Full Stack Web Developer

About us

Distinctive Developments is a well-established mobile games developer and publisher based in Sheffield City Centre.

We bring fresh and creative sports games to smartphones, tablets and beyond. Our mission is to create sports games that are not only great games but also as inclusive as possible, regardless of gaming ability, location, language, gender or ethnicity.

Our self-published titles are enjoyed by millions on people around the world – with games such as Rugby Nations and Hockey All Stars.

We are a small friendly group of people that are serious about entertaining sports fans with our games.

Job Description

As a member of the core development team you will be developing our online frontend and backend systems, that help us make our games more entertaining and successful. These services comprise of our online game-services, online game-modes, metrics reporting system and our game/live-ops configuration frontend. You will work closely with other developers in both the tools & technology department and the game production department to constantly maintain, improve and add new features.

Role & Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our in-house tools frontend systems, written in PHP.
• Develop and maintain our in-house backend systems, written in Java.
• Work with JSON data format for communication between games, backend and frontend.
• Produce highly efficient, reliable and maintainable code that serves millions of players.
• Work closely with management, designers and other developers to deliver game-changing features.
• Assist with server administration and deployments.

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related subject.
• Excellent PHP experience and skills essential.
• Excellent Java (J2EE) experience and skills essential.
• Understanding of cloud services implementation essential.
• Great knowledge of SQL & NoSQL Database Design and Implementation.
• Laravel experience an advantage.
• HTML/CSS/Javascript/Bootstrap knowledge essential.
• Maven Dependency Manager an advantage.
• Experience of AWS (DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Elasticache etc).
• Knowledge of online security and session management best practices.
• Good communication and teamworking skills.
• An interest in sports and gaming.

Benefits

• Pension scheme
• Flexible working hours
• City Centre location
• Casual dress
• Yearly profit based bonus

Location

Initially working in our office in Sheffield City Centre in order to get up to speed with our systems and processes. But, then the option to work from home two or three days per week if desirable.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to £50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Yearly bonus

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sheffield

Reference ID: FSWD24