Hive Games is a United Kingdom-based game studio providing development services and creating interactive playable content for existing well-established games.
Most of our work is with Microsoft on the Minecraft franchise. We operate one of the top Minecraft: Bedrock Edition servers, The Hive, and provide vendor services to Microsoft, creating and maintaining projects such as Chunker World Converter.
Hive Games at a glance:
- Microsoft Vendor & Minecraft Partner
- Established in 2013
- 8M Monthly Active Users
- Small, agile, global team
- Flexible work environment
Expectations and Responsibilities
As a back-end developer, you will help maintain our existing software stack as well as build new and exciting software. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Maintaining our Bedrock server- and proxy software
- Maintaining existing (micro)services, including game instance management
- Assist our migration to future (micro)services, such as wallets, entitlements and more
Job Requirements
- High level knowledge of Java
- Basic knowledge of C++, or the willingness to learn
- Experience with Netty
- Optionally, experience with RakNet
- Experience implementing game protocols (Minecraft or others)
- Able to write clean code that runs well at enormous scale
Benefits
- Full-time job (40 hours a week)
- Fully remote job
- Flexible working hours
- Low turnover team
- Majority of the current team has been at Hive Games 3+ years
- Employment status offered to UK applicants
- Generous time-off and sick policies
Desired Applicants
We believe in demonstrable talent and skill over written qualifications and, as such, have no formal education requirements to work at Hive Games.
All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, ancestry, colour, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, and/or sexual orientation.