Software Engineer
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our CPE Platform vertical, working within Core Products and Experiences. In this role, you’ll contribute to a multidisciplinary team building reliable, engaging products for millions of players. You’ll bring some hands-on engineering experience, a practical approach to solving problems, and a willingness to learn from and support others. You’ll help deliver well-structured software, take part in technical discussions, and contribute to documentation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the team. We are a growth company so there are plenty of opportunities for you to learn and grow with us, plus we have remote-first working and a generous paid leave policy to enjoy your downtime. We’re committed to making sure everyone who works here can maintain a healthy work/life balance.
- You’ll work as part of our Session Management team, helping build and improve backend services that support reliable, scalable customer sessions.
- You’ll learn how our systems work and contribute to well-scoped features, fixes and improvements with support from more experienced engineers.
- You’ll write clear, maintainable backend code using Java or similar languages, following team standards and best practices.
- You’ll help build and improve APIs, services and database-backed functionality that can handle high volumes of traffic.
- You’ll test your changes carefully and look for simple ways to make our services more reliable, observable and easier to support.
- You’ll take part in code reviews, design discussions, planning sessions and team ceremonies, asking questions and sharing ideas.
- You’ll investigate bugs and support issues, working with the team to understand root causes and make practical improvements.
- You’ll learn about scaling systems, databases, caching and cloud infrastructure through hands-on work with the team.
- You’ll keep documentation up to date so others can understand how our services work and how to support them.
- You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product partners and stakeholders to deliver changes that improve the reliability and performance of session management.
- You’ll bring curiosity, humility and a willingness to learn, while growing your engineering judgement and technical confidence over time.
- Some experience building backend software through work, internships, placements, bootcamps, university projects or personal projects (required).
- An understanding of Java or a similar object-oriented programming language, and an interest in developing backend services and APIs (required).
- Familiarity with databases and SQL, with an interest in learning more about data modelling, performance and scaling (required).
- Awareness of common data structures, algorithms and software design principles (required).
- An interest in distributed systems, reliability, monitoring and how high-traffic backend systems operate in production (required).
- Familiarity with cloud technologies, containers or CI/CD is helpful, but not required (nice-to-have).
- An understanding of testing basics and a willingness to write tests as part of everyday development (required).
- Comfortable working in a team environment, asking questions, receiving feedback and learning from others (required).
- A practical approach to problem solving and a desire to leave code and documentation clearer than you found it (required).
- Enthusiasm for working on backend systems that support customer-facing products at scale (required).
- Remote-first working.
- Generous paid leave policy.
- 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.
- Clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level.
- Supportive manager.
- Loads of learning opportunities.
- Great financial package including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy.
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