Senior Full Stack Engineer
Summary
Senior full-stack engineer on an 18-month contract at Games Workshop in Nottingham, building reliable, secure, scalable customer-facing platforms (e.g. login and registration). Day-to-day work centers on AWS serverless development using TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS CDK/infrastructure as code, with TDD, pair programming and code reviews.
About the Job
Games Workshop has an exciting opportunity to join us as a Full Stack Engineer on a 18-month contract. In this role, you'll be part of a team delivering critical customer facing solutions for Games Workshop.
You'll spend time understanding the challenges you are trying to solve, creating high-quality solutions through collaboration with colleagues to ensure you deliver at pace. Working with other Developers and using a strong engineering process, you'll deliver new functionality and changes to our platforms ensuring solutions are reliable, secure and scalable for the Games Workshop business.
You'll use your extensive experience to efficiently deliver quality solutions to business requirements, being aware of platform costs and working to optimise those wherever possible without compromising operations. You'll be highly attuned to the customer, helping deliver a seamless reliable login and registration process whilst understanding the intricacies of operating across global platforms.
Highly collaborative and a team player, you'll work within robust testing processes which facilitate rapid delivery of high-quality software. You'll work consistently to uphold and raise the quality of team output through code reviews and feedback. Always focusing on delivering value to Games Workshop you'll identify technical debt and areas of process improvement.
You'll have experience of working in AWS, with AWS CDK and/or infrastructure as code, to develop secure and scalable systems that are architected according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. You'll be accustomed to using techniques like Test Driven Development and Paired Programming to create secure and performant software.
We're looking for someone who has a positive outlook, regardless of setbacks with great adaptability to change, combined with an understanding of technologies such as TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS Technologies, GitHub, and Contentful.
If you're a Senior Level Cloud Developer who can rapidly deliver solutions to business problems using serverless and cloud-based application stacks and support the adoption of modern technical practices, this could be the position for you:
Working at Games Workshop
At Games Workshop we are looking for people who will do their best to understand the needs of the company and to put those needs first when they are at work. Because of this we believe that what you are like, hence the attitude you show to work and the way you choose to behave is even more important than your skills and experience.
The Warhammer World site is based just outside of Nottingham city centre and benefits from a nearby tram stop and free onsite car parking.
In return for your hard work, you will receive 33 days holiday per year (including public holidays), matching contributory pension scheme up to 7.5%, profit share bonus (subject to GW meeting profit targets) and option to join our Share Save scheme. Oh and let's not forget, a staff discount of between 25% and 50% on our products!
Other Essential Information
Closing date for applications is midnight, UK time, Sunday 27th September 2026
How to Apply
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