Software Engineer, Java

Overview

In this Software Engineer role at Rockstar Games’ Dundee studio, you design and implement production tools that support fast-paced game development. You will work with cross-functional teams to evolve tooling and learn new technologies to advance our applications. You’ll help shape design guidelines and collaborate with Rockstar technology groups across studios. The role offers hands-on development in a supportive, inclusive environment where your work helps streamline game production and tooling at scale. This is an opportunity to contribute to world-class projects in a renowned studio.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement tooling solutions for game development workflows
• Contribute to the team’s software design guidelines
• Collaborate with Rockstar technology teams across studios
• Develop understanding of systems used and learn new technologies to advance applications

Key requirements

• 3+ years of professional Java backend development
• Strong command of Java (low-level optimization to high-level architecture)
• Deep expertise in Spring Boot ecosystem and JPA/Hibernate
• Experience designing and scaling RESTful APIs
• Solid understanding of MySQL or other major RDBMS with query tuning
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and CDC pipelines
• Proficient in Java performance profiling and debugging
• Comfortable in Linux environments with strong communication and production-support skills

• strong communication
• team collaboration
• problem solving
• Java
• Spring Boot
• JPA/Hibernate

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