Server Engineer

🕒 July 1, 2025

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Hutch

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51 - 200 employees

Hutch was voted one of the Best Places to Work in the 2020 gamesindustry.biz awards! Since inception in 2011, we've entertained over 300 million mobile players across game titles including Rebel Racing, F1® Clash, Top Drives, and Hot Wheels: Race Off. We’re dedicated to growing the racing genre on mobile, and enabling communities of players worldwide to celebrate their passion for cars.

📋 Description

• Server Engineer | Development | London | Permanent •We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. •We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy. •Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way. •We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players. •We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission! •Server Engineer •Hutch are looking for a Server Engineer to join the team in our central London studio. This will be a role designing, prototyping and developing server-based multiplayer game systems for our successful mobile games. This is an exciting role for someone who enjoys taking a lot of ownership for their work, would enjoy working in a high-load environment and the technical challenges that it presents. Our Engineers work on a specific game team, closely with Artists, Designers and other programmers, allowing them to have a huge impact day-to-day and allowing them to have a lot of input into the development of the backend services for a successful game.

🎯 Requirements

•Previous and proven commercial experience as a server/network or backend developer, working in a high load environment •Strong technical design and code skills in suitable Web technologies and frameworks, including JavaScript/TypeScript and/or C#/.NET, Node.js, Azure/AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, SQL/NoSQL, Redis •Broad experience of server/network programming and principles, including database design, replication, load balancing, reliable/unreliable messaging, latency minimisation, security •A passion for the latest Web technology, an interest in games a definite advantage •Bonus Points •Games industry and/or Unity experience are desirable but not essential

🏖️ Benefits

• Life at Hutch •Hutch is now a 4-Day Work Week company* •Flexible working hours •Remote working 2 days per week •Excellent salary •Private health care •Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks) •Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching •Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch •Free snacks and drinks •Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more