Services Engineer

3 Weeks ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Services Engineer at Lighthouse Games, you will be responsible for designing and implementing a range of services for the development team. You will collaborate with Online and Gameplay teams to deliver and deploy services, focusing on improving scalability and flexibility. Key responsibilities include contributing to the live service codebase, participating in code reviews, implementing live service features, gathering requirements from other disciplines, establishing online service features, supporting junior team members, and promoting quality within the team. You will also be expected to take an active part in the collaborative team spirit.
Must have:
  • Contribute to live service code base development, maintenance and deployment.
  • Participate in peer code reviews.
  • Implement live service features, considering performance and scalability.
  • Work alongside other disciplines to gather requirements.
  • Establish online service features such as matchmaking, friends and commerce.
  • Support and mentor less experienced team members.
  • Champion quality within Lighthouse Games and online service development.
Perks:
  • Competitive Base Salary
  • Discretionary Annual Bonus
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • 25 Days Holiday + Christmas Shutdown

Job Details

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

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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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