Web Developer
The role:
We're looking for Web Server Developers to join our Online Services team and help develop our growing portfolio of online game services, web sites, and corporate information applications, hosted on public cloud services and the office intranet. The successful applicants would work in an enthusiastic, agile environment across a range of new and existing game and corporate projects, and will be able to expand their skills and experience by working with a variety of technologies, languages, applications, servers and databases.
Prior experience of being employed in the games industry is not necessary, although it will help to have experience of playing games with online components. We are looking for applicants that can demonstrate they are keen to learn, develop, code and maintain systems.
This role offers a great chance to explore a variety of technologies and server software to solve different problems, with lots of opportunities to work with different scales of server systems and grow into new areas of responsibility.
Key accountabilities
- Help develop high performance, high availability websites and applications to support our growing catalogue of online games
- Efficiently develop easy to use intranet applications to help organise the studio's information and make it available to our colleagues and partners
- Develop, administer and maintain server tasks using public cloud services
- Help debug and maintain existing distributed server systems
About you
- Self motivated and inquisitive
- Enjoys building things and taking responsibility for them
- Work collaboratively with the Online team and other stakeholders to deliver high quality websites, tools and associated systems
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members
- Excellent attention to detail
- A quick learner who is willing to adapt to new tools and frameworks.
Qualifications, skills and experience
- Essential:
- Degree qualified in a relevant numerate discipline such as Computer Science, Maths, Engineering or a strong portfolio of project work
- Able to program
- Familiar with web based languages and tools such as Javascript, HTML and CSS
- Experience using relational database technologies such as SQL
- Good documentation skills Proficient in Linux and Windows environments
- Experience using version control software such as Git or SVN
- Experience of using dynamic scripting languages such as Python, PHP, Java, C#, Javascript or Ruby
- Containerized Services
- Working with cloud-based systems such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Desirable:
- Recent experience with modern web frameworks such as Slim, Drupal, Symfony, React or Laravel
- Working with public and private RESTful API’s
- NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, Redis or MongoDB
- Business analysis or project management
- Working with public and private RESTful APIs