Kong Studios
Game Development · Mobile Games
13open roles
$62Mlatest round · Venture round · Aug 2021 · 5 yr ago
3backers · Atinum Investment, Big Basin Capital
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Kong Studios is a game developer behind the adventure RPG Guardian Tales, which is played in some 230 countries on mobile and on Nintendo Switch. It has a Korean subsidiary in Seoul that hires game designers and software engineers for new game projects. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 13 open roles at Kong Studios. Kong Studios is headquartered in Los Angeles, United States. The latest round is Venture - Series Unknown of $62M, announced in 2021.
- Open roles
- 13Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $62MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Venture - Series Unknown · $62M · Aug 23, 2021SEC Form D filing · sec.gov
- Technologies in its job postings
- 13Named in its job postings
Official records
How Kong Studios hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Kong Studios scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$62M
1 round on record
Latest round
$62M
Venture round · Aug 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
13
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Atinum Investment, Big Basin Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
62 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
9/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 23, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $62M · SEC Form D
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2021 | $62M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Kong Studios, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Kwang Won SokExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Atinum Investment 
Big Basin Capital 
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Jobs
≈ $57k – $161k per year (Estimated) · In office · 5+ years exp · Seoul
C#
.NET
Game Dev
Unity
HLSL
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In office · Contractor · Seoul
JavaScript
C#
Node JS
.NET
Databases
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Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
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Amazon S3
Linux
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
25/100
Slowing
Open positions
13
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
43 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
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.
Operations
55% ▲
Backend
18% ▼
Games
18% ▲
QA
9% ▼
Financials
Total raised
$62M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | $62M | Details |
People
Kwang Won Sok
Executive Officer, Director
Seunghun Lee
Director
Phil Yoon
Director
Jeehyung Lee
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Kong Studios over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
13
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
C#100%
HLSL7%
Node JS7%
JavaScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
Unity33%
Next.js7%
React.js7%
Databases
MySQL7%
Cloud & platforms
.NET100%
AWS7%
Amazon EC27%
Amazon S37%
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News
Report
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Seoul
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Headquarters
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Los Angeles
United States
HQ
Seoul
South Korea
Regional office
13 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 54% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations, Backend, Games
대한민국 서울특별시 서초구 사임당로 157 릿타워
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