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Lockwood Publishing
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Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Senior Software Engineer - Game Framework
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Job Description
Lockwood is evolving a living virtual world with over a million daily active users and we are looking for experienced and strongly motivated individuals to help us build and maintain the technology behind this. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Games Framework team. The team builds and maintains the server architecture for allowing server side game content to be built and hosted, as well as working closely with the client team to get necessary support integrated into the mobile client. Our Game Framework team comprises of experienced, driven and innovative members who are open to new ideas and who have a broad range of technical backgrounds from finance software to AAA console games. The ideal candidate would have several years programming experience on shipped products or production backend systems. A demonstrable ability to learn new systems and languages is a must and prior experience in multiple programming languages is a strong advantage. Responsibilities * Maintaining and building backend services relating to hosting and running user facing game content * Define, design and build new features to enable new game content * Support other developers in creating content * Primarily coding in Go and Lua * Sometimes coding in TypeScript/JavaScript (node.js), C#, C/C++, Python * Support our dev ops team in keeping our services running Requirements Essential * Expert knowledge of at least 1 relevant programming language and good experience in at least 2 more * Experience in shipping games, products or live systems Desirable * Experience with using game engines (e.g. Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Godot etc) * Experience with networking of software (network synchronisation, especially of real time systems / games) 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.