Principal Game Engineer
SYBO Games, Denmark
Job Description
SYBO is growing. We’re releasing new games, building on the massive success of Subway Surfers as the most downloaded game of all time (3 billion downloads and counting!) and continuing to excite and surprise the most important people in the world: Our players!
We’re looking for a talented Principal (Feature) Game Engineer to join our Game Dev team. The magnitude of Subway Surfers requires a special attention to its health and to users' experience. As part of our growing we are constantly adding new features and improvements to our game to continue delivering the quality our users are looking for.
Responsibilities
- In your first month: You’ll get an understanding of the game’s Feature development loop and workflow . A long process of understanding the project will start with multiple talks while You work together with one of the engineers by fixing bugs and making small features allowing you to start knowing the project.
- In your first 3 months: You’ll be up and running by now, at this point in time you should have been part of a lot of different parts of the project, having delivered multiple fixes and features. You should have a good understanding of the processes allowing you to start proposing new improvements. You should start being able to check the KPIs we use for validating how stable the features we release are in production.
- In your first 12 months: You are a vital part of the team. You have become one of the tech owners and you have implemented and improved features, tech and tooling. At this point in time you should be able to diagnose live issues and measure the health of the game. You will also be a role model, and will help set the direction for best practices within your field, and will be a crucial voice in making decisions in regards to the game's future
Requirements
- Game development experience - you should have worked on LIVE games before.
- Capability of understanding crash logs, stack traces and memory dumps with the goal of analyzing live issues.
- Proficiency developing new features, developing tools and working with tech debt.
- Experience with Unity or any other engine.
Bonus Points
- Native/Platform development knowledge
About SYBO
We're SYBO, a mobile games studio based in Copenhagen, and makers of the most downloaded mobile game of all time, Subway Surfers, with over 3 billion downloads and counting!
If you decide to join us you’ll be joining a world-class studio in the heart of Copenhagen with the possibility to do the most interesting, engaging and creative work of your life among like-minded colleagues from around the world (right now we have over 25 different nationalities). We are a playful and creative team proudly making and publishing multiple games!
We love to give you the tools you need to do the best work you can, you’ll get an awesome buffet lunch as well as snacks, fruit and drinks for our Friday Bar, as much merch as your heart desires and a fun and creative culture where everybody is heard.
Not in Copenhagen? Not a problem! We have in-house specialists to help you to relocate and feel at home in Copenhagen!