Lead Game Developer - New Games
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Lead Game Developer at Voodoo, you'll be instrumental in creating new hybrid casual game prototypes for a global audience. You will contribute to crucial decisions, oversee game design, testing, and revisions based on player feedback. Responsibilities include leading development workstreams, contributing to the studio's model, creating hit mobile games, supporting new game features, writing robust code, analyzing game mechanics, iterating on prototypes, and participating in junior developer recruitment. You'll work within a passionate team and have significant autonomy in shaping game ideas.
Must have:
- 5+ years Unity experience
- Lead game development
- Gameplay expertise
- Teamwork and communication
- Creative and innovative mindset
- Mobile game development success
Good to have:
- Midcore game experience
- Mentoring and team upskilling
Perks:
- Competitive package
- Award-winning office space
4 skills required
Job Details
Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.
Team
Our Gaming team is made up of hybrid-casual, casual and mid-core experts. Our 'Core' games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing and launching new hit games, whilst our 'Live' games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on our existing and successful games.
This is an opportunity to bring your ideas to life, to create your games, in an enjoyable and benign working environment among gaming lovers. Your games will be published by the worldwide leader in this field. You will get the chance to join one of our Core studio focusing on creating and testing new hybrid casual game prototypes to be published by Voodoo. You will have autonomy, a strong impact on the ideation, and a unique opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of players. You will take an innovative approach to gameplay ideas/features and give them their own spin.
Role
With this role, you will be core to the company by contributing daily to important decisions with a multidisciplinary team of passionate and talented people. Flesh out the details of a game's design, oversee its testing, and revise the game in response to player feedback. Thanks to your creativity and your teamwork, let’s entertain millions of people with your hit games.
Our studios are looking for people who bring their own ideas and are always willing to compromise to move forward.
Missions
- Contribute to the development of a best-in-class game dev culture
- Lead game development workstreams
- Contribute to the studio's development and operating model
- Create mobile hit games
- Support and contribute new ideas to game features
- Write robust code to be used by millions of players around the world
- Deconstruct and analyze mobile games mechanics
- Iterate on each prototype thanks to the publishing feedback
- Participate in junior game dev and artist dev recruitment
Profile
- You are interested in casual games and have a track record with successful mobile games (Midcore games would be a plus!)
- You're a natural mentor and have experience in managing and upskilling a dev team
- You have a good sense of gameplay experience and special attention to details
- You have at least 5 years of professional experience on Unity
- You have a creative and hacker mindset
- You teamplay, contribute, challenge and you are benign listener
- You speak and write English
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About The Company
Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 7 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.
The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL.
Voodoo is now a team of over 750 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to join.
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