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Senior Game Developer
1 year ago
Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 6 billion downloads and over 300 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #2 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google.
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. Deciding to expand its portfolio of products further, Voodoo has more recently announced that it will invest $200M in blockchain gaming studios, to lead the transformation of mobile gaming.
Voodoo is now a team of over 700 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to come and entertain the world with us.
Team
Voodoo's Gaming business unit is made up of hyper-casual, hybrid-casual, casual, mid-core and blockchain experts. Our 'Core' games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing and launching new hit games, whilst our 'Live' games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on our existing and successful games.
You will have the opportunity to be one of the first members of the first studio established with Voodoo’s full support in Madrid, and join the newly created small, passionate team focusing on creating and testing new hyper casual games prototypes. On day zero, we aim to create a team with two wonderfully talented developers and an artist and enable them to start prototyping right away to find the next big hit. When joining the Studio and Voodoo, you will have a strong impact on the business and a unique opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of users. You will frequently engage with stakeholders from Voodoo’s ecosystem and become part of a "best-in-class" international team who are committed to contributing to the success of the studio. You will take an innovative approach to gameplay ideas and features and give them your own spin. This is a high-ownership function in an agile studio where decisions are made collaboratively in a flat management structure.
Role
With this role, you will have a strong impact on the company by contributing daily to important decisions with a multidisciplinary team of passionate people that constantly seek success. Flesh out the details of a game's design, oversee its testing, and revise the game in response to player feedback. With your creativity and your teamwork, we will create the next hit game and entertain millions of people.
- Create intuitive mobile games in a very fast-paced iterative process
- Develop an efficient pipeline, rapidly create prototypes (<1 week), and test them with the artist you’re paired with
- Generate new ideas for” game features
- Versatility to work on all aspects of the game (e.g. gameplay, features, menus, platform specifics)
- Know when to persevere and when to pivot to new ideas
- Being humble and motivated enough to kill prototypes
- Ability to deconstruct and analyze mobile games mechanics
- Write robust code to be used by millions of users
Profile
- At least 2 to 3 years of experience as a Unity game developer in hyper-casual
- Ability to create games from scratch and iterate with Unity
- Interested in hyper-casual and passionate about finding trends, gameplay, and game mechanics
- Knowledge about game design including game mechanics, level design, and UI/UX
- Experience with balancing game systems (e.g. difficulty, reward, monetization)
- Experience in working with a publisher
- Ability to accept failure as a part of the process and refine wisely
- Creative and hacker mindset with a strong sense of ownership
- Good sense of gameplay experience for a mass audience and special attention to details
- Able to work quickly and efficiently
- A good level of English (both writing and speaking)
Benefits : Competitive package, strong variable incentive based on game downloads & performance.
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