The posting
Our Mission:
To capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.
About Us:
PlayQ is a rapidly growing entertainment and technology company that recognizes quality is king as we deliver unforgettable mobile game experiences to a global audience. Our games engage millions of users daily, surprising them with creativity, beauty and fun!
Our portfolio includes hit titles like Treasure Party, which combines match-3 puzzle gameplay with a board game adventure for a vibrant treasure-hunting experience, and Sort Wizard, a fresh take on sorting puzzle mechanics that challenges and delights players. Both games are quickly building strong followings in their genres, offering fun, rewarding journeys for puzzle lovers and adventurers alike.
Our team is driven, playful and deeply committed to excellence and innovation. We work together to craft clever, visually stunning, and memorable experiences. PlayQ's environment values initiative, collaboration, and individual leadership to ensure that our mission is fulfilled.
Who You Are:
- Proactive Achiever You consistently take the initiative to drive business results, supported by sound reasoning and detailed execution plans.
- Growth Driver You champion company-wide success by relentlessly focusing on achieving results, understanding how your work impacts the entire organization, and pushing to make it 10% better every time. You continuously level yourself up and drive the business forward.
- Solution Seeker Fueled by curiosity, you explore various ways to solve a problem. Every hard problem is an opportunity in disguise.
- Team Builder You actively foster strong dynamics within and between teams, contributing to our collective success.
- Resilient Leader You consistently approach your work with resilience and a steadfast passion for achievement of our goals despite challenges or setbacks.
- Data-Driven Creator You leverage data to back intuition. Empirical creativity is your go-to. Imagination led, data validated.
Why you'll want to come to work:
We’re looking for a Senior C#/Unity Engineer to help build and shape our newest mobile game from the ground up. This is a high-impact role where you’ll have direct ownership over core game systems, features, performance, and technical decisions that will influence how the game is built, optimized, and shipped.
Working closely with the CTO, Product, and a small, high-caliber team, you’ll have the opportunity to solve meaningful technical challenges, influence the engineering foundation of the game, and see your work directly impact the player experience. We move quickly, embrace change, and believe great engineers should have the autonomy to identify problems, make decisions, and drive solutions through to completion.
This is an opportunity for a hands-on engineer who enjoys building, solving complex problems, and working in an environment where there’s plenty of room to make an impact. We also embrace AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and similar technologies to accelerate development, research, debugging, and problem-solving.
Your Responsibilities:
- Drive Technical Development: Own the development of core game systems and features, from technical design through implementation and delivery, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the overall architecture.
- Own Engineering Outcomes: Take ownership of technical areas and features end-to-end, proactively identifying what needs to be done, making informed technical decisions, and driving execution without requiring constant direction.
- Optimize the Player Experience: Profile, troubleshoot, and optimize game performance, stability, memory usage, and responsiveness across a wide range of mobile devices, ensuring a smooth and high-quality player experience.
- Build for Mobile: Develop and optimize experiences for iOS and Android, balancing technical constraints, device fragmentation, performance, and platform-specific requirements to deliver a reliable mobile product.
- Solve & Improve: Identify technical bottlenecks, investigate complex problems, and implement practical solutions that continuously improve the quality, performance, and scalability of the game.
- Accelerate with AI: Leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to improve development velocity across coding, debugging, research, documentation, and problem-solving, while maintaining strong engineering judgment and quality standards.
- Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with the CTO, Product, and other disciplines to translate product goals and player needs into effective technical solutions and help shape decisions across the game.
- Elevate Engineering Quality: Establish and maintain clean, maintainable code and contribute to engineering practices, architecture, and processes that enable the team to move quickly without sacrificing quality or long-term scalability.
- Enable the Team: Share knowledge, contribute to code reviews, and mentor other engineers when appropriate, helping build strong technical practices and a collaborative engineering culture.
- Adapt & Deliver: Navigate evolving priorities and requirements while maintaining execution momentum and ensuring high-quality features and releases are delivered on time.
What you’ll bring to the team:
- Experience: 6+ years of professional game development experience, including hands-on experience building and shipping mobile games.
- C# & Unity: Strong expertise in Unity3D and C#, with a deep understanding of game development patterns, architecture, and engineering best practices.
- Mobile Expertise: Proven experience developing and optimizing Unity games for iOS and Android, with a strong understanding of mobile-specific technical and performance considerations.
- Performance: Strong experience profiling and optimizing mobile game performance, with the ability to identify bottlenecks and make informed technical trade-offs.
- Ownership & Autonomy: A strong sense of ownership and the ability to take a problem from identification through solution and delivery without needing constant direction.
- Problem-Solving: A practical, analytical approach to technical challenges, with the curiosity and initiative to investigate problems, identify root causes, and find effective solutions.
- Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-changing environment where priorities and requirements evolve, and able to make progress even when not everything is perfectly defined upfront.
- AI Proficiency: Comfortable using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or similar technologies as part of your everyday development workflow.
- Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and cross-functional partners in English.
Bonus Points:
- Industry Experience: Prior experience in mobile gaming, especially with match-3, casual, or F2P games.
- Full Product Lifecycle: Experience taking a mobile game from development through launch and supporting it through live development.
- Technical Breadth: Experience with additional programming languages, technologies, or game development frameworks.
- Small-Team Experience: Experience working in a small, fast-moving, or startup-like environment where engineers have significant ownership and influence over technical decisions.
Working at PlayQ:
- Remote Work Environment. This position offers the flexibility to work remotely. You’ll closely collaborate with our Ukrainian team and global teammates worldwide. Our flexible approach, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!
- Comprehensive medical & dental insurance
- Flexible time off
- Virtual team-building activities
- Conferences and continued learning
- Innovative and dynamic work environment
- Tremendous growth & career advancement opportunities
- Help build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn’t love games?
At PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.
If your skillset aligns with the requirements of this role, we will contact you through our official Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse) or company email address (@playq.net). If you receive communication from a different domain, this communication is not from a legitimate representative of PlayQ.
