Senior Game Developer

April 13

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CoolGames

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CoolGames is a pioneering company in the field of cloud gaming, dedicated to reshaping the mobile gaming experience. By leveraging cloud technology, CoolGames allows players to enjoy HTML5 games instantly without the need for downloads, making it easy to play and share games across social media, messenger platforms, and websites. CoolGames is committed to developing and distributing high-quality cloud-based HTML5 games for a global audience. Its collaborations with notable entities like Netflix, Hasbro, and Facebook showcase its leadership in casual and mobile gaming platforms. With successful titles like MONOPOLY Sudoku and Angry Birds on Facebook Messenger, CoolGames continues to be at the forefront of instant gaming experiences.

Mobile Browser-based Social & Casual Games • Freemium, Virtual Currency and Micro Transactions • HTML5 for Mobile • White Label Mobile Gaming Destinations / Portals

51 - 200 employees

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Are you an ambitious senior game developer with a passion for creating engaging experiences? • Do you want your work to reach millions of players worldwide? • Join our team as a freelancer and apply today. • Collaborate with a multinational team of developers and contribute to creating captivating casual gaming experiences for a global audience. • About the Role • You will be part of a multidisciplinary development team collaborating with game designers, game artists, quality assurance engineers, and fellow game developers. • You work on developing new titles, evolving existing games, as well as contributing to the maintenance and evolving our internal tooling. • You are adept at managing your time and productivity with the goal to deliver robust code while meeting established deadlines. • Next to working on features for our games your responsibilities include optimisation, debugging, fixing bugs, performing code reviews, reviewing requirements, working on platform compatibility and ensuring our games remain stable and performant.

🎯 Requirements

• About you • You are proactive and thrive on taking ownership and responsibility. • You write clean, readable and maintainable code. • Sharing your skills and experience with the team is something you have consistently been praised for. • You are open to feedback and eager to learn. • You embrace collaboration and have a ”you can count on me” attitude. • You flourish in an environment where teamwork and communication are important. • The right candidate meets most of the following requirements: • At least 5 years of experience programming professionally; • Solid knowledge of development best practices; • Knows how to strike a balance between speed and quality; • Estimations are consistently on point • Proactively communicates and mitigates technical risk; • Excellent at contributing to technical design & technical decision making; • Understands the commercial reality of casual games; • Experience with Agile/Scrum development practices; • Experience with version control tools like git; • Experience with web game tech (e.g. PIXI/Phaser/Three.js); • Experience with HTML5 games, Typescript and JavaScript is a plus;

🏖️ Benefits

• About CoolGames • Founded in 2010, CoolGames is a leading web-game-specialized studio based in the historic center of Amsterdam developing high-quality casual games. • Games distribution via new platforms, beyond the traditional app-stores, is growing steadily. • Players can now instantly start a game from within Facebook, Discord, Netflix and many other ‘Big Tech’ game channels. • We have a great relationship and close collaboration with all of them. • In this changing landscape, where Apple and Google are no longer the sole destinations for casual gamers, CoolGames is successfully publishing high-quality web games that are played by millions every month. • For our studio, we have an ambitious roadmap to start the development of new game projects to further expand our portfolio for the years ahead. • Working for CoolGames • We are a company which believes it’s important to constantly improve and innovate as we strive to be the best. • We work in an informal environment with enthusiastic and smart individuals from all over the world to design and create great games. • We have a hybrid work schedule where we strike a balance between face to face collaboration and efficient remote work.