Senior Game Engineer

1 Month ago • 1-2 Years • Game Engine

Job Summary

Job Description

Wildlife Studios seeks a Senior Game Engineer in São Paulo to maintain and enhance live games with millions of daily players. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and testing game logic; performing maintenance and updates; shipping new versions; monitoring metrics and user feedback; identifying opportunities to improve code robustness and maintainability; working in an agile environment; and providing development status updates. The ideal candidate has solid mobile game development experience, a computer science degree or equivalent, and proficiency in English. Experience with C++, Objective-C, Java, OpenGL, C#, Unity, backend technologies (JavaScript, Node, GoLang, Kubernetes), and mentoring junior colleagues is a plus.
Must have:
  • Solid mobile game dev experience
  • Published apps on app stores
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent
  • English proficiency
  • Game logic implementation & testing
  • Maintenance & updates of live games
Good to have:
  • C++, Objective-C, Java, OpenGL, C#
  • Unity experience
  • Backend experience (JavaScript, Node, GoLang, Kubernetes)
  • Mentoring junior colleagues

Job Details

We're looking for a talented and passionate Senior Game Engineer, to join Wildlife's Live Games Tech Team working from Sao Paulo.

As a game engineer, you will work on the maintenance of released games, with millions of daily players. You will be involved in activities required to keep the apps alive as well as implementing new features to enhance player experience.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business. 

What you'll do

  • Work on live games with millions of active players.
  • Design, implement and test business logic on games and services.
  • Perform maintenance and updates to keep the game running live.
  • Ship new versions to production, supervise metrics and user feedback after the release.
  • Help to identify technical opportunities to make the code base more robust, easier to maintain, and easy to implement new features.
  • Work in an agile environment and proactively look for opportunities to improve processes.
  • Provide timely transparency of development status and risks to interested parties.
  • You will help to the team to solve the most challenging technical issues in the game.

What you'll need

  • Solid professional experience as a software or game developer for mobile platforms, with apps published on the app stores.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Working proficiency in English (all documents and some meetings are in English).
  • Plus: experience with C++, Objective C, Java for Android, OpenGL, C#, Unity.
  • Plus: experience with backend (JavaScript, Node, GoLang, and Kubernetes).
  • Plus: experience being a technical reference for more junior colleagues.

More about you

  • You are motivated to work on games that have millions of players.
  • You feel comfortable navigating on large projects and investigating the code to understand how things work.
  • You are proactive, understand overall goals, and work towards them autonomously.
  • You like to learn different technologies.
  • You can differentiate when we can use hacky solutions in favor of speed and when it's important to have long term thinking.
  • You can communicate clearly with your team and the company to identify issues and demands.

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Here, we create and maintain games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

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