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Lead Server Engineer - Racing
2 years ago
Lead Server Engineer
At Naturalmotion, we make games that wow people! We innovate to create experiences that previously were impossible and that would not exist without us. We take pride in making titles that reach large audiences and in creating communities that last.
We are looking for an experienced Lead Server Engineer to join our world-class team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for large-scale high-availability systems, a devotion to software craftsmanship, an unwavering commitment to quality, and the desire to have their work seen by tens of millions of people worldwide
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
- Professional experience in software development for mobile and/or web applications
- Code review our team and help us execute our ambitious plans
- Able to work collaboratively with engineering, design, user experience, product and analytics teams to identify needs, evaluate requirements, and implement sophisticated software solutions
- Experience with stateful services (i.e Socket Servers)
- Able to work on multi-day tasks and is aware of the tech plan for the Racing server team
- Able to communicate with key partners and colleagues
- Kubernetes experience within production
- Experience in AWS and have a deep understanding of their product offering
- Experience with wide column stores (e.g DynamoDb, Azure Table Storage, Cassandra)
Experience Required:
- Docker Experience
- Experience of developing web and mobile applications on scalable microservices architecture
- You are an authority on Kubernetes and building scalable distributed Microservices
- You are an advocate for making data informed system design decisions
- Experience working with TDD
Nice to haves:
- Have worked in, or have a strong interest in the gaming industry
- Interest in infrastructure deployment and monitoring
What do we offer?
- Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and Zynga stock allowance
- Contributory pension scheme
- 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Private medical care and healthcare cash plan
- Life insurance and critical illness insurance
- Flexible working hours
- Free fruit, snacks & soft drinks provided daily
- Annual season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
- Summer and Christmas parties
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