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Requirements
- Experience in game development and having worked on at least one game title in a commercial setting developing server backends for AAA games, free-to-play (mobile) games, casino apps or similar, with a large number of concurrent users
- Production experience with at least one of Java, Golang, C#, C++, Kotlin
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure; having an AWS Certification (Associate or above) would be advantageous
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools, e.g. Terraform
- Demonstrable database experience with both SQL and NoSQL
- Experience building distributed applications
- Experience with Git or Perforce, or other source control software
- Ability to adapt to new tools, languages, and concepts as required by the project
- Knowledge of Microservices and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), especially Kubernetes and Docker
- Have used or built a CI/CD pipeline to validate and test code
- An understanding of how to use LLMs to process and query structured and unstructured data
- Experience using Gen AI for code generation
- Ability to create supporting documentation, designs, comments, etc
- Excellent time management and ability to work autonomously
- Attention to detail with ability to comprehend and follow direction
- Clear communicator with the ability to verbalise conceptual thoughts and the willingness to accept constructive critique
Responsibilities
- Individual contribution: construct systems, write code, deployments, etc.
- Work with the team lead and stakeholders to estimate and prioritise work
- Work alongside peers to iterate on solutions that fit requirements
- Keep the project lead and producer apprised of revised estimates and delivery times
- Promote high standards and process: tests, CI/CD, documentation
- Help and support team members in day-to-day work
- Understand, maintain and expand existing code and develop new features or systems
This role at a glance
This is one of 9 programming and engineering roles open in Scotland today, out of 590 live games jobs across the UK, and Climax Studios (Keywords) is hiring for 4 other roles alongside it. The title doesn’t name a seniority, so it most likely sits at mid level — the posting’s requirements are the best guide to the experience wanted. Climax Studios (Keywords) doesn’t publish the salary here; across the 4 mid-level programming and engineering roles on the board that do, the median is £47k.
- Discipline
- Engineering
- Level (from the title)
- Mid-level
- On gamesJobs since
- 24 Jun 2026
- Other Engineering roles in Scotland
- 8
About Climax Studios (Keywords)
Climax Studios is a developer based in Portsmouth, founded in 1988, and part of Keywords Studios since 2021. Over its history it has made original games and worked on major franchises, with credits including Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and the Assassin's Creed Chronicles series.
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