Backend Software Engineer, Kwalee
Mobile game publisher
Job no longer available
Mobile game publisher
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fully embrace digital distribution through great digital marketing, to propel high-quality games to a massive global audience.
Role
Who you are
- A proven track record of writing high quality database and program code for servers with Python. We are considering different levels of experience (from several months to years)
- The ability to write quick scripts to accelerate manual tasks
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, Memcache,etc.) could be useful but it’s not mandatory
- Knowledge of Unix, Linux or equivalent development environments
- Some experience in game development would be a plus, although it’s not necessary
- An avid interest in either console, PC or mobile games
- We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together
What the job involves
- As a 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
- 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
- Contributing to the design and architecture of our servers using Python with Flask deployed on AWS EC2 Servers
- Implementing server 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 server-related issues affecting them
Our take
The mobile game industry is rapidly growing, with hundreds of thousands of games available to download. But, to achieve success, a game not only needs to come from a great idea, but to be published and marketed successfully. Kwalee, founded in 2011, is one of the world’s most successful mobile game publishers, creating and publishing innovative and hypercasual games.
Publishing with Kwalee offers game creators the opportunity to make their game successful faster and more easily. Ideas can be submitted online, with Kwalee handling initial marketing and collecting data on performance to fuel improvements, as well as providing monetisation support. In addition to taking on external projects, Kwalee encourages staff to pitch ideas for games, capitalising on the creativity across its teams and rewarding successful ideas.
Kwalee has launched a number of games, its most successful being Draw It which has over 100 million downloads – the success of which enabled the company to grow operations, now boasting numerous offices across the globe. In 2021, the company was named Best Large Studio at the TIGA Awards, as well as winning the world’s best mobile game publisher title at the 2022 Mobile Game Awards. Impressively, it has now surpassed 1 billion downloads across its titles, with no reason to expect anything but strong performance for its future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
39% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Generous team profit sharing scheme from day 1 of employment
- We contribute to your pension, offer private medical cover and life assurance
- Creative Wednesdays! (Design and make your own games every Wednesday)
- A dog friendly office - bring your favourite pooch! (There’s dog-free areas too)
- Hybrid model available depending on the department and the role
- Access to on site gym - no more skiving!
- 25 days of paid holidays plus bank holidays
- Relocation support available
- VISA Sponsorship available
- Great work-life balance with flexible working hours
- Quarterly team building days - work hard, play hard!
- Entertainment area with consoles, pool table, tennis table and darts!
- Monthly employee awards
- Free snacks, fruit and drinks
Company HQ
Radford Semele, UK
Leadership
David Darling
(CEO)Co-founder and former Creative Director and CEO of Codemasters.
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