Senior Game Developer - Small Giant Games

Engineering · Canada

Job description

Small Giant is one of the top-performing mobile gaming companies in the world.

We believe small, skilled, and independent teams can accomplish gigantic things. We know the best
teams are created by hiring the best individuals and by trusting these individuals with ownership and
responsibility for the work they do. Transparency, low hierarchy, and a good work-life balance are not just buzzwords for us but critical parts of our culture. We focus on the essentials while constantly looking to learn more and improve our products, our processes, and how we work together as a company.

We are looking for more professionals to join our ranks. You will be participating in the development of our flagship game, Empires & Puzzles. Your main focus will be on the client-side, developing awesome new features for the game. You'll also get the chance to work on the full stack. Some of the tools we use include Unity, C#, Scala, MongoDB and AWS.


Main responsibilities:

  • Independently developing new features and content for our live games
  • Collaborating with game designers, artists and QA specialists of the development team
  • Writing clean code and performing code reviews for your peers
  • Helping with solving critical issues in live games
  • We hope you have at least the following qualities:
  • Experience in developing software with Java or C#
  • A razor sharp mind and the ability to learn new things extremely quickly
  • A positive “can-do” attitude
  • Passion for games

Here are some other things that would make you our ideal candidate:

  • A long history of programming, either as a hobby or as a professional
  • Experience in developing with Unity
  • Good teamwork and communication skills
  • Interest in game design
  • Enthusiasm for free-to-play mobile games

We offer you:

  • Exciting, fun - and highly successful - projects to work on.
  • Extremely talented and helpful colleagues.
  • Lots of power and responsibility.
  • Office conveniently located in downtown Helsinki and flexible remote working possibilities.
  • Competitive salary and other benefits.

Apply now!

We are constantly on the lookout for top talent to join our team. Whether you have years of experience, or
you’re enthusiastic, smart, and quick to learn – we’d love to hear from you!

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