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Genjoy, a Scopely Studio in Sevilla

Scopely is a leading mobile games company home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including Scrabble® GO, MARVEL Strike Force, Star Trek™ Fleet Command, Looney Tunes™ World of Mayhem, WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road To Survival™, YAHTZEE® With Buddies and Wheel of Fortune®: Free Play, among others. Scopely creates rewarding, immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform that personalizes gameplay at scale across one of the most diversified portfolios in the west. Recognized in Fast Company’s ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’ and #2 on Deloitte’s ‘Technology Fast 500’ as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America, Scopely has achieved more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue by creating game experiences that are an important part of people’s lives. Scopely has global operations in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin (DIGIT game studio), London and Tokyo, with additional studios in seven countries across four continents. For more information, visit scopely.com. Genjoy, a Scopely world-class mobile game development studio, is in search of a VFX Artist to join our development team. We need a strong creative contributor with an eye for detail who’s capable of creating stunning visual effects from both an artistic and technical perspective.Are you a passionate mobile games developer? If so, this is your chance to work on one of the most exciting and successful intellectual properties in the industry.

Reporting to the Lead Client Engineer, the Client Engineer will work within a cross functional team, planning and delivering technical improvements or new features following artistic and game design goals. The successful candidate has good interpersonal skills, is open about progress and issues, and hungry to learn from other members of the team.

What you will do

  • Ship production grade mobile games used by millions of gamers
  • Drive the implementation of game mechanics and system processes using Unity and C#
  • Drive the development of big and complex new features or improvements to existing ones
  • Ensure technical performance (crash rates, FPS, startup times, CPU usage, etc) is healthy throughout the development
  • Collaborate and communicate with cross-functional departments including game design, product management, marketing, etc.
  • Think about and propose solutions to the challenging problems of game development

What you will need

  • Strong knowledge of C# and/or C++, or another relevant game-programming language
  • Some experience and knowledge of game engines, in particular Unity or similar technology (like Unreal Engine)
  • Good understanding of the basics of software engineering fundamentals: design patterns, game framework architecture at scale, maintainability over time, robust API design, etc.
  • Experience with asynchronous, multi-threaded, parallel programming paradigms and other techniques to maximize UI responsiveness and do operations in the background
  • Experience and understanding around client-side testing, like unit, functional or integration testing
  • Strong knowledge of game programming fundamentals, common patterns, how systems work together and various common architectural approaches
  • Good understanding of tooling around game development, like Git, Jenkins for build automation, etc.
  • Enjoy solving complex technical problems

Bonus skills:

  • Solid understanding of mobile networking best practices: request limiting, request caching, batching, content aggregation, minification, integrating with rest and TCP/UDP services, etc.
  • Strong mobile experience (iOS and Android): ability to debug native device issues, strong understanding of hardware and platform limitations, performance metrics, etc.
  • Experience owning and driving the technical execution of complex and interdisciplinary developments

Scopely is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, family or parental status, gender identity, veteran, or disability status, or other protected status.