Senior Game Developer (freelance)

3 Weeks ago • 5 Years + • Game Programmer

Job Summary

Job Description

CoolGames seeks a freelance Senior Game Developer to contribute to the creation of engaging casual games for a global audience. Responsibilities include developing new titles, evolving existing games, optimizing code, debugging, performing code reviews, ensuring platform compatibility, and maintaining game stability. Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team is key. The ideal candidate possesses at least 5 years of professional programming experience, strong knowledge of development best practices, and a proactive approach to problem-solving and communication. Experience with web game technologies (PIXI/Phaser/Three.js), HTML5 games, TypeScript, and JavaScript are highly valued.
Must have:
  • 5+ years professional programming experience
  • Solid knowledge of development best practices
  • Clean, readable, maintainable code
  • Proactive communication & risk mitigation
  • Agile/Scrum experience
  • Git experience
Good to have:
  • Experience with web game tech (PIXI/Phaser/Three.js)
  • Experience with HTML5 games, TypeScript and JavaScript

Job Details

Description

Are you an ambitious senior game developer with a passion for creating engaging experiences? Do you want your work to reach millions of players worldwide? Join our team as a freelancer and apply today. Collaborate with a multinational team of developers and contribute to creating captivating casual gaming experiences for a global audience.

About the Role

You will be part of a multidisciplinary development team collaborating with game designers, game artists, quality assurance engineers, and fellow game developers. You work on developing new titles, evolving existing games, as well as contributing to the maintenance and evolving our internal tooling.

You are adept at managing your time and productivity with the goal to deliver robust code while meeting established deadlines.

Next to working on features for our games your responsibilities include optimisation, debugging, fixing bugs, performing code reviews, reviewing requirements, working on platform compatibility and ensuring our games remain stable and performant.

Requirements

About you

You are proactive and thrive on taking ownership and responsibility. You write clean, readable and maintainable code. Sharing your skills and experience with the team is something you have consistently been praised for. You are open to feedback and eager to learn. You embrace collaboration and have a ”you can count on me” attitude. You flourish in an environment where teamwork and communication are important.

 

The right candidate meets most of the following requirements:

  • At least 5 years of experience programming professionally;
  • Solid knowledge of development best practices;
  • Knows how to strike a balance between speed and quality;
  • Estimations are consistently on point
  • Proactively communicates and mitigates technical risk;
  • Excellent at contributing to technical design & technical decision making;
  • Understands the commercial reality of casual games; 
  • Experience with Agile/Scrum development practices;
  • Experience with version control tools like git;
  • Experience with web game tech (e.g. PIXI/Phaser/Three.js);
  • Experience with HTML5 games, Typescript and JavaScript is a plus;

Benefits

About CoolGames
Founded in 2010, CoolGames is a leading web-game-specialized studio based in the historic center of Amsterdam developing high-quality casual games. 

Games distribution via new platforms, beyond the traditional app-stores, is growing steadily. Players can now instantly start a game from within Facebook, Discord, Netflix and many other ‘Big Tech’ game channels. And we have a great relationship and close collaboration with all of them. 

In this changing landscape, where Apple and Google are no longer the sole destinations for casual gamers, CoolGames is successfully publishing high quality web games that are played by millions every month. For our studio, we have an ambitious roadmap to start the development of new game projects to further expand our portfolio for the years ahead.

Working for CoolGames

We are a company which believes it’s important to constantly improve and innovate as we strive to be the best. We work in an informal environment with enthusiastic and smart individuals from all over the world to design and create great games. We have a hybrid work schedule where we strike a balance between face to face collaboration and efficient remote work.

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About The Company

HTML5 GAMES AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE


Cloud gaming, instant fun!


CoolGames is on a mission to reshape the mobile games experience. In the cloud gaming era, games can now be played instantly and shared among billions of people, straight from the cloud without the need to download the game first.


No matter if you are playing games on social media, messenger platforms or websites. CoolGames is dedicated to developing and distributing the very best cloud-based HTML5 games for every player around the globe today.

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