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Database Engineer (PostgreSQL & Python) - MUST BE BASED IN THE UK • Opportunity for a Database Engineer (Junior/Mid/Senior) to join a remote-first, UK-headquartered technology business, • Competitive salary between £45,000 - £70,000 + excellent benefits including remote working, autonomy, and the chance to work on an Educational AI platform WHO WE ARE: We are a remote-first technology organisation headquartered in the UK, with a distributed team across Europe. The business operates in a highly data-driven environment, working closely with Product and Data Science teams to support an Educational AI pipeline. Data reliability, performance, and scalability are central to the platform, and this role plays a key part in maintaining and evolving the underlying data infrastructure. You’ll be joining a collaborative, distributed engineering team, with the opportunity to take real ownership of database systems and tooling. OUR BENEFITS: • Remote-first working model, • Autonomous, trusted working environment, • Collaborative and inclusive engineering culture, • Opportunity to work closely with AI and Data Science teams, • Clear ownership and technical influence, • Long-term, permanent role, • And more… WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING? As a Database Engineer, you’ll sit at the intersection of database administration and software engineering. You’ll be responsible for building and maintaining high-availability PostgreSQL environments, ensuring performance, security, backups, replication, and recovery are robust and reliable. Alongside this, you’ll write production-quality Python to automate database operations, build bespoke tooling, and support the evolution of the wider data platform. You’ll contribute to database migrations and scaling initiatives, enable clean data access across services via APIs, and document standards and processes to support a distributed development team. This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on long-term platform health rather than short-term fixes. DATABASE ENGINEER – ESSENTIAL SKILLS • Expert-level PostgreSQL experience (complex queries, schema design, optimisation), • Strong Python skills, writing production-quality, testable code, • Experience with database performance tuning, backups, replication, and recovery, • Understanding of data integrity, security, and best practices, • Experience working in a collaborative, distributed engineering environment, • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly, • Full right to work in the UK (no sponsorship) TO BE CONSIDERED… Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly at . By applying to this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.

Code Wizards Group is a world leader in backend and multiplayer infrastructure for the gaming industry. From high-scale AAA console and PC games to fast-paced mobile indie titles, we empower studios to bring multiplayer experiences to life. Within the Group lie Multiplayer Wizards, whose sole responsibility is to help game studios to run and operate their game infrastructure seamlessly for the players. We're on the search for some Contract DevOps Engineering talent to join the team working on some specific game migration work. Are you a highly productive DevOps Engineer, looking to use your wealth of games industry knowledge and your technical DevOps skills to help keep games online and running, whatever challenges are thrown at you? In this role, you will use your skills to help educate others in the team and act as an escalation point for head-scratching problems. Incidents are no problem, and you are happy to pick up and run with an outage, working with internal teams and the customer to keep the game infrastructure online. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Diagnosing and performing root cause analysis on customer infrastructure, including in incident scenarios, • Proactively identify and raise methods of improving team efficiency and procedures to improve support to the customer, • Assisting with escalated issues and navigating scenarios across multiple teams, • Writing clean, scalable, and performant scripts & code, • Forming part of a regular on-call rotation supporting our customers and internal teams SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE • Experience working in the gaming industry having migrated a live service game in production., • Knowledge of backend systems for online games and ideally exposure to game engines, Unity, Unreal etc., • An excitement to expand your knowledge on unfamiliar infrastructure and tools, • Automation knowledge on a wide variety of tools – Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, and Kubernetes, etc., • Prior experience migrating a game from one Cloud provider onto AWS, • Excellent knowledge of containers, virtual machines and Linux server administration, • Demonstrable experience in programming or personal code-based projects. Please note, initially, we will be looking at people with knowledge of the Games Industry.