We’re FuturLab, the award-winning game studio behind PowerWash Simulator, the Velocity series, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, and many more awesome games.

As a Junior Engineer in the Server team, you will be working in a small agile team, delivering new features and services for our Live Service infrastructure. You’ll work closely with the game teams, helping to support the titles that FuturLab creates and maintains.

Your work will primarily involve writing backend services in .NET which that are deployed in the cloud, but you will also work with the team to monitor existing production services using services like Grafana. Additionally, you will get exposure to managing our cloud stack using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.

We work with 3rd party products and solutions to manage authentication, analytics, and help support game features like multiplayer. As such, you will also gain exposure to these areas of game development too.

The specific responsibilities of your role will include, but are not limited to:

Developing new features and fixing bugs in existing backend services.
Creating brand new services to support feature requirements from our game client teams.
Designing and implementing database schemas.
Monitoring existing services in production.
Adding tests to our existing suite of Unit, Integration and Load Tests.
Providing web development support to the studio
Creating and maintaining documentation for our service on our internal wiki.

Requirements

Required knowledge:

C# and .NET
OOP
SQL/NoSQL
RESTful API design

Desirable experience:

Azure/AWS
Docker
Terraform
Grafana
Game development

We like to see developers that are:

Proactive: With contributions to pull requests, updating documentation, and suggestions on how we can all improve as a team.
Inquisitive: Asking questions about the software we have written and the processes that we follow.
Flexible: We’re an agile team, due in part to the dynamic requirements of games development. Additionally, we may also need you to be flexible for the very few occasions when we might need to share on-call work inside the team.

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!)
27 days of paid annual leave, including 21 standard days, 3 days over the Christmas closure, 2 discretionary 'Duvet Days,' 1 day to celebrate your birthday, plus all 8 UK bank holidays and an extra day off for our very own FuturLab bank holiday!
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 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 Coffee and Speciality Teas!

FuturLab foster an inclusive and welcoming culture, check out the Life at FuturLab page (www.futurlab.co.uk/life-at-futurlab) 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: 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.