Technology Backend Developer

Permanent - Full-time

Who is Armory Tech

When you are a part of the Armory Technology department, you will join a family of talented individuals that strive to offer the best products and services to the game development teams across the Square Enix Mobile world. We create products that support and empower the game teams throughout the entire life cycle of the game creation process so they can focus on bringing great experiences to the players. Our internal values focus on Growth and Innovation for all the individuals while keeping a transparent communication and feedback culture. We want to build an environment where every member of our team thinks like a business owner and is an entrepreneur helping the entire group in creating amazing technology.

What is your opportunity

As a backend developer, you play a crucial role in developing Armory Central Tech products for our game development teams. You and your team will craft software that will deliver engaging and delightful experiences to our clients. You must have a strong understanding of the product lifecycle, from ideation and design to implementation and support. You will closely collaborate with developers, product owners, the Backend Architect, and other stakeholders to ensure that the delivered product meets the needs of the stakeholders.

What will you do

• Work collaboratively with our product and development teams to develop engaging and delightful software to be used by game development teams;
• Participate as a member of the Scrum development team and own team tasks when needed;
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to find the best solutions using a wide variety of technologies, systems, and services;
• Participate in reviewing and optimizing processes and codebases;
• Find and implement solutions having in mind requirements such as: support and long-term maintenance, extensibility and scalability, industry standards and best practices, code quality and automated testing, scalability and performance testing, cross platform usability (consoles, mobile devices, PC);
• Take decisions and own them.

Experience & Qualifications

• Passion for mobile games and a vision of the mobile game industry and F2P;
• 4+ years working as a Backend developer;
• Experience as a developer in an Agile environment, working with product owners, stakeholders, and other developers;
• Be able to create and integrate with web services, REST APIs, relational and NoSQL databases in a reliable, highly available and scalable online environment;
• Experience developing software using the Java language stack of technology;
• A passion for a collaborative approach to problem solving and delivering workable solutions within quick turnaround times;
• Record of accomplishment of delivering quality experiences that meet or exceed customer expectations;
• Excellent organization skills, being meticulous, self-managing, and pragmatic;
• A strong work ethic and ability to proactively take ownership in an innovative and fast-paced environment;
• Maturity and a professional attitude, comfortable with continuous improvement;
• Strong knowledge in: Java, continuous integration and continuous deployment strategies, quality concepts (such as unit testing, regression testing, and TDD), modern development practices (with OpenAPI, interfaces, libraries, design patterns, OOP, REST API standards and implementations), microservice based architectures, backend performance, efficiency, and security issues.

Interpersonal Qualities

• Experience working with various development tools such as Perforce, GIT, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Unity, and IntelliJ;
• Experience working with various Java development frameworks;
• Experience working with various DevOps tools;
• Experience working with various application monitoring tools;
• Experience working with JIRA or another backlog management too;
• Experience working with Linux environment and tools;
• Experience working with distributed systems and network protocols.

Motivation & Interests

• Passion for video games is a must!