Job Title: Full Stack Lead Developer
Reports to: Head of Production and Partnerships
Location of Role: Dundee
About the Role
You will be responsible for the full life cycle of the architecture, development and maintenance of our web services and web site.
The ideal candidate will be an expert in web architectures, frameworks and technologies. Will have a passion for web development. An analytical engineer who can articulate their vision clearly and turn vision into strategy and execution, motivating their team members and continually striving for excellence.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Define, create and maintain the underlying architecture
• Design, develop and maintain all the YoYo Games websites and web APIs.
• Collaboration with business, technical and management teams on design and development.
• Evaluate and optimise for best quality and performance, including database layout and access.
• Financial system integration with multiple checkouts (www, marketplace, player).
• Knowledge of usability, human factors, and the UX process.
Experience & Qualifications
Essential skills:
• Excellent and current knowledge of web development techniques, languages and frameworks
• Ruby, ASP.NET, Node.JS (at least one out of three)
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails
• JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5
• Some of Angular.js, Backbone, Ember.js, React.js (or similar technologies)
• Linux command line (Ubuntu)
• MySQL, design and optimisation
• Web server configuration (nginx, Apache)
• Amazon AWS expertise
• Relevant work experience in online commerce environments, distributed systems and/or developing large scale web applications
• Payment process integration (PayPal, Ogone, etc)
• Search engine setup (ElasticSearch)
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and project management skills
Education / Qualification
• Computer Science/Web Computing/ equivalent degree
About us
YoYo Games is the home of GameMaker: Studio™, the fastest and easiest to use cross-platform game development technology. GameMaker: Studio™ has been developed with usability and efficiency at its core, allowing developers to create games in a single code base and then publish them to run natively across an unprecedented number of platforms. The entire GameMaker family of products has been downloaded more than five million times. YoYo Games was recently acquired by Playtech (LSE: PTEC) the international designer, developer, licensor and provider of software and services for the online, mobile, TV and land-based gaming industry.
Located in the city of Dundee, the central hub of the games industry within Scotland; with all-round riverside views, city centre location and an open plan office with its own beach hut, YoYo Games is quite probably the best place to work in Dundee. www.yoyogames.com
To apply for this position, send your current CV to: jobs@yoyogames.com , with “Full Stack Lead Developer” in the subject line…