Mind Candy

Software Engineer

Salary: £35-45k + options, depending on experience
Overview:

As a Software Engineer reporting to the Head of Technology, you will develop imaginative and innovative solutions to meet the development needs of the engineering and game development teams.

You will need exceptional problem-solving expertise and attention to detail, as well as the ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic environment and integrate with our highly skilled and diverse team.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Designing and developing end-to-end client-server solutions
• Providing business orientated scalability, performance, security and tuning advice
• Participating in and carrying out design and architecture meetings/reviews
• Creating code of the highest quality and rigorous standards
• Documenting code through comments, unit tests and declarative naming
• Considering code reusability and extensibility at every step of the development lifecycle

Required Skills:

• Programming in Java / ActionScript / JSP / any other language we throw at you
• Adhering to best practices as laid out by the Head of Technology
• Producing work in a timely fashion, with a focus on scoping tasks relative to business priorities
• Adherence to specifications / user stories / patterns laid out for the development
• Being an active participant in the whole development life cycle
• Being an active member of the daily Scrum meetings
• Being a mentor to junior members of the tech team, and a point of contact regarding software design and the thorough understanding user stories
• Working with product stake-holders to create technically accurate user stories by helping them understand technical limitations and work estimates
• Working with the Head of Technology to create the most suitable technical designs based on business priorities and costings
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.

Flash / ActionScript Developer

Salary: £35-45k + options, depending on experience
Overview:

As a Flash / ActionScript Developer reporting to the Head of Technology, you will need exceptional problem-solving expertise and attention to detail, as well as the ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic environment and integrate with our highly skilled and diverse team.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Work with other team members in an exciting, fun and quick moving environment to design, develop and ensure the quality of rich media, web-based applications built with Adobe Flash
• Advanced problem solving
• Meet tight deadlines

Required Skills:

• Highly proficient with OO AS 2.0 and 3.0
• Knowledgeable about the core Flash API – used to working with all forms of dynamic content (audio, video, animation etc)
• Understanding of MVC frameworks
• Familiar with use of REST and XML for back-end communications
• Confident working in Eclipse with either Flex Builder or FDT
• Able to use SVN or similar version control systems
• Experienced in full lifecycle, team-based development work

Desirable Skills:

• A foundation in C or Java programming
• Web and graphics design experience (fully standards-compliant)
• Audio production (for the web)
• An interest in social networking and game design
• Experience in Flex RMI to a Java back-end
• Education in Computer Science or related discipline

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.

Business Intelligence Engineer

Salary: £35 – 45k + options (dependant on experience)
Overview:

As a Business Intelligence Engineer reporting to the Head of Technology, you will develop imaginative and innovative solutions to meet the business intelligence needs of our game design, customer support, engineering and management teams.

You will help us gain valuable insights into all our external and internal software projects related to our rapidly growing multi-player game Moshi Monsters, which will lead to increased KPIs and an improved user experience.

You will need exceptional problem-solving expertise and attention to detail, as well as the ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic environment and integrate with our highly skilled and diverse team.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Collaborate with other engineers and teams on key business intelligence technology projects and decision support systems
• Create strong relationships with business stakeholders and game designers to progress new business intelligence initiatives, focusing on changes that lead to increased return on investment
• Develop global reporting systems to support strategic decisions in Mind Candy’s core business
• Design, build, and maintain highly-optimized OLAP systems
• Perform proactive analysis and make recommendations that affect critical technical initiatives

Required Skills:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science and/or statistics related field preferred
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Working knowledge of industry standard data analysis tools
• Experience programming at least one scripting language such as Perl, Python or Ruby
• Experience in a Java / J2EE environment
• Data warehousing/data modeling/data analysis experience
• Experience with financial reporting systems

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working with social networks, online gaming and children’s properties
• Experience of Postgresql
• Experience of distributed query engines such as Hadoop map / reduce
• Experience of performance tuning database engines
• Experience of Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with Mac OS X
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.