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Lockwood Publishing
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Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Senior Backend Engineer
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We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who has experience with Go. You will be working as part of our dedicated Tools team, developing tools that have a huge impact on our award-winning game, Avakin Life. The challenges you will be working on will improve productivity and operations and help to manage workflows and datasets. You will be working with cutting edge technologies to continue the advancement of our game and ensure that we are providing our users with the very best experiences. Here at Lockwood, ensuring our community have amazing experience whilst playing Avakin Life is at the heart of everything we do and the work you will be doing is at the core of ensuring our users have extraordinary moments. You will be part of a world class wider software development team, who are working on challenging and innovative projects. Working at Lockwood you will be working within a professional and dynamic games development environment, that enabled Lockwood to win the Best Innovation Award at the Tiga awards in 2019. Our game, Avakin Life, is played by over a million users right across the world every single day and is multi-award winning. Responsibilities * Writing testable and maintainable code * Work independently as well as within a team * Develop, deploy and maintain systems * Work across the company to evaluate requirements and practicality of requests * Respond to user feedback to improve tools Requirements * Go * SQL and/or NoSQL Databases * Knowledge of source control, design patterns, testing and debugging * Ability and desire to learn and master new and unfamiliar technologies and code * Focus on producing clean, high-quality code Beneficial: * Node.js / Python * Docker or other containerisation tools * Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS 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 & other benefits Lockwood Publishing is one of the leading independent UK mobile games companies. Our most successful product to date is a 3D virtual world on mobile called Avakin Life. We want to hear from talented and passionate developers who can help us implement our incredibly exciting and ambitious road-map. As part of the team at Lockwood, you will enjoy a creative, challenging and collaborative environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your design expertise. Our working environment is extremely open, and all team members have complete access to any metrics they wish. We hold regular company-wide briefings to ensure team members and departments are aware of the direct impact their efforts have on the progress of the project. Best of all, because we believe team members deserve more than a pat on the back for their effort, we offer a bonus scheme that pays out 50% of any increase in record quarterly profits directly to the team.