Full-Stack Mobile Game Engineer – Live Ops & Features

A Thinking Ape

United States

Remote

USD 110,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

A Thinking Ape (ATA) is seeking a tech generalist full-stack engineer to build features for our mobile games, spanning client and server, and to own end-to-end implementations in live operation.

You will collaborate across design, implementation, playtests and metrics, applying object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms, and communicating clearly in code and writing within a small, autonomous team.

Qualifications

  • Experience delivering end-to-end features across client and server.
  • Strong understanding of OO design, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Clear written and code communication; interest in mobile games.

Responsibilities

  • Implement features for live operation across client and server.
  • Build full features from front-end to back-end.
  • Contribute to design, playtests, and metrics analysis.

Skills

Full-stack dev
Client-server
OO design

Job description

A Thinking Ape (ATA) is seeking a tech generalist full-stack engineer to build features for our mobile games, spanning client and server, and to own end-to-end implementations in live operation.

You will collaborate across design, implementation, playtests and metrics, applying object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms, and communicating clearly in code and writing within a small, autonomous team.

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