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Lead Mobile Game Engineer

Magic Fuel Games is a well-funded video games startup founded by a group of experienced developers who have built a world-class internal team to develop titles with global appeal and forged partnerships to amplify our ability to create games. We are looking for team members to join us on this journey who are passionate about developing games and shaping the company that they work in.

The team we're building is important to us, as we believe that it is the people who define the culture of the company and create its successes. We want to work with energetic, creative contributors who bring a fun vibe to the process of making games.

Who You Are:

You are an experienced engineer who has worked on a number of titles that have launched on Android and iOS. You should have a deep understanding of game client technology and how that meshes with the server, and be able to deal with any challenge. You can speak game design with designers, confidently prototype ideas and then make the transition to solid, production code. You have led engineering teams and been involved in the planning of projects and making assessments of technical designs and monitoring project progress as well as being an individual contributor.

You are passionate about developing games and working with others to shape the continued growth of the company and its culture. Our team is small and you can strongly influence the team's technology and engineering practices.

Your Role:

You will be part of an internal leadership team that is working with a partner team at our investor, Seasun Games. As part of that leadership team you will make decisions on technical feasibility and approach, measure progress and provide advice and help where necessary. Our teams at Magic Fuel Games have built tools and technology extending Unity that you would be expected to contribute to and improve.

This role is one that will change as the project goes from initial concept to production and onto launch and beyond and the goals will change accordingly.

During pre-production:

• Working with the internal design team to evaluate concepts for technical feasibility
• Building relationships with our partner engineering team and prototyping concepts with them

During Production and Post Launch:

• Working with the internal design team to evaluate game designs and review the partner team's technical designs
• Acting as a bridge between the partner engineering team and the internal technology team
• Reviewing code
• Building features
• Explaining complex problems clearly and presenting potential solutions and their advantages and disadvantages

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree or better in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• A deep knowledge of Unity
• Experience working on an iOS or Android title using Unity
• A broad knowledge of game engineering concepts including but not limited to: UI, graphics and server
• The ability to write well-structured and optimal code in C#
• Awareness of the constraints faced by a mobile game and the impact they have on architecture
• Desire to work in a creative, inspired start-up environment
• A passion to continue to improve yourself and those you work with

What would be a bonus:

• Proficiency in Mandarin

What we offer:

• 100% paid medical, dental and vision coverage
• Equity grants
• Profit sharing plan
• Cool office close to Bart