Why PlayStation?
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.
PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.
The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Department overview:
The Digital Technology & Information Service (DTIS) is a customer-centred organisation creating and sustaining business value through simple, fast, and innovative engineering and technology solutions that help make PlayStation the best place to work and the best place to publish games and digital content. We have twenty-seven engineering teams distributed across our London, Liverpool, San Mateo, and Los Angeles engineering centres, who are building and supporting the platforms that game developers are using to build and market their next generation of games .
Role overview:
At PlayStation our engineers are driven by the desire to ensure that PlayStation remains the best place to play and the best place to work. This drive is fuelled by our core values and behaviours. We know our growth is dependent on increasing the value we deliver to customers. We focus our energy on improvements that will make a real difference to SIE and the customer.
You'll be part of the global DTIS - Commerce team working on building applications and services that support PlayStation partners in bringing game concepts from idea to life both physically and digitally on the PlayStation Network.
You'll be able to work within a highly skilled team of engineers working as part of an agile delivery team, alongside a number of regional and global teams spread across London, Liverpool and Los Angeles, and will be responsible for technical implementation of the applications or systems your team will be delivering.
What you’ll be doing:
- You will collaborate with other technical teams towards sharing best practices and ensuring consistency in technology, approach and tool adoption as well as the creation of common components where applicable.
- You will work closely together with other software engineers to deliver software applications; constantly looking for ways to improve the quality of the solution through static code analysis, unit, system, and regression test automations.
- You will interface with product owners, product managers, and technical leads to engineer and deliver solutions.
- You will engage with remote teams across Europe, the USA, and Japan and may travel, on occasion, to attend meetings and workshops across locations.
What we’re looking for:
- Highly proficient in React.js or React Native, object oriented asynchronous JavaScript, TypeScript and related libraries
- Proficient with at least one widely adopted single page application (SPA) architecture
- Highly proficient in HTML5 / CSS3
- Experience creating and maintaining restful APIs using Java and Spring Boot with a familiarity of microservice architecture
- Good working knowledge of database design and implementation (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Writing unit, integration and automation tests (eg: Jest, Webdriver.io, Junit, Mockito)
- Good knowledge and working experience of AWS Web Services (S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, SQS, SNS etc)
- Passionate about writing clean, readable and maintainable code
- Exhibit our core behaviours: Always Learning, Outcome Focused, Accountable, Adaptable and Respectful
- Collaborative; a team player looking to share and learn from others in the team; thriving in a high performing team environment
- Comfortable in collaborating with geographically remote teams over various communication channels
Benefits:
- Discretionary bonus opportunity
- Hybrid Working (within Flexmodes)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Dental Scheme
- 25 days holiday per year
- On Site Gym
- Subsidised Café
- Free soft drinks
- On site bar
- Access to cycle garage and showers
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
