Backend Java Team Lead

Description

About project

• Jagex is a leading British video game developer and publisher best known for Runescape and Old School Runescape, two of the world’s most community-centric and successful massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Jagex create deep, meaningful and ever-evolving immersive experiences & inherently understand how to connect, engage and excite people through play. Jagex is as an expert in the field of living games – those which grow and evolve over time.
• Headquartered in Cambridge, Jagex has enjoyed five years of successive growth, almost doubling its staff in the last two years and generating revenue of more than £100million a year.
• Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
• Jagex is looking for a talented developer to play a key role in growing its Publishing Platform team. The team's goal is to build a best-in-class ecosystem for living games, providing services including account management, payments systems, core game services, distribution, live operations, testing and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Take a part in development, enhance, support and QA of multi-layer applications
• Take responsibility for code quality, efficiency and maintainability
• Manage tasks in team scope, coordinate work with peers
• Follow and improve best practices within the team

Requirements

• Excellent Java skills (JDK8+)
• Strong communication skills
• Proven records of contribution to the design and architecture of complex scalable and highly reliable backend systems
• Excellent knowledge of relational and NoSQL database systems
• Excellent knowledge of HTTP fundamentals and design of RESTful APIs
• Experience working in a micro-service based infrastructure
• Good spoken and written English skills

Would be a plus:

• Be familiar with Kubernetes
• Be familiar with OAuth2
• Be familiar with Docker

Benefits

• Working with an international team of world class professionals on exciting and challenging projects
• Relocation program for new hires
• Learning & Development opportunities – mentoring, lectures, participation at industry conferences and events
• Medical Insurance package
• Sensibly flexible working hours
• Breakfasts, snacks and fruits available during the day, tea and coffee machines
• Friendly team and a family-like environment
• Casual workplace environment in Krakow downtown including bicycle parking, game and chill-out zones
• Additional benefits – care bonus to cover health, educational and safety needs, four paid days without sick list during a year, paid fitness club membership, corporate parties and team buildings and many more others