Backend Developer (UK only - Remote/Hybrid/Brighton)
Job Summary
Job Description
- Microservices Design
- Cloud Environment
- RESTful Services
- Docker/Containers
- Kubernetes
- PlayFab
- GameSparks
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Competitive Salary
- Remote Work
Job Details
Description
We’re FuturLab, the award-winning game studio behind PowerWash Simulator, the Velocity series, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, and many more awesome games.
We’re looking for a Backend Developer with 2-3 years experience in designing and implementing microservices, hosted in a cloud environment such as AWS or Azure.
You’ll be working in a small agile team, along with a Frontend Developer and DevOps Engineer to create new features to support titles running on PC, VR and consoles. Get involved in the award-winning global hit PowerWash Simulator and other exciting new projects!
Role and Responsibilities:
- Working with the team lead to design, scope, and implement features in an agile, iterative release approach
- Collaborating closely with Frontend Developer to define API contracts, request/response models, etc.
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to manage deployments through development environments, and to production
- Monitoring and troubleshooting environments as and when issues arise
- Proactively seeking improvements to existing systems
- Sharing knowledge with team members, contributing to code reviews, and keeping documentation up to date and relevant
Requirements
- Designing and implementing RESTful services at scale, written in Java, C#, Node.js, Go, etc.
- Experience working with Docker/Containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Unit and Load Testing for web applications (JMeter, k6, gatling.io)
- Working with SQL and NoSQL database types, and caching (i.e. Redis)
- Production level experience working with Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Building CI/CD pipelines and maintaining runners (GitLab, Jenkins, TeamCity)
- Designing and scaling event-driven systems
- Use of monitoring and alerting tools (Datadog, Prometheus, etc.)
Desirable:
- Experience with 3rd Party providers such as PlayFab, GameSparks, Heroic Labs, or Epic Online Services
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools
- Experience working with Windows based development environments
Benefits
- Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
- Performance related bonus.
- Bi-annual salary reviews based on your performance.
- Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm (No weekends, No overtime, No Crunch!)
- Opportunity to work from home (UK only), out of our Brighton office, or hybrid.
- 21 days annual leave + 9 Bank Holidays, which includes our very own FuturLab Bank Holiday!
- 2 Duvet Days. (No questions asked)
- Extra day off for your birthday.
- Studio closure over the Christmas period.
- 5 paid training and 2 paid volunteer days per year to work on your personal development.
- Opportunities to attend and speak at gaming events/conferences.
- Free MS Game Pass or PS+ subscription
- Free game codes, game swag and merchandise.
- Bike2work scheme.
- Enhanced Maternity - 9 months full pay (statutory benefit topped up by FL)
- Paternity leave - 8 weeks full pay
- Enhanced Sick Pay.
- Enhanced Pension.
- Private Healthcare, includes dental and optical cover.
- Remote therapy service through Spill -8 x 50-minute virtual sessions over 6 months whenever you need them. Unlimited ‘ask a therapist’ text questions.
- Eye tests & standard glasses for display work.
- Amazing offices with a great culture. E.g. Regular social activities, Free fresh fruit, Free iced treats in the Summer and Free locally roasted, Small Batch Coffee and Speciality Teas!
FuturLab foster an inclusive and welcoming culture, check out the Life at FuturLab page ( for reasons why you’d love working here!
If you have the skills, experience and passion for the role then please get in touch as we’d love to hear from you!
To apply, click here: Junior Build Engineer - (UK only/Remote/Hybrid - Brighton) - FuturLab Ltd (workable.com) and attach your latest CV and cover letter/portfolio link.
Equal Opportunities
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process as required, please add any adjustment requests to your application.
Candidates without a valid UK work Visa cannot be considered.
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About The Company
We’re FuturLab, the award-winning game studio behind PowerWash Simulator, the Velocity series, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, and many more awesome games.
Our zero-crunch policy and commitment to staff well-being is testament to our belief that happy, healthy teams make great games – backed up by our award-winning catalogue.
FuturLab was originally founded in 2003, but things really took off for us in 2007 when we decided to take a risk: we rocked up to Sony HQ and delivered the pitch that would put us on the map as game developers.
Back then, we didn’t have the commercial video game experience that we do now, but what we did have was unbridled enthusiasm, distinctive ideas, and fearless audacity. To this day, we carry these essential ingredients through to every project we work on.
Although our head office in Brighton remains open, FuturLab is a remote first studio, allowing us to work with talent across the UK and beyond to deliver the best games possible, whilst empowering our team to work comfortably and flexibly in their own spaces.
Our studio is a place where everyone belongs, a space for us to cultivate great ideas and flourish together, with our differences as our strength. As a Ukie #RaiseTheGame pledge partner, we are committed to championing diversity and inclusion across all areas as we continue to expand.
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