Services Engineer

1 Month ago • 4-8 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Services Engineer at Lighthouse Games, you'll design and implement services for the development team, collaborating with Online and Gameplay teams. Responsibilities include developing, maintaining, and deploying live service code, participating in code reviews, implementing features while considering performance and scalability, and gathering requirements from various disciplines. You'll establish online service features (matchmaking, friends, commerce), mentor junior engineers, champion quality, and contribute to a collaborative team environment. The role requires experience with designing and implementing scalable online services, planning large projects, writing clean and robust code with automated testing, and mitigating project risks.
Must have:
  • Experience with scalable online services
  • Large project planning & development
  • Clean & robust code with automated testing
  • Risk awareness & mitigation
  • Mentoring junior/mid-level engineers
Perks:
  • Competitive Base Salary
  • Discretionary Annual Bonus
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • 25 Days Holiday + Christmas Shutdown

Job Details

Description

Lighthouse Games is a new AAA studio in Leamington Spa. We are defined by our pedigree of talent, and serious ambition to build a new best-in-class game. When you join us at Lighthouse, you will be able to create the best work of your career, in an environment that feels truly collaborative. You will learn from the best, and work along side the future greats of the gaming industry.

As a Services Engineer you will be responsible for designing and implementing a range of services for use by the whole development team. You will work with the Online and Gameplay teams to deliver and deploy services that they can seamlessly integrate features into, looking for ways to improve the scalability and flexibility of those systems at every opportunity. As a Senior team member, you will share your knowledge with those with less experience to ensure high quality code is created throughout the team.

Key Duties

  • Contribute towards development, maintenance and deployment of live service code base
  • Participate in peer code reviews
  • Implement live service features considering performance & scalability.
  • Work alongside other disciplines (design, art, production) to gather requirements for live service features
  • Establish online service features such as matchmaking, friends, and commerce
  • Support less experienced team members, mentoring them, and raising the standards of the whole Engineering team
  • Champion quality within Lighthouse Games and our online services development
  • Actively take part in our collaborative and creative team spirit

Requirements

  • Experience working closely with the design and technical teams to implement robust and scalable online services
  • Demonstrable experience of planning and development of large bodies of work, with minimal supervision
  • Examples of clean and robust code, following all standards and guidelines, including the use of automated testing processes
  • Experience in risk awareness: Be aware of risks in your work and the wider project, and actively mitigate them
  • Experience with mentoring engineers at both junior and midlevel.

Benefits

  • Competitive Base Salary
  • Discretionary Annual Bonus
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • 25 Days Holiday + Christmas Shutdown

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About The Company

Lighthouse is a game development company, and our ambition is to create a studio that embodies what it means to be at the bleeding edge of video game development – a studio that enables developers to create the best work of their career, in an environment that feels truly collaborative.


We are a home for ambitious developers who value collaboration and possess a determination to deliver quality. We want talent to flourish in our state-of-the-art studio and welcome experienced developers with a passion for mentoring. Our studio is a great environment for new talent to grow and develop their careers because they will be part of an outstanding studio with a long, bright future, where they can learn from the best. 


As a growing AAA development studio, we are actively searching for talent and by joining Lighthouse you will work with some of the leading lights in AAA game development, who will support you in creating the best work of your career in an environment which fosters openness and respect.

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