Mid/Senior Java Software Developer

About Gameloft

Leader in the development and publishing of mobile games, Gameloft has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms, two of which are featured in the "Top 10 Games by All-Time Worldwide Downloads" from App Annie. Gameloft operates its own established franchises such as Asphalt, Order & Chaos, Modern Combat and Dungeon Hunter and also partners with major rights holders including Universal, Illumination Entertainment, Disney, Marvel, Hasbro, Fox Digital Entertainment, Mattel and Ferrari. Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries and employs 4,600 people worldwide. Every month, 114 million unique users can be reached by advertisers in Gameloft games with Gameloft Advertising Solutions, a leading B2B offering dedicated to brands and agencies. Gameloft is a Vivendi company.

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Job Description

We are currently looking for a passionate and experienced
Backend Software Engineer
with a strong focus on solving problems as well as finding the best solutions for our platform.

About Us

Once upon a time at Gameloft Studio, there was an island called Titan Platform. We are a team of ~15 people that work in mini-teams of 3-4. Each of these teams is specialized in a certain area with the final goal of ensuring the design, development and maintenance of a content distribution platform & many more interesting projects that we have ongoing.

About The Role

The first thing you need to know is that, the team you'll be working on cares about the work environment and growth opportunities as much as they do about the technical aspects. They guide themselves through the practices below

• Everyone has the opportunity to be involved in the whole full lifecycle of the project, from design & development to operations.
• You will know ahead of time what are the features required, they will be discussed in the team and you will be able to take full ownership of your features & projects.
• We don't limit ourselves to a set of technologies that we know. There is always something new to learn.
• Having an agile mindset helps us with keeping our activity well organized, transparent, with clear goals and well defined sprint scopes. We take pride in our work and we involve the entire team when taking decisions, not only the leaders.
• You will be able to work on all project facets in order to have the entire project understanding and come with a feasible solution when it is necessary.

Your daily adventures will include

• Design, implement and test new features using Java;
• Developing & maintaining core REST microservices;
• Work with devops tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD;
• Helping lead features/initiatives from idea to positive execution;
• Defining and implementing a set of rules & good practices that ensure the good health & growth of the platform;
• R&D, platform architecture & systems design.

The Titan team is cross-functional and this comes with various learning opportunities that allow you to try different types of activities (mobile development, web front-ends, big-data processing pipelines and administrative tools), thus sharpening your technical skills.

Here are some of technologies we use and we have expertise with

• Languages
  Java, Python, Groovy, JS, Typescript, PHP;
• Frameworks
  Spring, Play, Flutter, Apache Spark, Symfony, Angular, React, Nginx;
• Databases
  DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL (Aurora), ElasticSearch, Redis;
• AWS services
  Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Glacier, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, API gateway, Kinesis, Elastic Transcoder, Glue, EMR, Athena;
• Version control systems & devops tools
  Git, Jenkins, Gitlab, Terraform.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience with a JVM language (Java, Scala or Kotlin);

• Exposure to web development with focus on backend services;

• Decent understanding of Linux, software architecture and infrastructure concepts;

• Experience with NoSql databases;

• Ability to develop solution architecture designs and learn complex systems;

• Willing for research and sharing the knowledge with the team;

• Always eager to learn and keep a good ownership attitude;

• Excellent problem solving skills and a proactive approach;

• Always eager to learn new concepts, languages and frameworks which support our business products and not only.

Experience is great, but what we really look for is drive, intelligence, and integrity. So even if you don't tick every box, please consider applying if you feel you're the kind of person described above

Additional Information

Why Join the World of Gameloft?

Because you want to be part of an exceptional experience within a company that is constantly growing

Because you want to work with talented people who are industry pioneers

Because you want to be part of an international environment with daily contact with other countries & cultures

Because you want to work in an inclusive equal opportunity workplace

Or, just because you're looking for a great place to work

• Permanent contract, full-time job with excellent Social Benefits.
• 25 vacation days per year
• Private medical health insurance
• Flexible compensation with Ticket Restaurant Card
• Free language courses
• Birthday day off + option to work a shortened schedule on three days.
• Flexible work-from-home hybrid model
• Merit based salary progression system and a competitive initial salary package.
• Career-development opportunities.
• Excellent local working conditions (quality of offices, geographical location of office in the centre of Barcelona).
• ... and Thursday afterwork beers
• We can't wait to find our next great talent

We're looking for gamers from all walks of life to join our team We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where everyone feels welcome, respected, valued, and empowered to do their best work. To do so, we joined hands with organizations such as FemDevs and COGAM, who are helping us to create a safe workplace where gamers can come together (no matter what their background culture or identity is) and create amazing experiences for our players.

Whether you're a casual gamer or a hardcore e-sports competitor, and regardless of the platform you prefer (we're a cross-platform dev Studio now) we want you to feel like you belong to our team.

Please note that only selected candidates will be contacted and your CV will be saved in our files for a period of 6 months.

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