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: IoT Channel & Alliances Manager – EMEA

Location: Surrey (with EMEA travel)

Package: Up to £120,000 OTE

My Client, a rapidly expanding leader in communications services for IoT & M2M, is currently looking to hire an energetic and passionate individual to identify, recruit and develop an ecosystem of partner and alliance relationships across EMEA. This strategically integral role will engage and drive channel activities through System Integrators and Partners to increase revenues and broaden the reach of the organisation.  

Responsibilities

• Identifying and recruiting select partners
• Managing Key Alliance relationships on a day to day basis
• Partner business planning including certification, target setting and business development activities and monitoring progress against plan with QBR’s
• Hit and exceed targets with Channel partner organisations
• Maintaining regular contact and managing Channel Partner relationships
• Attending joint customer appointments with Alliance and Channels partners
• Helping prospective customers solve their business problems through excellent consultation, directly and with named channel partners
• Hosting events, running webinars, representing the company at trade shows and being creative to attract prospects
• Proposal writing and follow through with negotiated pricing structures
• Attending in-house & delivering external sales training events
• Issuing forecast reports detailing your business pipeline and expected successes in any given period

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience using a consultative sales process
• Demonstrable experience of managing sales teams
• Demonstrable results and a wide network within the IOT / Cloud / M2M industry
• Strong objection handling, negotiation and closing skills
• Excellent written, face to face and phone communication skills
• Natural rapport and relationship builder
• A team player who leads by example
• Ability to lead, coach and inspire
• Commercially confident with the ability to speak with C-Suite contacts on complex topics
• Degree educated
• Experience, knowledge and relationships within Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure / Global SI’s will be highly advantageous

Role: IoT Channel & Alliances Manager – EMEA

Location: Surrey (with EMEA travel)

Package: Up to £120,000 OTE

My Client, a rapidly expanding leader in communications services for IoT & M2M, is currently looking to hire an energetic and passionate individual to identify, recruit and develop an ecosystem of partner and alliance relationships across EMEA. This strategically integral role will engage and drive channel activities through System Integrators and Partners to increase revenues and broaden the reach of the organisation.  

Responsibilities

• Identifying and recruiting select partners
• Managing Key Alliance relationships on a day to day basis
• Partner business planning including certification, target setting and business development activities and monitoring progress against plan with QBR’s
• Hit and exceed targets with Channel partner organisations
• Maintaining regular contact and managing Channel Partner relationships
• Attending joint customer appointments with Alliance and Channels partners
• Helping prospective customers solve their business problems through excellent consultation, directly and with named channel partners
• Hosting events, running webinars, representing the company at trade shows and being creative to attract prospects
• Proposal writing and follow through with negotiated pricing structures
• Attending in-house & delivering external sales training events
• Issuing forecast reports detailing your business pipeline and expected successes in any given period

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience using a consultative sales process
• Demonstrable experience of managing sales teams
• Demonstrable results and a wide network within the IOT / Cloud / M2M industry
• Strong objection handling, negotiation and closing skills
• Excellent written, face to face and phone communication skills
• Natural rapport and relationship builder
• A team player who leads by example
• Ability to lead, coach and inspire
• Commercially confident with the ability to speak with C-Suite contacts on complex topics
• Degree educated
• Experience, knowledge and relationships within Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure / Global SI’s will be highly advantageous

• Are you an experienced Business Analyst?
• Have credible Digital transformation experience within web or mobile?
• Keen to work with a close-knit team where you'll affect genuine change?
• Want to help a UK market leader expand internationally?

Location: Welwyn Garden City - 700M walk from the train station + flexible working

The Company: The UK's leading (privately backed) organisation operating at the forefront of the education sector, now with a mission to expand internationally. How? By offering industry-leading digital services and applications in addition to an already tried and tested market offering in the UK.

Your Impact: Central to these aspirations is change and continuous improvement, and that makes it an exciting time to join! As a Business Analyst, you'll help ensure that every change made meets the real needs of customers, delivering tangible, measurable benefits.

ESSENTIAL Experience:

• An experienced Business Analyst (4yrs+) who can quickly build trust & rapport
• Digital Transformations involving web, mobile app & API development
• Competent within testing process such as UAT
• Proven requirement elicitation within a complex & changing domain
• Must have worked with very senior stakeholders
• Fluency in Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Lean or Kanban
• Confident to operate in different delivery environments with a focus on the bigger picture whilst remaining pragmatic and operating within known constraints.

About you:

• A self-starter, motivated with a strong desire to make a difference
• Gets excited about tough business problems & isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves
• Enthusiasm for continuous learning
• You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions
• Confident & clear communicator able to influence those around you

Salary: C£50-55k + benefits

• Are you an experienced Business Analyst?
• Have credible Digital transformation experience within web or mobile?
• Keen to work with a close-knit team where you'll affect genuine change?
• Want to help a UK market leader expand internationally?

Location: Welwyn Garden City - 700M walk from the train station + flexible working

The Company: The UK's leading (privately backed) organisation operating at the forefront of the education sector, now with a mission to expand internationally. How? By offering industry-leading digital services and applications in addition to an already tried and tested market offering in the UK.

Your Impact: Central to these aspirations is change and continuous improvement, and that makes it an exciting time to join! As a Business Analyst, you'll help ensure that every change made meets the real needs of customers, delivering tangible, measurable benefits.

