Backend Software Development Engineer in London

Get to know The Pokémon Company International. The Pokémon Company International, a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company in Japan, manages the property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular children's entertainment properties in the world.

Job Summary: This role will be responsible for the development of our Pokémon Center eCommerce website, building new features that turn fandom into unforgettable experiences and helping millions of Trainers discover, collect, and celebrate what they love.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, development, and optimisation of complex systems and features.
• Design and develop scalable solutions and mentor team members on best practices.
• Partner with product and leadership teams to define technical strategies and deliver impactful features.
• Drive quality through advanced testing methodologies and oversee deployments.
• Own production incident management, proactively improving reliability and performance.
• Champion continuous improvement, influencing architecture decisions and technical direction.

What You’ll Bring

• Excellent communication skills tailored to both technical and business audiences.
• Deep programming experience with a focus on well‐maintained, performant, and reusable code.
• Experience of cloud‐native architecture, platform engineering, and application monitoring in highly available environments.
• A passion for building resilient, scalable systems that support high‐traffic and low latency platforms.
• Experience navigating incident response and collaborating across teams to reactively resolve outages.
• Experience of the full development lifecycle from concept to delivery through to maintenance.

The Technology We Use

• Elastic Path for our headless eCommerce platform.
• Fluent Commerce as our Order Management Service.
• Java as our primary backend language with JavaScript & TypeScript on the frontend.
• RESTful and GraphQL APIs and the Spring ecosystem.
• JUnit and Karate for our automated testing.
• AWS as our cloud provider.
• Datadog, CloudWatch and New Relic for monitoring and observability.
• GitLab for our Git management and CI/CD pipelines.
• Scaled agile (SAFe) as our development methodology.

Base Salary Range

For this role, new hires generally start between £65,500.00 – £78,000.00 per year. The full range is £65,500.00 – £98,000.00 per year. This range is applicable for the labour market where the role is intended to be hired. The final base salary is directly related to the candidate's qualifications and professional experience uniquely.

How you’ll be successful

• Passion for Pokémon: Develops an understanding of the Pokémon brand, the impact it has on our people, culture, business, fans, and communities, and applying that knowledge and passion to everything you do.
• Challenging the Expected: Approaches challenges with curiosity and creativity, embracing the possibility of failure as an opportunity to learn something new, develop innovative ideas, solve complex problems and identify unique opportunities.
• Integrity and Respect: Demonstrates integrity and respect by leading with empathy, listening to others, seeking out different perspectives, and taking personal responsibility for decisions, actions, and results.
• Dedicated to Quality: Takes ownership to maintain and promote high standards, looks for new ways to learn and improve, and embraces a growth mindset to seek and apply feedback from others in an effort to continuously improve.
• Building Relationships: Develops and strengthens relationships, adopting a "team first" mentality and working collaboratively to solve problems and meet shared goals.
• Delighting Customers: Listens and understands the interests and needs of our customers and stakeholders, making them feel heard and important, and embracing these learnings to continue delivering a unique Pokémon experience.

What to expect

• An innovative culture driven by impact, delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Company events that celebrate the spirit of Pokémon.
• Competitive cash‐based compensation programs.
• 100% employer‐paid healthcare premiums for you.
• Generous paid family leave.
• Employer‐paid life insurance.
• Employer‐paid long and short‐term income protection insurance.
• US Employees: 401k Employer Matching.
• UK/IRE/MX Employees: Pension Employer Contributions.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Commuter benefit.
• LinkedIn Learning.
• Comprehensive relocation package for certain roles.
• Hybrid work environment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this role. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

For roles in the United Kingdom, candidates will need the right to work. In some cases, and for some roles, the Company may be able to arrange a visa. For roles in Ireland, this role requires candidates to have the right to live and work in the Republic of Ireland. However, we welcome applications from all nationalities and may consider supporting an employment permit application, in appropriate and suitable cases.

The Pokémon Company International is committed to the inclusion of all qualified applicants for consideration in our job application process. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre‐employment testing, or a job interview, or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at accommodationrequest_ta@pokemon.com.