About Run An Empire
Run An Empire is a location based mobile game that encourages people to get active. Players capture territory in the real world by moving through it - whether cycling, running or walking. They are challenged to build the greatest empire in their neighbourhood and lead their people from the dawn of time into the space age. The current iteration has been live in soft launch since October 2019 and is showing positive trends in early retention and conversion. 

Background on the Role
We’re hiring for someone excited about architecting a game server for growth. You will be working on all aspects of our backend with a focus on delivering new features. The game client is written in Unity on top of an AWS Lambda built in Node.js.  Ideally you are experienced with AWS, Node.js and familiar with Unity development.

Core Activities 

• Working with the product and game design team to build new features.
• Maintaining and developing our serverless backend system.
• Implementing and maintaining partner services such as ad networks, analytics and fitness app integrations. 
• Writing client code in C# to integrate with the backend.
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling the application to support load changes.
• Ensuring a high level of code quality.

 Desired Skills

• AWS (RDS, Lambda, API Gateway) and the Serverless framework.
• An understanding of mobile development, ideally using Unity3D.
• Experienced with Node.js.
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Some knowledge of  MySql or other flavours of SQL.
• Experience of having worked in an SCRUM team or agile environment 

Related Skills 

• Experience with games and mobile development 
• Extremely organised with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ahead of industry best practices on a product and development level. (Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends)
• Interest in free-to-play games
• Happy working in a collaborative environment
• Excited to work in a small, agile team
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.

Benefits 

• A fun & social working environment in central London
• Package includes competitive salary, share options and pension
• Flexible working hours
• Weekly working from home days
• A supportive environment to grow your skills including budget for personal development 
• The chance to help shape a business from a very early stage, and an opportunity to develop and learn new skills across various technologies and disciplines
• Studio based in Somerset House at the heart of an artistic and creative hub called Makerversity (laser cutters! 3D Printers! Games nights!)
• Laptop provided
• 33 days holiday and no expectation to work outside of regular hours
• Your birthday off!
• Flexible, tailored career progression within the games industry

Who should apply?
We're open to applications from anyone interested in backend archictecture, whether you're just starting out or an industry veteran of 10 years. Many of our current team graduated through our internship programme. Please no recruiters at this time. 

About Run An Empire
Run An Empire is a location based mobile game that encourages people to get active. Players capture territory in the real world by moving through it - whether cycling, running or walking. They are challenged to build the greatest empire in their neighbourhood and lead their people from the dawn of time into the space age. The current iteration has been live in soft launch since October 2019 and is showing positive trends in early retention and conversion. 

Background on the Role
We’re hiring for someone excited about architecting a game server for growth. You will be working on all aspects of our backend with a focus on delivering new features. The game client is written in Unity on top of an AWS Lambda built in Node.js.  Ideally you are experienced with AWS, Node.js and familiar with Unity development.

Core Activities 

• Working with the product and game design team to build new features.
• Maintaining and developing our serverless backend system.
• Implementing and maintaining partner services such as ad networks, analytics and fitness app integrations. 
• Writing client code in C# to integrate with the backend.
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling the application to support load changes.
• Ensuring a high level of code quality.

 Desired Skills

• AWS (RDS, Lambda, API Gateway) and the Serverless framework.
• An understanding of mobile development, ideally using Unity3D.
• Experienced with Node.js.
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Some knowledge of  MySql or other flavours of SQL.
• Experience of having worked in an SCRUM team or agile environment 

Related Skills 

• Experience with games and mobile development 
• Extremely organised with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ahead of industry best practices on a product and development level. (Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends)
• Interest in free-to-play games
• Happy working in a collaborative environment
• Excited to work in a small, agile team
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Excellent project and time management skills.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.

Benefits 

• A fun & social working environment in central London
• Package includes competitive salary, share options and pension
• Flexible working hours
• Weekly working from home days
• A supportive environment to grow your skills including budget for personal development 
• The chance to help shape a business from a very early stage, and an opportunity to develop and learn new skills across various technologies and disciplines
• Studio based in Somerset House at the heart of an artistic and creative hub called Makerversity (laser cutters! 3D Printers! Games nights!)
• Laptop provided
• 33 days holiday and no expectation to work outside of regular hours
• Your birthday off!
• Flexible, tailored career progression within the games industry

Who should apply?
We're open to applications from anyone interested in backend archictecture, whether you're just starting out or an industry veteran of 10 years. Many of our current team graduated through our internship programme. Please no recruiters at this time. 

Role – Windows Server Engineer

Day Rate - £300-350pd

Contract Length – 3 Months

Location - Watford

A Global Leader in a multi-disciplinary Building engineering company are looking for a Server Engineer on a contractual basis. An additional Windows Server engineer is required to supplement the team within IT that are responsible for the; maintenance, support and management of data centre servers and storage infrastructure. The role will help deliver a programme of changes (Upgrade) and to deliver operational support, meeting or exceeding agreed service levels. The server infrastructure consists of physical & virtual servers and central data storage.

The Role

The programme of changes includes, but is not limited to:

• Migration from Microsoft Windows 2008 servers, to newer versions of Windows Server 2016.
• Migration from Microsoft SQL 2008 servers, to newer versions of MS SQL.
• Migration of data from tier 1 storage, to a new tier 2 storage platform.
• Migration of a ‘private’ cloud, to on-premise data centres.
• Remediation of issues raised during Cyber-Essentials PLUS certification related to servers.

