Senior Software Developer Level 1

Games Global builds the platforms that power world-class online gaming experiences. We need a Senior Developer who is ready to lead from the front, and who understands that great engineering is not just about writing clean code. It is about solving real business problems, driving meaningful efficiency gains, and delivering continuous value to the product and the people who use it. In this role you will be expected to think like a business problem solver first and a technologist second. You will constantly ask whether the work you are doing is making the product faster, leaner, or more valuable. If you have the scars to prove you have shipped complex systems and the instinct to make them better, we want to hear from you. Our stack: .NET 8 Web API backend (Onion Architecture, EF Core, PostgreSQL on AWS RDS), React + TypeScript frontend, deployed on AWS EKS via Kubernetes and Helm. We ship through Azure DevOps pipelines and observe everything through CloudWatch, Loki, and Grafana. The codebase is clean, opinionated, and genuinely fun to work in.

• Identify and drive optimisation opportunities across the product. You are not just maintaining systems, you are actively making them faster, more efficient, and more valuable to the business.
• Work in a Kanban environment on a mix of new product features and improvements to existing systems, always asking how each piece of work moves the needle for the business.
• Lead the design and delivery of software across the full product, from requirements through to handoff to DevOps for deployment.
• Write and own your tests. Quality starts with you, and you will work with the QA team to make sure test plans are thorough and cover the full scope of what you have built.
• Drive mandatory peer code reviews, using them as a tool to raise the bar for the whole team and develop the people around you.
• Safeguard the architecture, keeping the technical vision aligned to business goals and calling it out when it drifts.
• Own production issues when they arise. Scope the problem fast, coordinate the fix, and make sure it does not happen again.
• Coach and mentor team members, and contribute actively to evolving the team's standards and ways of working.
• Keep documentation up to date. The team depends on what you write down.

• 5+ years of software development experience (or 7+ with a 1-year certification, or 8+ total).
• A genuine business problem-solving mindset. You understand that code is a means to an end, and that end is value.
• A track record of spotting and delivering efficiency and optimisation improvements, not just feature work.
• Solid hands-on experience with .NET and ideally some familiarity with React, or the confidence to pick it up fast.
• Deep comfort with software design patterns and the ability to reason through complex codebases.
• Strong grasp of the product lifecycle, including production operations and what it costs to run them.
• Sharp communication skills. You can connect technical decisions to business outcomes for any audience.
• A coaching mindset. You get genuine satisfaction from helping others grow.
• Resilience under pressure and a bias toward action over analysis paralysis.