Senior Software Engineer (UI/UX)
div style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"span style="font-family: Archia;"J/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;"ob Title: Senior Software Engineer br //spanspan style="font-family: Archia;"Team: UI/UXbr //spanspan style="font-family: Archia;"Reporting into: Lead Producerbr //spanbspan style="font-family: Archia;"Hybrid working status:/span/bspan style="font-family: Archia;" Fully remote available/Hybrid /span/divdivstrongspan style="font-family: Archia;"Studio Overview/span/strong/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"We are Sports Interactive /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;background: white;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"The gaming studio behind: /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;background: white;"⚽/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;" Football Manager./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"Founded in 1994, Sports Interactive became a wholly owned subsidiary of SEGA Europe in 2006. Based at the Here East technology hub in Stratford, East London, the SI team continues to expand as we bring our titles to an ever-growing audience across an increasing variety of platforms./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"To support our growth, we welcome the opportunity to connect with passionate people with the drive to match our ambitions and initiative to realise your individual potential./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivbspan style="font-family: Archia;"Position Overview/span/b/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"The UI/UX team are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join the Football Manager team. As part of the UI team, you’ll help shape all aspects of the game’s User Interface across our products./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"This role involves collaborating closely with production, design, QA, gameplay engineers, core tech engineers and stakeholders to ensure we have quality deliverables which flow through the entire end to end experience of Football Manager./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"You will work closely with UI engineering leads and production to drive delivery of our feature roadmap, alongside owning aspects of our UI tooling and systems within Unity to improve and automate our existing processes./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"We expect our senior software engineers to take responsibility for their work, and their own professional development goals, with the objective to continue to develop technical knowledge and enhance their established technical communication skills. We expect senior software engineers to impart good working practices to junior engineers by leading by example and developing their mentoring skills./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;"br /br //span/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"bspan style="font-family: Archia;border: none windowtext 1.0pt;padding: 0.0cm;background: white;"KEY RESPONSIBILITIES/span/bbspan style="font-family: Archia;padding: 0.0cm;background: white;" /span/b/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"bspan style="font-family: Archia;padding: 0.0cm;background: white;" /span/b/divul style="margin-top: 0.0px;"lispan style="font-family: Archia;"Design and implement complex systems./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Own areas of the codebase with the ability to develop new features from scratch and support current features across all supported platforms. /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Work closely with leads and production to drive new features and set long term roadmap./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Work across multiple platforms and projects to ensure we deliver the best performance and experience to our customer base. /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Work with more lead engineers and managers to drive initiatives to improve software engineering at SIspan style="font-family: Archia;font-weight: normal;" /span/span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Develop, extend, improve, and maintain our code base, workflows, documentation and tools. /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Collaborate with other disciplines, including user experience, design, QA and production to contribute to the overall development of our game. /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Managing delegation and assignment and breaking down of technical tasks to junior engineersspan style="font-family: Archia;font-weight: normal;" /span/span/li/uldivspan style="font-family: Archia;" /spanbspan style="font-family: Archia;border: none windowtext 1.0pt;padding: 0.0cm;background: white;"KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS EXPERIENCE/span/bbspan style="font-family: Archia;padding: 0.0cm;background: white;" /span/b/divdiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;"span style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divul style="margin-top: 0.0px;"lispan style="font-family: Archia;"Minimum five years of professional experience with cspan style="color: black;background: white;"onsiderable C++ and C# knowledge./span/span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Professional experience using Unity is essential, with knowledge of Unity UI Toolkit being desired./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;color: black;background: white;"Knowledge of Flexbox and CSS is desired/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;color: black;background: white;"Experience of cross platform game development is important./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Solid understanding of UI/UX design principles with a passion for user experience/span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Experience working collaboratively with UI/UX designers to develop a range of systems./span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Ability to write clean, maintainable, and portable code that is performant./span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Self-motivated with a drive to improve yourself and others continuously. /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team as well as independently./span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Knowledge of Football Manager is essential/span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Knowledge and interest in football is beneficial/span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Experience of mentoring is beneficial./span/li/uldiv style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;line-height: normal;background: white;vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-family: Archia;" /spanbspan style="font-family: Archia;"Benefits of Working at Sports Interactive:/span/b/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"A flexible working policy to best suit you and your team. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Subsidised mental health, therapy and coaching sessions are available. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 7% of annual salary). /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Free onsite evening bar in the Sports Interactive London HQ. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"A well-stocked breakfast bar with cereals, fruits, teas, and coffees. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Regular events in collaboration with our partnered football clubs. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" ️/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Access to our on-site physical and massage therapist services. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Multiple clubs and societies to join e.g., book club and art workshops. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Free access to games released under the SEGA Europe umbrella. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" ️/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"A range of Gym Membership options through our Benefits partners. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" ️/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Fully Subsidised Healthcare and Dental Plans. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Free Travel Insurance for yourself and your family. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;"✈️/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"A personalized football shirt upon passing probation. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"What is it like to work here?/span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;"We approach everything with bpassion/b, whether that is making our mark on the gaming and football industries or doing our bit for the world around us. We want to share that outlook with everyone who shows up to work here each day.br /br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"For us, talent wins games, but teamwork wins titles. Collaboration is the key to constantly topping our best. We believe beveryone matters/b, no matter which part of the business you are in, so we encourage and support our people in driving your own growth and realising your full potential. But, more than anything else, we are a team. A team with a down-to-earth dynamic, that has a lot of fun doing what we do.br /br //span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;"And whether that’s technical tweaks or fine-tuning our creative process, everything is geared at producing the best game possible for our players. To do that, we need to be tenacious and move quickly, and not be afraid of switching things up. It is these principles that have enabled us to produce a game that has defined year after year, and that will continue to push us for many more to come.br /br //span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;"Our flexible working culture gives you the opportunity to optimise your workload, with in-office, hybrid, and remote working options dependent on role. So, if you want a work/life balance, we are behind you. Because while we live to create extraordinary games, we know that is not all you have got going on. You can trust that we always keep things in perspective, fostering an environment bwhere work can be more than just a job/b.br /br //span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;"We’re also a London Living Wage employer, boast one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry and are proud to have won the ‘Best Places to Work’ award by Gamesindustry.biz in large company category in 2023.br /br //span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"ispan style="font-family: Archia;"We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from any relevant candidate irrespective of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. /span/ispan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"ispan style="font-family: Archia;"SI is proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer, and we are dedicated to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. Our studio has disabled access and facilities but please ensure you advise us if you require any other reasonable adjustments to be made to support you during the recruitment process./span/ispan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Our Values:/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Keep collaborating:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Teamwork wins titles - Here, ideas belong to everyone, whatever department you’re part of. Collaboration lets us score more as a team than we could individually.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Be flexible:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" We think fast and adapt faster. The football and entertainment worlds never stand still, so we keep progressing and switching things up to stay ahead.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Stay Tenacious/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;": We don’t overlook the details. Everything we do is about producing the best game possible, in other words, never settle.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Show Ambition:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Let your drive lead the way - Your individual outlook can give everyone the edge. Make the studio’s purpose personal and let your drive lead the way.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Bring the Passion:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Have fun doing your thing - Don’t be fooled, what we do is not a game. Making our players’ passion come to life is our passion.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Consider the Bigger Picture:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Keep things in perspective - We want our impact to be a positive one. From built-in work/life balance to initiatives covering the most important topics of today, we have what matters in focus./span/div
