Welcome to ETHICS CODE! We are a forward-thinking technology company dedicated to ethical software development practices. We are seeking a skilled Java Engineer at the Mid to Senior level to join our dynamic engineering team. As a Java Engineer at ETHICS CODE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Java applications that meet business needs. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, QA, and DevOps to deliver scalable and efficient solutions. Responsibilities - Develop and maintain Java-based applications ensuring performance, quality, and responsiveness. - Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements. - Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices. - Participate in code reviews, testing, and troubleshooting to ensure software quality. - Work with DevOps teams to deploy and monitor applications in various environments. - Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure continuous improvement.

Role Description We seek experienced high-performing Software Quality Engineers for positions involving quality assurance and test automation for a Private Cloud Platform solution aimed at enabling distributed Edge computing. You will join a highly skilled team delivering a highly distributed private cloud platform supporting containerized applications in addition to supporting virtual machines and bare metal nodes. Responsibilities and Duties - Analyze requirements, create test plans and test cases, execute functional/exploratory tests; - Automate tests through use of test automation tools and through code development; - Interact with Software Development team in order to complete ticket cycles; - Analyze system and applications and propose test strategy; - Participate in technical discussions with customer; - Coordinate with development team to drive product quality; - Report/Monitor/Verify issues in defect tracking tool (JIRA, Bugzilla, etc); - Perform regression tests to validate fixes. Qualifications - Experience with Python for testing; - Experience with Kubernetes and containers; - Knowledge of creating scripts using automated testing tools; - Experience working on Linux platforms. Requirements - Experience developing test cases/plans and ability to analyze code to identify root cause of issues; - Experience working with testing tools: Pytest Framework / Cypress; - Experience working in an Agile / Scrum / Kanban environment. Company Description Encora is the preferred digital engineering and modernization partner of some of the world’s leading enterprises and digital native companies. With over 9,000 experts in 47+ offices and innovation labs worldwide, Encora’s technology practices include Product Engineering & Development, Cloud Services, Quality Engineering, DevSecOps, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience, Cybersecurity, and AI & LLM Engineering. At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.

• Develop, maintain, and optimize services and APIs in Java (Spring Boot or similar frameworks) • Implement integrations between systems and relational and non-relational databases • Ensure the scalability, security, and performance of backend applications • Collaborate with frontend developers for API integration and to resolve technical dependencies • Contribute to architectural decisions, coding standards, and best practices • Perform tests and participate in code reviews to ensure the quality of deliverables

Soulbound, a cutting-edge indie game studio based in London, building a cross-platform MMORPG with pixel art aesthetics and browser-based access. We've built infrastructure for a single-shard game world that spins up localised regional clusters for instanced combat, delivering low-latency action RPG gameplay with the flexibility for players to play with anyone, from anywhere in the world, at any time. The game features real-time player-shared worlds, co-op dungeons, 10-player raids, player housing, questing, online and offline background crafting, auction houses, and live chat. All of it running simultaneously, all of it real-time. The Role We need backend engineers who can help us scale this infrastructure for launch and beyond. You'll work directly with our CTO on the systems that keep thousands of players connected, fighting, trading, and exploring in the same world simultaneously. Our backend is 60+ microservices running on Google Kubernetes Engine. Stateful game servers, event-driven architecture with Kafka, MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases, WebSocket real-time communication, and multi-cluster orchestration. The system works at current scale, your job is making it work at 10x that. This role is perfect for a passionate individual contributor eager to tackle some of the most thrilling, challenging, and distinctive problems in contemporary software development. The real-time demands of an online MMO present a one-of-a-kind opportunity, and we’re searching for the brilliant mind ready to dive into these intricate, interconnected systems. What You'll Do - Build, optimise, and scale backend services powering real-time multiplayer gameplay - Work with GKE, Helm, and Kubernetes to manage deployments and autoscaling for stateful game servers - Improve observability: monitoring dashboards, alerting (Prometheus/Grafana or GCP Cloud Monitoring), and incident response - Scale distributed databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL) under high concurrent load - Optimise Kafka event streaming for player actions, game state, and inter-service communication - Identify and resolve bottlenecks before they become player-facing problems - Improve resilience and prevent cascading failures across services - Collaborate on architectural decisions with a small, senior engineering team