Senior Mobile Engineer for Live Games (Obj-C/Cocos)

UserWise Services

United States

Remote

USD 100,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Market competitive USD salaries
Paid Time Off
Performance Bonus
Annual Performance Reviews

Job summary

UserWise Services is seeking engineers to improve and scale a live mobile game built with Objective-C and Cocos. You will help evolve the product for growth, making smart technical decisions and leveraging AI-assisted workflows to accelerate development.

The role focuses on maintaining a legacy codebase, optimizing performance, and shipping improvements in a live-service environment with close collaboration across product, design, and analytics.

Qualifications

  • Experience with Objective-C and iOS development.
  • Hands-on experience with Cocos (Cocos2d-x or similar).
  • Experience in live mobile games or shipped apps.
  • Ability to navigate and improve legacy codebases.
  • Strong performance optimization knowledge for CPU, memory, rendering.
  • Pragmatic mindset balancing refactor and shipping.
  • Comfortable using AI tools in workflow.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and evolve legacy Objective-C + Cocos codebase.
  • Optimize performance, memory usage, and runtime behavior on mobile.
  • Refactor and modernize systems without disrupting live operations.
  • Ship features and improvements in a live-service environment.
  • Use AI-assisted workflows to speed development, debugging, and testing.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and analytics to drive impact.
  • Identify quick wins vs. deep tech improvements and prioritize.

Skills

Objective-C
iOS development
Cocos (Cocos2d-x)
Live mobile games
Legacy codebase improvement
Performance optimization
Refactor vs ship mindset
AI tools in workflow

Tools

Cocos2d-x
AI-assisted tools (Copilot, ChatGPT)

Job description

UserWise Services is seeking engineers to improve and scale a live mobile game built with Objective-C and Cocos. You will help evolve the product for growth, making smart technical decisions and leveraging AI-assisted workflows to accelerate development.

The role focuses on maintaining a legacy codebase, optimizing performance, and shipping improvements in a live-service environment with close collaboration across product, design, and analytics.

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