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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

• Job Title - Senior Software Engineer

• Department - Data & Engineering

• Reports Into - Lead Software Engineer

• Applications Closing Date - 08/11/2023

• Location - Hybrid / Leamington Spa

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is a games publisher and developer based in Leamington Spa, UK, which boasts more than 1 billion installs on mobile platforms with games such as Teacher Simulator, Draw it, Bake It, Shootout 3D, Rocket Sky! and Line Up: Draw the Criminal. The company also publishes a growing catalogue of PC and console titles including Eternal Hope, Tens, Scathe, and Wildmender along with the upcoming titles ROBOBEAT, Space Chef, The Precinct and The Spirit of the Samurai.

Founded by games industry icon and Codemasters co-founder David Darling CBE, who is joined by a fast-growing team of global gaming experts with studios in the UK, India, Portugal and China and remote team members all over the world, Kwalee is on the lookout for high-quality games to publish on all platforms and encourages developers to get in touch.

Outside of its games, Kwalee is also highly active in the industry, as an ambassador of not-for-profit organisation Women in Games and a regular supporter of the charity SpecialEffect.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
• A dog friendly office (There’s dog-free areas too, if pooches aren’t your thing)
• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win
• Private medical cover
• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
• On site gym - take care of yourself
• Relocation support - available
• VISA Sponsorship - available
• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays!

• An amazingly well equipped office with ping pong, darts, pool tables and video games while keeping refreshed with free snacks and a stocked kitchen (we have every kind of milk imaginable)

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a Software Engineer in the Data Science Team, you will build tools and develop technology that deliver data products to a team of strategists, marketing experts and game developers. You will design, build, test and deploy products which serve a company fuelled by data.

Your Team Mates

The Engineering team is central in developing the core technology which enabled the operation of our games and the intelligence behind their growth and monetisation. We are a cross functional team that consists of architects, engineers, analysts and data scientists.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build tools and develop technology that deliver products to a team of strategists, marketing experts and game developers. You will design, build, test and deploy products which serve a company fuelled by data.

As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for low level design and will play a key role in the architecture and roadmap of large complex applications.

• Develop the essential components of Kwalee’s core game software, including LiveOps tools for optimising gameplay.
• Work at the core of a talented and growing Data and Engineering department
• Unlock value by collaborating with marketing and development teams across the company
• Manipulate vast databases of player interaction and performance marketing data to power new products

Your Hard Skills

• A proven track record of writing high quality program code in Python (5+ Years).
• Experience designing complex, highly performant applications in the cloud
• Experience dealing with data pipelines and ETL processes
• Desire to learn new technology and solve hard problems
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• An avid interest in the development, marketing and monetisation of mobile games

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all genders, races and backgrounds - and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together.

If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France.

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!