At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our tech team to build and support web APIs for our game engine.
- Company: Dynamic gaming company with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: 22 days holiday, private medical insurance, and enhanced family leave.
- Other info: Exciting opportunities for career growth in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make an impact in the gaming industry while working with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript required.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 70000 £ per year.
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled back-end Senior Online Developer to join our tech team, to help build and support internal and external web APIs to support our game engine team.
The successful candidate will join a small team and use their specialist Java Script knowledge to be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and system design to implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
You will be working on building internal tools as well as public facing APIs.
We are looking for a talented senior or lead who has experience building performant and distributed backend APIs, and efficiently utilising 3rd party services.
They will be comfortable communicating with other teams to fix bugs and resolve issues.
This role can be based at our Oxford or Warwick studios. Relocation package is available.
- Key Outcomes
- Produce performant and well documented code.
- Successfully develop and deploy new tools to support our game teams.
- Responsive to bugs and issues as they arise and provide speedy resolution.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and deploy web applications to support our in-house engine team.
- Maintain and improve existing tools.
- Develop integrations with third party APIs.
- Support our application deployments.
- Communicate with other teams.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Node. js, Java Script and Type Script.
- Knowledge of front-end frameworks such as Vue and React.
- Experience with databases such as My SQL and No SQL databases.
- Familiarity with AWS or equivalent cloud environments.
- Experience with version control systems (Git/Perforce desirable).
- Demonstrated capacity to quickly learn new technologies.
- Comfortable modifying/maintaining applications written in other languages such as PHP is desirable.
- Experience writing serverless functions (AWS Lambda/Azure Functions) is a bonus.
Benefits
- 22 days holidays plus Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & bank holidays (increasing with service).
- Private medical insurance, healthcare cash plan including dental and vision.
- Life assurance, income protection & critical illness cover.
- Enhanced family leave.
- Interest free, tax free loans.
- Enhanced pension scheme.
- EAP – range of mental health and wellbeing support.
- Right to Work Statement
This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK.
We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship, either now or in the future.
Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.
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