Senior Software Engineer

🕒 July 16

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Lockwood Publishing Ltd

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $25M Series A on 2020-11

Gaming • B2C • Social Impact

Lockwood Publishing Ltd. is the award-winning creator of Avakin Life, a 3D social universe enjoyed by over 200 million registered users. Based in Nottingham, Lockwood focuses on building immersive environments where players can express themselves and connect with a vibrant community. With a strong emphasis on creativity and user-generated content, Lockwood strives to offer authentic experiences in the digital realm.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with teams across Lockwood to identify necessary functionality and efficiency improvements and to determine the correct solution. • Work collaboratively within the cross-functional team to deliver maximum value in an agile environment. • Take on new technical skillsets as the role requires. • Manage risk through a dev-ops culture and thorough testing, maintaining high quality. • Analyse the system for issues and resolve as priority dictates. • Continuously improve the development and planning process. • Understand what is valuable to the company, and how work relates to that. • Take ownership of the system produced. • Contribute to a strong team sense of identity and spirit. • Foster a learning culture within the team. • Work within best practices for secure, compliant, and reliable systems.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience in software engineering • Professional understanding of agile concepts and processes • Good knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) • Solid grasp of dev-ops concepts and processes • Effective time management and estimation skills • Excellent communication skills • Self-motivated in work and willing to learn new skills. • Ability to adapt to change with resilience. • Understanding of back-end development best practices • Strong expertise in backend development primarily in Golang, but also with languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, or C# • Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and distributed computing • Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization tools (Docker). • Advanced knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases. • Strong background in designing scalable, high-performance systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Private Healthcare Plan • Pension Plan • Life Assurance • Work From Home • Training & Development • Employee Assistance Programme