Lead Game Developer – New Studio – Mobile Games – London

Our client is a new start- up technology company with the mission to build the best mobile games for each

individual user with help of latest design trends and technology. Experimentation, creativity and data are at the core of what they do.

They are a well-funded seed stage company founded by mobile industry veterans that have

worked together for the past 6 years and exited their previous company.

They are looking for a Lead Game Developer to join their growing team with the mission to

Ship their first games and shape the game development team from scratch together with

the founders.

You will bring end-to-end game development experience and proven methods to solidify

the foundation of their game development approach produce code and be a source of

knowledge related to game development. You will work directly with the CTO, as well as

growth, game design, art teams to produce games but also with the data platform

engineers as a key stakeholder to help shape the features needed to optimize game play

at scale.

They are looking for a game development expert that is ready for a new challenge that

includes shaping principles of a brand-new game development team and taking on direct

executional responsibility in the hiring and onboarding of people. People who like learning

new things, expanding your horizon whilst making an impact with their passion of building

great games.

DUTIES AND RESPNSIBILITIES:

• Conception and development of mobile games, based on C# and Unity3D
• Continuous refinement and optimization of existing mobile apps
• Conception of APIs, tools, and workflows to optimize the interdisciplinary work
• Providing input to improve game design
• Produce quality, readable, and well-tested code
• Research, suggest and implement the best technologies and solutions
• Hire, onboard and manage new game developers as we expand our team

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive experience of development experience on Unity3D platform (Unity framework 5.x or higher)
• Excellent in fundamentals of scripting, textures, animation, GUI, and user data management on mobile client devices
• Experience in graphics and physics programming on Unity platform both in 2D and 3D
• Familiar with iOS and Android development platforms and corresponding IDEs Literacy of Objective-C and Java
• Previously used/implemented third-party APIs/SDKs and consumed Rest APIs in a mobile client
• A portfolio of mobile games already built and published as lead developer
• Experience with the free-to-play model, casual games

Tagged as: Senior/Lead Programmer