Senior Game Engineer

2 Days ago • All levels • Game Engine

Job Summary

Job Description

Wildlife is seeking a talented and passionate Senior Game Engineer to join their Live Games Tech Team in São Paulo. This role involves maintaining released games with millions of daily players, implementing new features, and ensuring app functionality. The ideal candidate is curious, proactive, and thrives in a fast-paced, growing environment, contributing significantly to the company's success and culture.
Must have:
  • Work on live games with millions of active players.
  • 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.
  • Provide timely transparency of development status and risks to interested parties.
  • Help to solve the most challenging technical issues in the game, partnering with team members.
  • Work in an agile environment.
Good to have:
  • Published apps/games in the mobile app stores.
  • Experience with C++, Objective C, Java for Android, OpenGL, C#, Unity.
  • Experience with backend (JavaScript, Node, GoLang, and Kubernetes).
  • Experience being a technical reference for more junior colleagues.

Job Details

We're looking for a talented and passionate 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.
  • 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.
  • Provide timely transparency of development status and risks to interested parties.
  • You will help to solve the most challenging technical issues in the game, partnering with team members to solve them.
  • Work in an agile environment.

What you'll need

  • Experience developing mobile apps or games.
  • 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: you have published apps/games in the mobile app stores.
  • 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 like to learn different technologies.
  • You are proactive, understand overall goals, and work towards them autonomously.
  • You can communicate clearly with your team.

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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About The Company

We're a Brazilian native global company and 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. In early 2019, we decided to expand globally, opening offices worldwide. This way, we can reach more incredible people and unique knowledge to scale our development and delivery capacity. Today, we have offices in the United States, Ireland, and Argentina – besides, of course, Brazil. Being in Wildlife is about being part of something big! Our team is made of exceptional people who are dedicated to creating incredible things. We dream of being the best technology company to work for in the world and we aspire to develop games that will be remembered by generations.

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