Lead Game Developer

4 Months ago • 2-5 Years • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Rovio is seeking a skilled Lead Game Developer to join their Angry Birds Friends team. This role involves implementing new features, architectural design, C# coding, game optimization, and code quality refinement. Must-haves include strong C# and Unity skills, experience building mobile games, SOLID principles, and debugging proficiency.
Must have:
  • C# and Unity
  • Mobile Game Dev
  • SOLID Principles
  • Debugging Experience
Good to have:
  • F2P Game Dev
  • Performance Optimization
  • Latest Unity Features
  • Code Quality Refinement
Perks:
  • Impactful Work
  • Hybrid Work Model

Job Details

Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here.

We are looking for a mature Game Developer to join the Angry Birds Friends game team as a part of Rovio's Puzzle Studio. You will be a critical addition to the team and help us maintain a big live game while adding new exciting features. We will provide you a chance to have an impact working closely alongside our senior developers on different live features, and the work you and your team delivers will be highly visible to our players worldwide.
We are working in a hybrid mode (2 days in the studio for the whole team) and hope you would like to join us in our studio. 

You will have impact and fun at work by doing:

    • Implementing new game features
    • Participating in architectural design
    • Writing clean and maintainable C# code
    • Optimising the game to run smoothly on mobile platforms
    • Constantly refining the code quality by following good programming principles
    • Improving the game using the newest Unity features

Experience and skills we are looking for:

    • Great programming skills with C# and Unity
    • Experience building and launching mobile games on iOS and Android, F2P games are a nice bonus
    • Hands on experience with SOLID principles
    • Experience with debugging, profiling and performance optimisations
We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.

At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at recruitment@rovio.com.

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About The Company

Rovio Entertainment Corporation is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has eight game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), one in Stockholm (Sweden), one in Copenhagen (Denmark), one in Barcelona (Spain), two in Montreal and one in Toronto (Canada). The studios also include a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games, which was acquired in 2021. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. The company’s shares are listed on the main list of NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange with the trading code ROVIO. Sega Europe Limited has acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares and will delist the company from NASDAQ Helsinki stock exchange as soon as permitted under applicable laws.

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