Java Games Developer

Team Overview:

This role would join the growing global based team where the successful candidate will enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced and exciting environment using the latest technologies. You will be comfortable working within an agile and creative development environment on a wide variety of exciting products and features, reacting to constantly evolving and rapidly expanding market.

Job Purpose:

The successful candidate must have excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and is expected to take ownership of development tasks and provide estimates and documentation for the chosen solution. Support will form part of the responsibilities and will involve liaising with internal personnel to help investigate and resolve issues.

Description of Job Responsibilities:

• Working with games java lead, project managers, business owners, and external customers to implement new projects and functionality in a fast paced agile environment

• Work alongside a global cross functional team under the guidance of the Games Java Lead
• Maintenance of existing code including bug fixes and optimizations
• Identifying root cause of incidents to improve operational efficiency and deliver suitable solutions
• Documenting developed solutions
• Working with games java lead, project managers, business owners, and external customers to implement new projects and functionality in a fast paced agile environment
• Work alongside a global cross functional team under the guidance of the Games Java Lead
• Maintenance of existing code including bug fixes and optimisations
• Identifying root cause of incidents to improve operational efficiency and deliver suitable solutions
• Documenting developed solutions
• The ability to contribute ideas and solutions which will make a real difference to this fast growing business in the exciting and evolving US gaming market
• Experience working in small teams, using agile methods
• Results driven, assertive and independent
• Proven experience of working on multiple projects in a fast paced team whilst supporting others and self-managing workload within defined priorities
• In-depth knowledge of core Java;
• Java 8 and JavaEE;
• Strong analytical and reverse engineering skills;
• Source Control Management (Bitbucket, Crucible);
• Experience of high and low level design, architecture and modelling;
• Build & Continuous Integration tools (Maven, Jenkins, Ansible);
• Application/Web servers (Tomcat, Tomee, Apache);
• Strong experience with message brokers (Rabbit MQ, Redis)
• Web Application frameworks (SpringMVC, Spring Boot, Spring Security);
• Other Enterprise level technologies (CDI, JAXB, JAX-RS, Taglibs, Servlets, JSP, AMQP, JMS);
• Webservices, REST and Enterprise Integration (Spring Boot, JAX-RS, CXF, Camel);
• DB (Cassandra, Mongo, SQL Server);
• Experience with Containers, Docker;
• Microservice Paradigm;

• Other Duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in Java games development

• Strong emotional IQ (EQ) and demonstrated ability to create relationships with new people quickly and easily and manage those relationships effectively over time
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Self-motivated and solution-oriented
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Confident, strategic thinker
• Strong presentations skills
• Demonstrates ability to adapt to various Client corporate cultures
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to plan strategically, but stay on top of tactical execution

Travel Requirements:

This role may require travel, as mutually agreed from time to time. International travel to GAN’s European offices may be required to facilitate training with other GAN team members.

GAN operates in a highly regulated environment, and candidate may be required to obtain an occupational gaming license in one or more U.S. states, which includes an application of personal data, a criminal and credit check, and fingerprints.  GAN will cover all costs and provide access to an Identity Protection program.