Voodoo is a Tech company that creates and publishes hyper-casual and casual mobile games for a wide audience. It is the worldwide leader in the mobile game market through snackable, innovative, and creative content combining data and new technologies.
The company raised $200M in 2018. More recently, Tencent has become a minority stakeholder in Voodoo, with a role in framing our strategy to dominate the Asia Pacific region.
#1 worldwide in mobile game downloads, and regularly at the top of the App Store rankings, our games have about 300 million monthly active users and more than 5 billion downloads since our creation. Voodoo is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having multiplied its turnover by 5 over the past few years.
With more than 400 employees around the world, we would love you to apply to join an ambitious, innovative and international company!
Voodoo recognizes the talent pool in Romania’s mobile gaming industry and is ready to back the creation of Digital Candy: a hyper-casual game studio in the country’s capital city.
What is the culture we’re trying to build?
We recruit passionate and creative profiles, who combine data and experience to disrupt the mobile market. Driven by a build-measure-learn culture, we welcome wonderfully talented people who love to learn, can adapt quickly and are always looking to challenge themselves.
We fail fast and we fail forward: we experiment fearlessly, retain any useful learning from every ideas we test, and use those insights to improve our experiments.
Our goal is to make hit games and in order to do so, we foster excellence, both individual and at a team level. This means solving problems by breaking the rules, prototyping rapidly, testing every assumption, and learning from data. We adopt a growth mindset, learn new things every day, and help each other succeed.
We don’t let egos get in the way of our team’s performance. We’re not afraid to kill ideas and we don’t linger on pivot/persevere decisions when the data shows we should pivot.
We work smart, not hard. We value our team and their personal lives so our focus is on output, not the hours put in. Together, we shape an environment that allows us to do our best work, one that we look forward to come into every day.
We strive to make our newest games even more fun, engaging, long-lasting, and entertaining!
Pair that with top-of-the-line A/B testing capabilities and you've got yourself a great environment for learning and developing Casual and Hyper Casual games.
Role
You will be one of our first employees in Romania, as part of Digital Candy, the first Voodoo studio in Romania. The studio is located in Bucharest, where a small team is currently being recruited. We aim to create 2 magical pairs of developer + artist and enable them to start prototyping right away to find the next hyper-casual big hit.
We are looking for Unity developers who:
- Are able to create simple games from scratch using Unity
- Can make their own work easier by building a good pipeline, creating reusable templates etc
- Are versatile, can adapt quickly, and move fast
- Are self-aware and can accurately estimate ETA for their work
- Understand that a prototype doesn’t need to look pretty in order for us to test & validate an idea.
Once you are paired with an artist, your chemistry and ability to work together efficiently will be the deciding factor in your success. This is a role with high ownership in an agile studio where bureaucracy simply doesn’t exist. Joining our team requires everyone to leave their ego at the door, for the sake of team success.
With this role, you will have a strong impact on the company by contributing daily to our brainstorming process and to important decisions. Flesh out the details of a game's design, test out your ideas and revise the game in response to data & player feedback. Unleash your creativity so we can entertain millions of players with fresh games!
What will be your main challenges?
- Create intuitive mobile games in a very fast-paced iterative process
- Communicate well, collaborate effectively and develop an efficient pipeline for working with the artist you are paired with in order to rapidly create prototypes (<1 week) and test them
- Versatility to work on all aspects of the game (gameplay, features, menus, platform specifics etc)
- Know when to persevere and when to pivot to new ideas
What do we expect?
- You have at least 2 to 3 years of experience as a Unity game developer (xp with hyper-casual is a big plus)
- Creative and hacker mindset with a strong sense of ownership
- You have a track record working on mobile games, having released at least 2 games
- You are used to game prototyping
- You have a sense of what constitutes a fun gameplay experience for a mass audience
- You enjoy playing mobile games, especially hyper-casual
- You are passionate about finding trends, gameplay, and game mechanics
- You know when it’s time to write robust code and when a prototype requires a ‘quick & dirty' solution to test an idea
- You are able to work quickly and efficiently and you are a reliable teammate
- You command a good level of English (both writing and speaking)
Does this sound like it was written with you in mind? Excellent! Put in your application and let's discuss the possibilities!