Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: Remote, UK
Reporting to: Lead Software Engineer
Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 per annum
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Company Overview
At Lockwood, our vision is to bring people together through Avakin Life, where players can play, share, and socialize in one of the world's largest and most populous metaverses. Avakin Life provides an immersive 3D life simulation experience for millions of users worldwide.
With a focus on innovation and collaboration, Lockwood offers a flexible and creative environment that empowers our teams to push the boundaries of what’s possible. We provide competitive benefits, including an employee share scheme, making Lockwood an exciting destination for those passionate about shaping the future of digital experiences. This position is available as a fully remote role, though there may be occasional meetups for social interaction and strategic sessions.
Role Summary
We are looking for an individual eager to be part of our Live Ops Engineering team building and scaling the systems and internal tooling that powers Avakin Life, ensuring the platform continues to deliver an outstanding experience for millions of players. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the team collaborate and effectively build scalable, reliable, and secure internal systems that support our mission to create an unparalleled social gaming experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with teams across Lockwood to identify necessary functionality and efficiency improvements and to determine the correct solution.
- Work collaboratively within the cross-functional team to deliver maximum value in an agile environment.
- Take on new technical skillsets as the role requires.
- Manage risk through a dev-ops culture and thorough testing, maintaining high quality.
- Analyse the system for issues and resolve as priority dictates.
- Continuously improve the development and planning process.
- Understand what is valuable to the company, and how work relates to that.
- Take ownership of the system produced.
- Contribute to a strong team sense of identity and spirit.
- Foster a learning culture within the team.
- Work within best practices for secure, compliant, and reliable systems.
Requirements
Requirements
Essential:
- 5+ years experience in software engineering
- Professional understanding of agile concepts and processes
- Good knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Solid grasp of dev-ops concepts and processes
- Effective time management and estimation skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-motivated in work and willing to learn new skills.
- Ability to adapt to change with resilience.
- Understanding of back-end development best practices
- Strong knowledge of UX/UI best practices
- Strong expertise in frontend development primarily in React and WordPress, or similar technologies.
- Experience in backend development primarily in Python and Golang, or languages such as Java, Node.js, or C#
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and distributed computing
Desirable:
- Experience in the gaming industry or large-scale interactive systems.
- Familiarity with messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar
- Proficiency with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack
- Experience with AI/ML integration in backend systems.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization tools (Docker).
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with Terraform, or awareness of IAC with willingness to learn
- Strong background in designing scalable, high-performance systems.
*Please note our initial CV screening may be completed with support from AI
Benefits
Benefits
At Lockwood, you’ll be part of an inclusive, creative, and highly motivated team. You’ll work on systems used by millions of players, shaping the live game experience and ensuring we can deliver new content and events rapidly and reliably. This is your opportunity to make a real impact—not just on our games, but on the future of how we operate.
- Private Healthcare Plan
- Pension Plan
- Life Assurance
- Work From Home
- Training & Development
- Employee Assistance Programme
*benefits will depend on location and local legislation
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Professional understanding of agile concepts and processes
- Good knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Solid understanding of DevOps concepts and processes
- Effective time management and estimation skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-motivation and willingness to learn new skills
- Ability to adapt to change with resilience
- Understanding of backend development best practices
- Strong knowledge of UX/UI best practices
- Frontend development expertise, primarily with React and WordPress or similar technologies
- Backend development experience, primarily with Python and Golang, or Java, Node.js, or C#
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and distributed computing
- Experience in the gaming industry or large-scale interactive systems
- Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems
- Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack
- Experience integrating AI/ML into backend systems
- Proficiency with AWS, Azure, or GCP and Docker
- Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with Terraform or awareness of infrastructure as code
- Strong background designing scalable, high-performance systems
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What We Do
Lockwood develops and publishes Avakin Life, the biggest virtual world on mobile. Over 200 million downloads so far on iOS, Google Play and Amazon
