Senior Software Engineer - Game Framework
Lockwood Publishing, United Kingdom

At Lockwood, our vision is to bring people together through Avakin Life so they can play, share and socialise! Listed as one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies by the FT for 2020 as well as winning numerous TIGA and other awards several years in a row, our journey’s only just begun. With great benefits including an employee share scheme, we’re a great destination for those who want to work on cutting edge social experiences in an environment that fosters communication and creativity. We’re always looking for good people so if you’re a great person and an amazing developer we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of a team to create, improve and maintain components of our backend services;
• Understanding requirements and implementing changes appropriately and, where necessary, writing integration/unit tests and documentation and competently using version control and issue tracking software;
• Participating in design discussions and offering consideration as to how best to expand and implement backend services;
• Monitoring of service components under load and analysis of operation issues;
• Working with the wider backend, client, devops and QA teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ cumulative programming experience;
• Excellent practical skills programming with languages such as Go and/or C++;
• Good practical skills in creating high-performance, multi-threaded and asynchronous applications;
• Experience working within a Linux environment;
• Understanding of database and networking concepts;

Beneficial: Knowledge of CI/DevOps systems (Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes etc), Experience working with backend/APIs, Experience with scalable system design, Experience with frontend/JavaScript.

Benefits

• Profit share bonus scheme, Share Scheme
• Life Insurance, Healthcare Cash Plan, Income Protection
• Flexible working hours
• Quarterly staff socials
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Flexible 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Bike to Work scheme amp; other benefits

Lockwood Publishing provides a welcome and safe working space for all employees globally. We do not discriminate on any grounds or characteristics protected by applicable employment law - including race, religion, faith, sex, relationship status, sexual orientation, age, marital status, medical condition or disability. We will consider all qualified job- seekers and can provide appropriate accommodation to applicants with disabilities should they need it. If you believe you may require accommodation during the interview process, please do not hesitate to ask.

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