Game Engineer

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

As an engineer in game teams, 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.

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

• Build gameplay, game systems, and features in new games projects
• Define overall software architecture of new game projects and new features
• Design, implement, and test metagame business logic on game app and services, including the definition of API endpoints and their implementation
• Understand internal game services in detail, and integrate them in new game projects
• Perform code review and design review of other people’s work
• Integrate UI assets and motion animations
• Estimate engineering-related tasks making assumptions about dependencies and risks clear
• Write automated tests
• 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;
• You will coach more juniors engineers to achieve technical excellence in the project;
• 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

• 3+ years of software development professional experience;
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience;
• Experience in handling large scale systems (several million users);
• Working proficiency in English (all documents and some meetings are in English),
• Plus: experience in the gaming industry, preferably in mobile gaming;
• Plus: experience with Unity, C#, Node and Kubernetes

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, Argentina, Ireland, 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 accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.