Software Engineer

THE POSITION Our roster has an opening with your name on it We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our CPE Platform vertical, working within Core Products and Experiences. In this role, you’ll contribute to a multidisciplinary team building reliable, engaging products for millions of players. You’ll bring some hands-on engineering experience, a practical approach to solving problems, and a willingness to learn from and support others. You’ll help deliver well-structured software, take part in technical discussions, and contribute to documentation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the team. We are a growth company so there are plenty of opportunities for you to learn and grow with us, plus we have remote-first working and a generous paid leave policy to enjoy your downtime. We’re committed to making sure everyone who works here can maintain a healthy work/life balance. THE GAME PLAN Everyone on our team has a part to play - You’ll work as part of our Session Management team, helping build and improve backend services that support reliable, scalable customer sessions - You’ll learn how our systems work and contribute to well-scoped features, fixes and improvements with support from more experienced engineers - You’ll write clear, maintainable backend code using Java or similar languages, following team standards and best practices - You’ll help build and improve APIs, services and database-backed functionality that can handle high volumes of traffic - You’ll test your changes carefully and look for simple ways to make our services more reliable, observable and easier to support - You’ll take part in code reviews, design discussions, planning sessions and team ceremonies, asking questions and sharing ideas - You’ll investigate bugs and support issues, working with the team to understand root causes and make practical improvements - You’ll learn about scaling systems, databases, caching and cloud infrastructure through hands-on work with the team - You’ll keep documentation up to date so others can understand how our services work and how to support them - You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, product partners and stakeholders to deliver changes that improve the reliability and performance of session management - You’ll bring curiosity, humility and a willingness to learn, while growing your engineering judgement and technical confidence over time What We’re Looking For THE STATS What we’re looking for in our next teammate - Some experience building backend software through work, internships, placements, bootcamps, university projects or personal projects - An understanding of Java or a similar object-oriented programming language, and an interest in developing backend services and APIs - Familiarity with databases and SQL, with an interest in learning more about data modelling, performance and scaling - Awareness of common data structures, algorithms and software design principles - An interest in distributed systems, reliability, monitoring and how high-traffic backend systems operate in production - Familiarity with cloud technologies, containers or CI/CD is helpful, but not required - An understanding of testing basics and a willingness to write tests as part of everyday development - Comfortable working in a team environment, asking questions, receiving feedback and learning from others - A practical approach to problem solving and a desire to leave code and documentation clearer than you found it - Enthusiasm for working on backend systems that support customer-facing products at scale What You Can Expect - Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons - A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rollin