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Server-Side Engineer

Description

We are a new studio, located 7-mins walk from Oxford Circus Station, that is set out to innovate the mobile gaming industry and we are on the lookout for exceptional talent.

As part of a new division within the Playtika group, one of the biggest mobile gaming companies in the world with 34M+ active users daily, over 3,700 employees with more than 19 offices spread out around the world, you’ll have plenty of chances to bounce off ideas with other great-minded people, use group resources and infrastructure whenever you need to, but most importantly – Make your mark!

In this instance, we’re looking for a top-notch Server-Side Engineer who is eager to maintain our state-of-the-art microservices ecosystem (Playtika services used for all our games, as well as others built in-studio by us) and take it to the next level on every new feature and release, keeping gaming experience to the forefront of priorities. We are a small cross-functional team, and the back-end side of the studio will be mainly managed by you, with the support of DevOps and IT teams, which provides the perfect opportunity for someone looking to take ownership and leave their mark in the server-side of a studio which is growing year on year

Responsibilities

● Develop Spring Boot microservices for our games.

● Develop simple React microfrontends (5-10% of development work).

● Work with client-side development teams to integrate our games into the platform.

● Write unit, integration, contract and end-to-end tests as part of the basic development lifecycle.

● Architecture and design of server-side for our games.

● Generate documentation for architecture and design of server-side and discuss it with client-side team.

● Support services on production (managing metrics, alerting thresholds) and documenting failures.

● Liaise with DevOps, IT and BI teams for infrastructure maintenances, error troubleshooting, and data integrations.

Requirements

● Spring Boot version 2+.

● REST APIs with Spring.

● Kafka (or some other MQ).

● Microservices architecture in general.

● Aerospike (or alternatively MongoDB, Couchbase, or other NoSQL experience).

● The Netflix / spring cloud stack specifically (nice to have).

● React (nice to have).

● Grafana (nice to have).

● ELK stack (nice to have).

● A hands-on attitude and willing to work with other teams from different locations.

● 3-5 years of experience as a microservices developer, ideally in the games industry.