The Role Description

The Company is seeking a passionate and experienced Principal Games Engineer to elevate its games catalog as well as its games platform. In this role, you will develop new games for the catalog, as well as extend the game platform to allow other developers to build their own games more easily. You will work closely with both the client and server teams, creating an efficient, high-performance game client on mobile devices but also a highly optimized server component to handle our scale of users. A high-level approach is paramount: not only building individual games but constructing frameworks to support broad categories of games: making it easy for anybody to write a card game or a grid-based board game.

This role is a full-time position, the Company prioritizes flexibility and are open to accommodating various locations and work schedules to meet the needs of the successful candidate.

Responsibilities

• Develop new games on top of the V8-based platform
• Create comprehensive frameworks, libraries, and tools for developing entire categories of games
• Extend the internal game libraries and tools to make the entire platform easier to use
• Extend and maintain the current games catalog itself

Requirements

• Demonstrated enthusiasm and a proactive attitude
• Strong dedication to craftsmanship: an individual who takes satisfaction in delivering work of exceptional quality, correctness and polish.
• Ability to thrive in a small team environment, prioritizing speed and efficiency over bureaucracy
• Proficient in GL and shader programming
• Experience with developing game platforms
• A track record of delivering games to end users

Nice to Haves

• Experience in web-based game development
• Proficiency in developing with Typescript.