Senior Game Developer - Hole.io
Job Summary
Job Description
Voodoo seeks a Senior Game Developer to join its Live games team, working on the popular title Hole.io. This role involves creating innovative gameplay features, writing robust code for millions of users, analyzing game mechanics, and contributing new ideas. The ideal candidate possesses advanced Unity skills (5+ years), expertise in complex gameplay mechanics and AI, and experience with performance optimization and CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include fleshing out game designs, overseeing testing, and revising based on player feedback. The successful candidate will have a significant impact on the company, contributing to key decisions within a senior team. The position is based in Barcelona or fully remote within the CET +/-2h time zone.
Must have:
- Advanced Unity knowledge (5+ years)
- C# scripting, UI, physics, animation
- Complex gameplay mechanics & AI
- Performance optimization & memory management
- Experience with live games & A/B testing
Good to have:
- CI/CD pipeline experience
5 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.
This position is Barcelona-based or fully remote within CET +/-2h.
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.
Joining our Live games team means collaborating with gaming industry experts on globally renowned, enduring games while embracing exciting new entrepreneurial ventures. With over seven billion downloads worldwide and a portfolio of more than 10 resilient hybrid games generating more than $20m per year, we are the world's largest and most successful hybrid publisher.
Voodoo is creating a small experimentation team with a big mission: find the next best way to entertain the world by taking our best hits to a new level.
You will be joining one of our Live Studios, working on Hole.io.
Role
We are looking for a talented Senior Game Developer with a good understanding of the casual mobile game market to help the team deliver fun, innovative, and entertaining games. You will take an innovative approach to gameplay ideas/features and give them their own spin.
- Create innovative hit games
- Write robust code to be used by millions of users
- Ability to deconstruct, analyze and adapt mobile games mechanics
- Support and contribute new ideas to game features
With this role, you will have a strong impact on the company by contributing daily to important decisions with a senior, 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.
Profile
- A creative and hacker mindset
- Advanced Unity knowledge (5y+) including scripting in C#, UI systems, physics, animation, particle systems, etc.
- Experience in complex gameplay mechanics, AI systems, and custom tools development
- Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing optimizations, with a strong focus on memory management, frame rate stability, and reducing load times
- A previous experience with CI/CD pipelines would be a plus
- Experience with analytics-driven development and A/B testing in live games
- Good sense of gameplay experience and special attention to details
- Speak and write English
- Track record with successful mobile games
- Professional game development experience
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