Studio: Creative Assembly
Job Opening: Senior to Principal Backend Programmer
Location: Horsham, West Sussex, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work to deliver an exciting unannounced Total War with brand new IP
- Develop the architecture and implementation for the gameplay component of our online services for Total War
- Be proactive and provide implementation solutions for design-led requirements to the relevant members of the team
- Work with our in-house online services team to align with our wider stack of online services
- Help to grow the backend programming skillset within the wider Total War franchise team.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Strong programming and system design skills
- Experience of working on server-side, API-driven projects with online databases
- Previous experience with a cloud service (such as Amazon’s AWS) or virtualized environment
- Ability to clearly communicate using a variety of methods to enable effective collaboration
- Experience of working in both Windows and Linux environments
- Proactive and enthusiastic approach to work
- Methodical approach to software development
- High level of interest in learning in general, but particularly in learning new technologies and programming languages for software development
- Knowledge of and experience with playfab.
Optional Extras
- Mentoring experience
- Python development experience
- Experience of working with systems at scale
- Experience working with open authentication standards, Big Data
- Development experience and passion for online video games
- Avid Gamer and fan of Total War.