This highly technical role also requires excellent customer focus and strong customer service skills in addition to good knowledge and understanding of Cyber Essentials Plus and ITIL processes.

Essential

• Hands-on experience of supporting, monitoring, managing & securing Microsoft Windows Servers (2008, 2012 & 2016) and VMware (v5.5+) in corporate environments
• Experience of administrating Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP and Group Policy in corporate environments.
• Experience of monitoring infrastructure health, performance, utilisation and capacity to help identify and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Experience of managing, monitoring and supporting Storage Area Networks (SAN).

Desirable

• Experience of using and writing PowerShell script.
• Knowledge of security best practices aligned to a recognized cyber-security standard such as; Cyber-Essentials PLUS.
• Experience of configuring Microsoft SQL and MySql database management systems.

Role – Windows Server Engineer

Day Rate - £300-350pd

Contract Length – 3 Months

Location - Watford

A Global Leader in a multi-disciplinary Building engineering company are looking for a Server Engineer on a contractual basis. An additional Windows Server engineer is required to supplement the team within IT that are responsible for the; maintenance, support and management of data centre servers and storage infrastructure. The role will help deliver a programme of changes (Upgrade) and to deliver operational support, meeting or exceeding agreed service levels. The server infrastructure consists of physical & virtual servers and central data storage.

The Role

The programme of changes includes, but is not limited to:

• Migration from Microsoft Windows 2008 servers, to newer versions of Windows Server 2016.
• Migration from Microsoft SQL 2008 servers, to newer versions of MS SQL.
• Migration of data from tier 1 storage, to a new tier 2 storage platform.
• Migration of a ‘private’ cloud, to on-premise data centres.
• Remediation of issues raised during Cyber-Essentials PLUS certification related to servers.

This highly technical role also requires excellent customer focus and strong customer service skills in addition to good knowledge and understanding of Cyber Essentials Plus and ITIL processes.

Essential

• Hands-on experience of supporting, monitoring, managing & securing Microsoft Windows Servers (2008, 2012 & 2016) and VMware (v5.5+) in corporate environments
• Experience of administrating Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP and Group Policy in corporate environments.
• Experience of monitoring infrastructure health, performance, utilisation and capacity to help identify and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Experience of managing, monitoring and supporting Storage Area Networks (SAN).

Desirable

• Experience of using and writing PowerShell script.
• Knowledge of security best practices aligned to a recognized cyber-security standard such as; Cyber-Essentials PLUS.
• Experience of configuring Microsoft SQL and MySql database management systems.

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to a variety of industries?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• Want increased work/life flexibility?

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript.  This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.   

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.  

Essential Skills -  

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySql, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for –

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to a variety of industries?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• Want increased work/life flexibility?

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript.  This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.   

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.  

Essential Skills -  

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySql, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for –

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

The Role: Automation Test Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes

Salary: £50,000 DOE

Important: You do have to go through security clearance.

Automation Test Engineer needed for a market leader that provides specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. They support 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

What you will be doing:

As part of the role you will develop and maintain the automated test framework of my client’s RESTful platform and associated web interfaces and systems. You will apply, design and develop automated testing strategies as well as analyze and verify the best automated and manual test approaches. You will also execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing and be involved in product design to guarantee adherence of test coverage for meeting end user requirements.

Ideally, your skills will include:

• Excellent knowledge and experience in testing Java based applications and web services
• Excellence in the construction and maintenance of automated test frameworks
• Good understanding of automated UI testing tools and techniques e.g. Selenium
• Practical knowledge of TDD & BDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance) with Jenkins and Git
• Good understanding of black and while box testing
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySql, MS SQL, postgreSQL)

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience in testing RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications
• Experience in performance testing approaches e.g. JMeter
• Experience in security and penetration testing
• Experience in UI testing with Selenium
• Experience in BDD test automation using Gherkin & Cucumber
• Experience in testing service based, event driven and event sourced architectures

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Remote working
• Flexible working time
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidized private health choice
• 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays. Option to flex this by five days.

The Role: Automation Test Engineer

Location: Milton Keynes

Salary: £50,000 DOE

Important: You do have to go through security clearance.

Automation Test Engineer needed for a market leader that provides specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. They support 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

What you will be doing:

As part of the role you will develop and maintain the automated test framework of my client’s RESTful platform and associated web interfaces and systems. You will apply, design and develop automated testing strategies as well as analyze and verify the best automated and manual test approaches. You will also execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing and be involved in product design to guarantee adherence of test coverage for meeting end user requirements.

Ideally, your skills will include:

• Excellent knowledge and experience in testing Java based applications and web services
• Excellence in the construction and maintenance of automated test frameworks
• Good understanding of automated UI testing tools and techniques e.g. Selenium
• Practical knowledge of TDD & BDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance) with Jenkins and Git
• Good understanding of black and while box testing
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySql, MS SQL, postgreSQL)

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience in testing RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications
• Experience in performance testing approaches e.g. JMeter
• Experience in security and penetration testing
• Experience in UI testing with Selenium
• Experience in BDD test automation using Gherkin & Cucumber
• Experience in testing service based, event driven and event sourced architectures

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Remote working
• Flexible working time
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidized private health choice
• 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays. Option to flex this by five days.