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As a Principal Game Developer, you will play a key role in the long-term success of Pocket Champs - you will be a technical cornerstone of our game teams - bringing your deep technical expertise to evolve the game’s architecture, implement high-quality features, and ensure outstanding performance across devices. You'll collaborate closely with developers, designers, and artists to continuously elevate the gameplay experience, while also helping to define the technical direction of the project as it scales. Your contributions will directly impact millions of players worldwide.
Job Responsibility:
Design and implement robust, scalable, and performant gameplay systems and architectures
Define and maintain high coding standards, architecture patterns, and best practices
Lead features development, and the tech team assigned, from pre-production, to architecture, development, and QA
Help ensure a clean, maintainable, and modular codebase as the game team and scope grow
Lead technical investigations and experimentation to propose new features
Drive technical decisions and propose architectural improvements that support the game’s long-term vision
Be a team player, mentor your peers to help them grow, through code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance
Work closely with designers, artists, and other developers to create cohesive and engaging game experiences
Identify and evaluate new tools, technologies, and pipelines that can improve development speed and game quality
Requirements:
10+ years of experience in game development
Mastery in Unity in a production environment: Addressables, Remote Settings, CDN, Online/Social features
Deep understanding of mobile gaming, game mechanics, gameplay, UI, and UX
Experience in game programming patterns (MVC, State Machine, Command, …), and creating generic modules
Advanced level of English
Previous experience working on a mobile game that scaled
Flexible, autonomous, proactive, and accountable for their tasks
Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with a collaborative approach