JOB DESCRIPTION

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

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

Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

On site gym - take care of yourself

Relocation support - available

Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a Junior Software Engineer - Backend you will write code that will run on 100s of servers thousands of times a second helping our games run smoothly, you will have to work out how to deal with massive amounts of data efficiently, train machines to crunch data and generally play around with the latest and greatest in tech.

You love to write efficient code and tackle hard puzzles, you like working with a committed team.

 Your Team Mates

The Backend team operates from our UK and India office as well as remotely - they're a bunch of tech experts who love solving hard problems and are the backbone of everything we do. The team makes sure all our servers are working at their optimal best so our millions of players can keep enjoying themselves. 

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

Contributing to the design and architecture of our backend using Python with Flask deployed on AWS EC2 Servers.

Implementing backend features to robustly support millions of mobile game players.

You’ll be working with a worldwide multi cluster Couchbase and Elasticsearch database.

Interfacing with other teams on any backend-related issues affecting them.

Your Hard Skills

A good knowledge of writing python code in Object Oriented fashion with experience in some python REST API framework (FastAPI/ Flask/ Django/ any other similar framework) for a minimum of one year.

Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch/Couchbase/MongoDB, etc.) could be useful but it’s not mandatory.

The ability to write quick scripts to accelerate manual tasks.

Knowledge of Unix, Linux or equivalent development environments

An avid interest in either console, PC or mobile games would be a plus, although it’s not necessary.

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, 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.