Services Engineer

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