Freelance - Senior Game Developer - Paper.io2
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves developing and enhancing features for the mobile game Paper.io 2, focusing on core gameplay improvements, new meta features, and system refinements. You will collaborate with a small, multidisciplinary team of experts, contributing to important decisions and impacting the game's success through creativity and player feedback. Day-to-day responsibilities include implementing innovative gameplay ideas, overseeing testing, and optimizing performance to entertain millions of users.
Perks & Benefits
The position offers fully remote work within CET +/-2 hours, providing flexibility in location. Benefits include best-in-class compensation and additional perks based on your country of residence. You'll join a passionate, talented team with opportunities for career growth in a successful gaming company, working on globally renowned games with a high-impact role.
Full Job Description
About Voodoo
Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.
This position can be Paris-based, Barcelona-based, Amsterdam-based, or fully remote within CET +/-2h.
Team
Our Gaming team is made up of hybrid-casual, casual, and mid-core experts. Our 'Core' games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing, and launching new hit games, whilst our 'Live' games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on our existing and successful games.
Joining our Live games team means collaborating with gaming industry experts on globally renowned, enduring games while embracing exciting new entrepreneurial ventures. With over seven billion downloads worldwide and a portfolio of more than 10 resilient hybrid games generating more than $20m per year, we are the world's largest and most successful hybrid publisher.
You will be joining one of our Live Studios, working on Paper.io 2.
With Paper.io 2, we’re building an iconic game that players will never forget!
We're a small team of excellent people who take care of everything from ideas to testing, and we intend to grow while maintaining our high standards.
Role
We are looking for a talented Senior Game Developer with a good understanding of the casual mobile game market to help the team deliver fun, innovative, and entertaining features. You will take an innovative approach to gameplay ideas/features and give them their own spin.
Responsibilities will align with your strengths
Work on core gameplay improvements
Develop new meta features
Enhance and refine existing systems
With this role, you will have a strong impact on the company by contributing daily to important decisions with a senior, multidisciplinary team of passionate and talented people. Flesh out the details of a game's design, oversee its testing, and revise the game in response to player feedback. Thanks to your creativity and your teamwork, let’s entertain millions of people with your hit games.
Profile
5+ years of professional experience in C# and Unity
Proven track record in successful mobile game development
Exceptional expertise in a specialized area (e.g., animation, particle systems, shaders, architecture, performance optimization or networking) is a major plus
Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on optimization and performance
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
A creative, hands-on developer with a passion for quality work
Benefits
Best-in-class compensation
Other benefits according to the country you reside
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