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Server Developer

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a skilled and experienced Server Developer who likes working on complex technical challenges in small teams. We seek individuals who love technology and can genuinely work proactively and autonomously.

You will be working in a small cross functional games team, helping with designing features, making decisions and solving complex scalable problems. You should be a great communicator and enjoy working in a fast paced and Agile environment. This is a great opportunity to develop games with some incredibly passionate and creative people, so a passion for technology and games would be great.

Why Space Ape is right for you:

At Space Ape we pride ourselves on our passion and the trust we place in our people. We look for driven, productive, team players who are relentless in their pursuit of our mission. There’s no bureaucracy here, we just get things done. The next big game can come from any one of us and YOU can be a key part of our journey.

• Be a part of one of several small empowered teams who inspire and challenge one another in the pursuit of our mission
• Autonomy to make your own impact with the support to help it happen
• Designated ‘Ape Space’ creative time where you are free to work on game concepts and ideas away from your day to day
• The freedom to further your skill set the way YOU want with a generous training budget
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• An award winning studio that in 2017 was crowned one of the best companies to work for in the UK by Gamesindustry
• Help run and create games which bring joy to millions of players all over the world

Responsibilities

• Taking responsibility for server development in an agile team comprising front-end engineering, devops, art, game design and QA engineering
• Working with Java/Scala and various opensource frameworks and AWS ecosystem to develop game features, middleware, common components and tools
• Taking part in all aspects of the sprint life-cycle, from feature design and planning through implementation, launch and live operations support
• Creating elegant, reusable and tested code
• Working alongside other members of the team to help express technical concepts in a clear and accessible way

Requirements

• Strong Java/Scala Programming Experience
• Excellent server engineering skills
• Experience and/or a passion for functional programming
• Experience working in a client-server environment
• Experience working in a service based architecture
• Experience working with NoSQL systems
• Experience working in a team building and supporting a product with a significant user base
• Excellent communication skills and attitude

Bonus points for

• Having worked on a successful (>1M MAU) free to play game
• Having built and launched a mobile game on iOS and Android
• Having designed and developed an AWS based architecture with more than 100 servers
• Having a reputation in the industry for excellence in creating / contributing to open source projects
• Having a working knowledge of React
• Having a working knowledge of Unity3D

About the Tech

Space Ape's server tech connects million of players around the world and is the backbone of game events and social features. To achieve this we heavily leverage AWS services and we build every component with scalability in mind.

Here is a simplified architecture of our games' backend.

Every game is load tested with a game simulation to test the scalability and measure the performances.

About Space Ape

Space Ape’s mission is to make the highest quality and most successful mobile games in the world. Founded in 2012 we’ve since launched four games: Samurai Siege, Rival Kingdoms, Transformers: Earth Wars and Fastlane: Road to Revenge. To date our games have been installed by over 60 million people across over 150 countries.

Our studio is currently 110 strong and built around the belief that small empowered teams make the best games. This philosophy enables us to innovate, move faster and have the creative ownership required to chase the next genre defining hit.

In 2017 Space Ape entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Supercell. We are still independent and masters of our own destiny, but now we’ve got Supercell’s support and belief behind us in order to make and distribute massive hit games.

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