Back-end developers
ISM Fantasy Games
(2Â months, 4Â weeks ago)
2 x Back-end developers
Salary
£50K to £75k dependent on experience
Job-type
Full-time, permanent.
Location
Remote (UK-based) with occasional travel to Bristol and London.
An exciting opportunity to build fantasy football games for the Premier League!
About us
ISM Fantasy Games are looking for two talented developers to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis.
We’re a world leader in delivering fantasy sports games for our global partners including the Premier League, NBA and Saudi Pro League. With over 10 million players, our flagship Fantasy Premier League product is the biggest fantasy football game in the world!
ISM are a friendly and dynamic team where you will have the opportunity to work with other talented developers, further your development skills and utilise modern technologies.
We predominantly work remotely, but regularly meet up in person to plan and brainstorm new ideas, workshop new features and engage in hackathons.
The successful candidates will join our development team to help shape our Premier League fantasy game products for the enjoyment of fantasy football fans worldwide.
Responsibilities
- You’ll work closely with other team members to develop and improve our fantasy football products for the Premier League.
- On a day-to-day basis, you will collaborate with front-end developers to deliver new and exciting game features.
- You’ll showcase a high attention to detail, while writing well tested, readable, and maintainable code.
- You’ll partake in peer code reviews to ensure all developers maintain a high standard of code quality.
- You’ll help brainstorm new ideas and take an active role in enhancing the experience for our game players.
- You’ll follow an agile Scrum methodology, taking an active part in daily stand-up, sprint planning and retrospective meetings.
Required skills
- Strong Python skills
- 2+ years experience developing high-volume, high-performance Python web applications
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable skills / technologies you’ll be using most days
- Django
- Typescript
- API development
- pytest
- SQL
- Git
- Docker
Some of the additional technologies we use
- FastAPI / Pydantic to develop smaller services which complement our main Django application
- Pandas / Polars / NumPy to develop data intensive services
- Terraform / Helm / Kubernetes to build, deploy and host our infrastructure and applications
To apply, please send a covering email explaining why you are interested in working with us and what you think you can bring to the team, your CV and salary expectations to jobs@ismgames.com.
No agencies please.
Desired skills:
API development, Django, Docker, Git, SQL, Typescript, pytest
Location:
Remote (UK-based) (Remote OK)
Compensation:
£50K to £75k