Senior Java Server Developer (Games Technology)

About Rovio

Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a Finnish, games-first entertainment company, that creates, develops and publishes mobile games and acts as a brand licensor in various entertainment and consumer product categories. The Company is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started from a popular mobile game in 2009.

The Company offers multiple mobile games, has produced The Angry Birds Movie, which opened number one in theatres in 50 countries, and licenses the Angry Birds brand to consumer products and other entertainment content. The sequel to the animated blockbuster movie is planned to hit cinemas in September 2019. Rovio is headquartered in Espoo, Finland, and has operations also in US, UK, Sweden and China.

Position

The Games Technology team encompasses a whole host of data and analytics expertise areas, including (but not limited to) machine learning, build and submission tools, and cloud infrastructure. Powered by Beacon, Rovio's in-house cloud services platform, the team supports tens of millions of players, capturing 4 billion events and over 1TB of data per day. All of this work results in services and tools that enable successful live operations and continuous optimization in Rovio’s games.

Are you eager to bring mobile games to life? Do you want your work to reach 10’s of millions of gamers around the globe? If yes, you could be the Server Developer we are now looking for to join our Games Technology team in Espoo, Finland.

Our Games Technology team of 70 talented professionals work on projects and services including game development, big data analytics, build and submission tools, audio tech, cloud infrastructure, and our gaming backend as a service Beacon. The team supports tens of millions of players, capturing 4 billion events and over 1TB of data per day.

In this role, you will work closely with our game teams to find great answers to challenges we face building and operating our games. You will work on projects with other members of our highly experienced team of developers and engineers (client, front-end, server, data, machine learning, cloud, QA), product managers and designers.

You will help us with building Rovio’s Beacon service to provide player identity, analytics, personalisation and segmentation, live ops, user acquisition, payments and advertising for all of our games. You can also expect to work on game server infrastructure and microservices.

Your qualification

• 4+ years of recent Java development
• Experience developing RESTful services
• Experience working with NoSQL and SQL databases
• Experience in cloud technologies and orchestration (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform)
• Wide understanding of both software and platform architectures and components used to build them
• Practical experience working in Agile software development teams using Scrum or Kanban
• Passion to work in all parts of software development lifecycle from planning to testing, documentation and deployment
• Team player mind-set with good communication skills especially in English and have a can-do attitude

Will be a plus

• C# and .NET Core experience
• Javascript or TypeScript programming experience
• Linux shell scripting
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Experience with test frameworks and continuous integration systems
• Interest in emerging solutions and technologies, for example, the use of machine learning in gaming