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Staff Game Engineer

5 Days ago • All levels • Game Engine

Job Summary

Job Description

Wildlife Studios seeks a Staff Game Engineer to join its Live Games Tech Team in Brazil. Reporting to the Technical Director, this individual contributor will play a crucial role in a large-scale live game. Responsibilities include architecting software for new projects and features, designing and implementing metagame logic, collaborating on key technical decisions, estimating tasks and planning roadmaps, guiding junior engineers, and improving engineering processes. The ideal candidate is passionate about software development, experienced with large-scale systems, and comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
Must have:
  • Solid software development experience
  • Bachelor's degree in CS/related field
  • Large-scale system experience (millions of users)
  • Backend service development expertise
  • DevOps culture experience
  • Strong problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • Gaming industry experience (mobile preferred)

Job Details

We're looking for a talented and passionate Staff Game Engineer to join Wildlife's Live Games Tech Team in Brazil

As a Staff Game Engineer, you will report to the Technical Director of the game, and you'll play a key role in one of our largest live games, played by millions of people. As a staff engineer, you will participate in the full cycle of game development. You will make core decisions such as the overall software architecture and technology stack. However, you will not (only) act as a software architect. Additionally, you will be involved in the design and implementation of all other technical aspects of the game, such as gameplay mechanics, metagame logic and game world economy, both in the mobile app and in the server. You will guide other engineers of the technology team in solving their toughest technical challenges, collaborate with the project tech lead of the team to raise the technical bar of our projects, and disseminate your technical knowledge across the entire team. You won't have direct reports and will be an individual contributor, allowing you to have more time to go deeper into technical challenges. 

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, and comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business. 

What you'll do

  • You will set overall software architecture of new game projects and new features;
  • You will collaborate with key technical decisions and validate the engineering projects for the game;
  • You will design software, implement, and write tests for metagame business logic on game app and services, including the development of APIs;
  • You will estimate engineering-related tasks making assumptions about dependencies and risks, and plan roadmaps, releases and sprints the team members;
  • Provide timely transparency of development status and risks to interested parties
  • Proactively look for problems in processes and propose improvements
  • You will help to solve the most challenging technical issues in the game, partnering with team members to solve them;
  • You will coach more juniors engineers to achieve technical excellence in the project; 
  • You will identify inefficiencies in the current engineering way of working and propose systems, tools and/or processes that engineering managers need to put in place to solve them;
  • You will perform and collaborate to establish a strong engineering culture including processes like code review, pair programming, architecture reviews, automated tests coverage targets, etc..
  • You will ship new versions to production, supervise metrics and user feedback after the release;

What you'll need

  • Solid professional experience in software development professional;
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience;
  • Experience in handling large scale systems (several million users);
  • Plus: experience in the gaming industry, preferably in mobile gaming

More about you

  • You're passionate about software development and knows how to ensure its quality;
  • You're motivated by building up back-end services and is aware of its different architectures;
  • Experienced working in an environment which uses and stimulates DevOps culture;
  • You're creative when solving problems and is continuously seeking improvements for processes and solutions;
  • You can communicate clearly with your team and the company to identify issues and demands;
  • You have the autonomy to recognize the current and new priorities, evaluating the impact of their outcomes in the final result.

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. Today, we have offices in Brazil, Finland, and the United States. Here, we create 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 reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. 

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