Games Developer; Platforms - Fully Remote

Overview

Instant Games Developer (Platforms) SOFTGAMES is looking for an Instant Games Developer to join our platform team and elevate our games with innovative new features on instant gaming platforms, delighting tens of millions of players each month. You’ll bring our games to the next generation of instant gaming platforms like Reddit, Discord, and whatever launches next, while keeping our games running smoothly on established platforms that millions of players already enjoy.

Pioneer into new territory and grow on solid foundations. You’ll own the full cycle: building, testing, and shipping features for live games. You won’t do it alone; you’ll collaborate closely with producers, artists, and fellow developers to share knowledge and push our games forward.

• Develop new Instant Games and adapt existing titles for new platforms, reaching millions of players
• Architect solutions that let our games run across multiple platforms from a shared codebase
• Integrate platform SDKs and navigate platform-specific requirements and certification processes
• Maintain and optimize live games, improving performance, reducing load times and bandwidth usage
• Write robust, maintainable code and contribute to shared libraries
• Estimate task complexity and write technical specifications
• Share knowledge and support fellow developers

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Shipped and maintained games, preferably on multiple platforms
• Strong knowledge of PixiJS and Type Script
• Proficient in optimizing and deep profiling of browser applications
• Experience with build systems (e.g. Vite or Webpack)
• Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable and tested code
• Comfortable diving into legacy codebases and making them better
• Experience with automated testing tools and CI/CD pipelines is helpful
• You enjoy games, playing them, making them, talking about them

• Experience integrating third-party platform SDKs
• Familiarity with cross-platform architecture patterns
• Experience with Unity WebGL builds and/or Unity mobile projects
• Open-minded, humble, and always curious to learn

• Remote first:
  Work fully remote from wherever you are, or join us in our modern Berlin office. You decide.
• Flexible working hours:
  Structure your day to your needs. No crunch, no overtime.
• Generous vacation:
  No matter where you're based.
• Home office budget:
  Get set up for productivity at home, plus a monthly allowance for electricity and internet.
• Equipment:
  Choose between a Mac Book Pro or Lenovo laptop.
• Meal allowance:
  Monthly budget for your lunches.
• Learning budget:
  Training opportunities to strengthen your skills or learn something new.
• Offsite retreats:
  Twice a year the entire company gets together to learn, share ideas, and celebrate. Our offsites are kind of legendary.
• Swag:
  Hoodies, bags, mugs, the works.

At SOFTGAMES, we value a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone's ideas are heard and valued. Join us and help bring instant games to millions of players on mobile and desktop. If this sounds like your kind of challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

SOFTGAMES is the leading instant gaming company. We develop casual, truly social games that can be played instantly across all devices. Our hypersocial blockbuster game “Bubble Shooter Pro” became a global top grossing game on Facebook and is played by millions of people around the world every day. We partner closely with Facebook, Samsung and more to craft the next generation of instant games that billions of people can play together.

SOFTGAMES is a remote first company and the home of around 100 people from all over the world. We believe in proactive, independent teams with the freedom to take initiative, challenge the status quo, and with the mission to build everlasting casual games for every platform.

At SOFTGAMES, we believe that different perspectives and background in our teams contribute to the quality of our work. We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion / worldview, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

Have we caught your interest? Then we look forward to your detailed application together with your salary expectations and earliest possible start date.