ESSENTIAL Experience:

• An experienced Business Analyst (4yrs+) who can quickly build trust & rapport
• Digital Transformations involving web, mobile app & API development
• Competent within testing process such as UAT
• Proven requirement elicitation within a complex & changing domain
• Must have worked with very senior stakeholders
• Fluency in Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Lean or Kanban
• Confident to operate in different delivery environments with a focus on the bigger picture whilst remaining pragmatic and operating within known constraints.

About you:

• A self-starter, motivated with a strong desire to make a difference
• Gets excited about tough business problems & isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves
• Enthusiasm for continuous learning
• You'll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions
• Confident & clear communicator able to influence those around you

Salary: C£50-55k + benefits

• Want to work on systems at a major global scale supporting over 240 million customers annually?
• Interested in being part of a newly formed team that will re-engineer these platforms?
• Have a desire to own your area and focus on the latest tech like .Net Core & cloud platforming?
• Have front exp with Angular but want to learn React? 

THE COMPANY: When it comes to innovation and scale few companies can even compare. Over the last 20 years, this e-commerce company has grown exponentially and is now worth £6 billion and has become the largest of its type in the UK & 10th largest globally. They are also heavily focused digitally and massively successful at it too! - last year there were over 168 million visits to their mobile app. 

They offer a very unique culture where communication and collaboration constant, ideas and opinions are strongly welcomed, and innovation is the driving force. You can expect transparency, support, recognition, and genuine progression. 

THE ROLE: As a .Net developer, you’ll be joining a newly formed development team responsible for the design, development, and delivery of some of the company’s most critical applications that support a platform handling 25 million customers per month.

You will be joining the Post Booking team looking after 15-20 core systems & services that manage a booking after it has been initially created. The team delivers updated and new functionality to critical systems on a regular basis for the Airline Giant.

You’ll be working alongside many other teams on differing but inter-connected applications and be a fundamental addition to their migration project -Taking their applications to a newer platform and be the core of the Airline’s in-house development ability for this newer technology stack.

LOCATION: Luton >> Direct train routes from London in 1 hour or less

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive experience in developing solutions using .NET technologies including C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Web Services, Web API, IIS and SQL Server
• Experience of various JavaScript libraries such as JQuery/Knockout/Angular
• Strong on Agile Scrum, particularly TDD/BDD and ideally Dev-Ops!
• A confident communicator who can comfortably liaise with stakeholders and third parties and overall has a strong character.
• Big bonus if you have experience of developing solutions in a high transactional, high availability environment at enterprise scale

BONUS POINTS:

• Experience of using .NET Core
• Experience of Sitecore
• Recent experience working with React
• Experience of DevOps and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure)

PACKAGE:

• Salary base starting at £60,000 up to £75,000 + Annual bonus up to 20%% (17%% average for the last 5 years)
• 1-2 days remote working & flexi-time
• 7%% pension contribution from the company
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with option to buy 5 more days
• Share option schemes (BAYE + SAYE)
• 50%% of rail transport (Thameslink)
• + A range of extra flexible benefits!

• Want to work on systems at a major global scale supporting over 240 million customers annually?
• Interested in being part of a newly formed team that will re-engineer these platforms?
• Have a desire to own your area and focus on the latest tech like .Net Core & cloud platforming?
• Have front exp with Angular but want to learn React? 

THE COMPANY: When it comes to innovation and scale few companies can even compare. Over the last 20 years, this e-commerce company has grown exponentially and is now worth £6 billion and has become the largest of its type in the UK & 10th largest globally. They are also heavily focused digitally and massively successful at it too! - last year there were over 168 million visits to their mobile app. 

They offer a very unique culture where communication and collaboration constant, ideas and opinions are strongly welcomed, and innovation is the driving force. You can expect transparency, support, recognition, and genuine progression. 

THE ROLE: As a .Net developer, you’ll be joining a newly formed development team responsible for the design, development, and delivery of some of the company’s most critical applications that support a platform handling 25 million customers per month.

You will be joining the Post Booking team looking after 15-20 core systems & services that manage a booking after it has been initially created. The team delivers updated and new functionality to critical systems on a regular basis for the Airline Giant.

You’ll be working alongside many other teams on differing but inter-connected applications and be a fundamental addition to their migration project -Taking their applications to a newer platform and be the core of the Airline’s in-house development ability for this newer technology stack.

LOCATION: Luton >> Direct train routes from London in 1 hour or less

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive experience in developing solutions using .NET technologies including C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Web Services, Web API, IIS and SQL Server
• Experience of various JavaScript libraries such as JQuery/Knockout/Angular
• Strong on Agile Scrum, particularly TDD/BDD and ideally Dev-Ops!
• A confident communicator who can comfortably liaise with stakeholders and third parties and overall has a strong character.
• Big bonus if you have experience of developing solutions in a high transactional, high availability environment at enterprise scale

BONUS POINTS:

• Experience of using .NET Core
• Experience of Sitecore
• Recent experience working with React
• Experience of DevOps and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure)

PACKAGE:

• Salary base starting at £60,000 up to £75,000 + Annual bonus up to 20%% (17%% average for the last 5 years)
• 1-2 days remote working & flexi-time
• 7%% pension contribution from the company
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with option to buy 5 more days
• Share option schemes (BAYE + SAYE)
• 50%% of rail transport (Thameslink)
• + A range of extra flexible benefits!