Senior Game Developer - Picante Studio - Match3

2 Hours ago • 5-8 Years • Game Design

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Job Description

Picante Studio, a new Voodoo venture, seeks a Senior Game Developer to build the next generation Match 3 mobile game. Responsibilities include creating innovative gameplay features, writing robust and scalable code, analyzing game mechanics, optimizing performance (memory management, frame rate), and contributing to design decisions. The role requires advanced Unity skills (5+ years), experience with complex game mechanics, AI, and custom tools, along with a strong understanding of the mobile mid-core market and analytics-driven development. You'll collaborate with a senior team to deliver a high-quality, engaging experience for millions of players.
Must have:
  • Advanced Unity (C#, UI, physics, animation)
  • Complex gameplay mechanics & AI
  • Performance optimization & memory management
  • Analytics-driven development & A/B testing
  • 5+ years experience
Good to have:
  • CI/CD pipeline experience
  • Custom tools development
Perks:
  • Best-in-class compensation
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

Joining our Gaming 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 new studio with a very exciting and ambitious mission: release the next $1B Match 3 game, pioneering the next generation in this category. We aim to elevate quality and innovation in casual, redefine industry standards, and deliver fun to a broad audience. You will be joining this studio as Senior Game Developer.

Role

We are looking for a talented Senior Game Developer with a good understanding of the mid-core mobile game market to help the team deliver fun, innovative, and entertaining features. 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
Benefits: best-in-class compensation and other benefits according to the country you reside.
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About The Company

Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 7 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.


The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL.


Voodoo is now a team of over 750 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to join.


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