Senior Game Developer

About MAG (in brief!) 

At MAG Interactive we make mobile games that feel good. As a part of this fun and dynamic industry, it’s our mission to spread joy to players around the world. With over 350 million downloads globally, we credit our success to our awesome colleagues and we hope you'll join the team

Job Description: Senior Game Developer

At MAG, we’re looking for a talented and experienced Senior Game Developer to develop high-performance game cores. This role is perfect for someone who excels in crafting scalable, reusable systems with robust architecture, ensuring smooth and efficient gameplay.

You’ll help build the core mechanics for games like Match-3, TileMatch, and Solitaire, creating systems that are not just fun to play but also smooth, solid, and built to last.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop game cores such as Match-3, TileMatch, and Solitaire in Unity using C#, ensuring they’re snappy, polished, and reusable across multiple projects. 
• Build and refine game mechanics with a focus on player experience, considering timing, animations, and overall gameplay feel. 
• Design and implement tools around the game core, such as editors, to support smooth content creation and iteration. 
• Refactor and maintain existing codebases, ensuring they are easily extendable, scalable and built for performance. 
• Collaborate with teammates to align on game feel, art and technical needs. 
• Write structured, testable, and extendable code that supports growth and scalability. Optimize for performance and readability.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in game development, particularly in building and refining game cores and mechanics.
• A solid understanding of software engineering principles, with the ability to design and maintain scalable, shareable architectures.
• A proven track record of developing tools like level editors that enhance the game development process.
• Expertise in writing clean, performant, and maintainable code.
• A good feel for timing, animations, and gameplay flow, with an eye for the player’s perspective.
• A passion for collaboration, creativity, and continuously improving both processes and products.
  
  Nice to have:

• Tech art knowledge, such as shaders or visual effects could be a bonus skill.

Perks and Benefits

• Generous company bonus
• Company mobile phone and contract
• Favorable pension and private health insurance package
• Flexible work hours 
• Seasonal kick-offs
• Gym allowance
• Generous learning and development budget
• Monthly After works
• Enhanced parental leave 
• Company wide carbon off-setting and CSR initiatives
• Free Swedish lessons (if you wish to learn a new language!)

At MAG, we want all of our employees to feel valued, appreciated and empowered to bring their true selves to work!

Our recruitment processes are designed to prevent bias and discrimination against people regardless of; gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect.

About MAG

We are MAG Interactive – a leading mobile developer and publisher of casual mobile games built on a wealth of creativity and passion. We thrive on creating quality experiences that make our players want to come back for more. And Players agree! Combined, the Company’s games have been downloaded more than 350 million times. We create a good times factory with a global reach that continues to grow.

We are all part of a creative, positive and trusting environment where everyone has a sense of ownership over their activities and pride in their work. This open and collaborative working culture at MAG is key to our ability to continuously create top notch games.

Every game released from MAG Interactive has reached a multi-million player base and reached the #1 position in its category in a large number of countries. Our games have been selected Best of Google Play, Best Of App Store by Apple and have reached the #1 word game spot in over 100 countries.

MAG Interactive was founded in Stockholm in 2010.