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
We're looking for talented candidates to join our development team. Teams we are looking to expand include, but are not limited to:
- (Minecraft) Server development: our server internals teams maintains and improves our custom, cleanroom Minecraft: Bedrock Edition compatible server stack
- Minigame development: Our minigame developers maintain, improve and create new server minigames.
- MMO development: Our MMO/Skyblock team works on our upcoming SkyBlock: Horizons Minecraft server
- Backend and services: our backend / services team maintain our various (micro)services, as well as creating new ones
Whilst most of our code is in Java, various services and systems are written in GoLang, NodeJS, Python and Rust.
Candidates should be self-motivated with good project management skills.
Requirements
- 2+ years experience with Java
- Strong project management skills
- Demonstrable experience within Minecraft or another game
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.