unity
QA
Sentry
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≈ $36k – $97k per year (Estimated) • In office • Barcelona
Python
C#
C++
Jenkins
Game Dev
Unity
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≈ $42k – $124k per year (Estimated) • In office • Barcelona
SQL
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≈ $55k – $146k per year (Estimated) • In office • London
Unity
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Blender
ZBrush
Substance 3D Painter
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≈ $53k – $143k per year (Estimated) • In office • London
Unity
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Blender
Figma
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