Hive Games is a UK-based game studio providing development services and creating interactive content for well-established games.
We operate The Hive, the largest Minecraft: Bedrock Edition server, delivering a constantly evolving multiplayer experience to millions of players. Alongside this, we work closely with Microsoft as a vendor, contributing to the Minecraft franchise through projects like Chunker World Converter. We’re also developing SkyBlock: Horizons, an ambitious open-world MMORPG coming to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.
We don’t have fixed start dates for our roles—our approach is to bring in talented people when the right opportunity aligns. If you’re a great fit, we’ll look at making room rather than waiting for a specific need to arise. So if you're interested, we encourage you to apply regardless of when the listing was originally posted.
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 game engineer on the anti-cheat team, you'll work on systems to ensure fair gameplay on our official Minecraft featured server.
You'll work within our small anti-cheat team, alongside the player safety team, responding to ever evolving cheating methods; creating new and improving current cheat detections. Due to the scale of infrastructure, there will be a key focus on performance and optimisation.
Candidates should be self-motivated with good project management skills.
Example work items may be; creating new detections for new cheating methods, re-writing existing detections to be more performant, and investigating cheats to recommend suggested actions for optimal detection.
Requirements
- 3+ years experience with Java
- Deep understanding of the Minecraft engine
- Experience creating efficient multi-threaded applications
- Strong project management skills
- Demonstrable experience working with heurestical data
Nice to Have
- Understanding of prevalent vulnerabilities and exploitation methods of multiplayer games
- Experience designing and working with data classifications algorithms
- Experience creating statistical models with large data sets
- Experience with Netty
- Motivated by creating great games
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: 28 days AND bank holidays (8 days on average)
- Very fair 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.