Senior Full Stack Engineer

Games Workshop; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Pension scheme 7.5%

Profit share bonus

Share Save scheme

Staff discount 25-50%

Job summary

Games Workshop in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join a team delivering customer-facing solutions. You’ll collaborate with developers to create reliable, scalable software and contribute to secure login/registration across global platforms.

You’ll work with TypeScript, GraphQL and AWS technologies, applying TDD and paired programming, while helping drive architectural decisions and keeping costs in check.

Responsibilities

• Understand challenges and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Collaborate with colleagues to deliver at pace.
• Develop secure and scalable systems on AWS with CDK and infrastructure as code.
• Implement reliable login and registration across global platforms.
• Follow robust testing processes and conduct code reviews to improve quality.
• Identify technical debt and drive continuous process improvements.

Skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Attention to quality

Communication

Tools

TypeScript

GraphQL

AWS

AWS CDK

Contentful

GitHub

Serverless

Test Driven Development

Paired Programming

Job description

About The Job

Games Workshop has an exciting opportunity to join us as a Full Stack Engineer. 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!

• 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)
• option to join our Share Save scheme
• a staff discount of between 25% and 50% on our products

Other Essential Information

Closing date for applications is midnight, UK time, Sunday 1st November 2026.