Description

At Lockwood, our vision is to bring people together through Avakin Life so they can play, share and socialise! Listed as one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies by the FT for 2020 as well as winning numerous TIGA and other awards several years in a row, our journey’s only just begun. With great benefits including an employee share scheme and profit related quarterly bonus, we’re a great destination for those who want to work on cutting edge social experiences in an environment that fosters communication and creativity. We’re always looking for good people – so if you’re a great person and an amazing developer we’d love to hear from you.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.


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

    • 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).
Salary

Competitive Salary

Job Type

Development