Senior Game Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 13 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Desirable opportunity for candidates with game development expertise looking to maintain and enhance popular titles.
- Engagement with million-user mobile games
- Opportunity to implement new features and improvements
- Requires solid game development experience and problem-solving skills
- Fast-paced work environment with growing responsibilities
Pros
- Engagement with live games and direct player feedback
- Involvement in continuous feature development and improvement
- Hands-on experience with coding and game mechanics
Cons
- High pressure to meet player expectations
- Challenges associated with maintaining existing titles
- Requires quick adaptation to emergent issues
Who it's for
Mid-level to Senior • On-site in São Paulo
Good fit
- Mid to senior-level game developers
- Engineers passionate about mobile gaming
- Individuals skilled in collaboration and rapid iteration
Not recommended for
- Novice developers without experience in live game environments
- Individuals preferring non-interactive or backend roles
- Candidates needing stringent work-life balance
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
We're looking for a talented and passionate Game Engineer, to join Wildlife's Live Games Tech Team working from Sao Paulo.
As a game engineer, you will work on the maintenance of released games, with millions of daily players. You will be involved in activities required to keep the apps alive as well as implementing new features to enhance player experience.
We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business.
What you'll do- Work on live games with millions of active players.
- Implement and test business logic on games and services.
- Perform maintenance and updates to keep the game running live.
- Ship new versions to production, supervise metrics and user feedback after the release.
- Provide timely transparency of development status and risks to interested parties.
- You will help to solve the most challenging technical issues in the game, partnering with team members to solve them.
- Work in an agile environment.
- Experience developing mobile apps or games.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Working proficiency in English (all documents and some meetings are in English).
- Plus: you have published apps/games in the mobile app stores.
- Plus: experience with C++, Objective C, Java for Android, OpenGL, C#, Unity.
- Plus: experience with backend (JavaScript, Node, GoLang, and Kubernetes).
- Plus: experience being a technical reference for more junior colleagues.
- You are motivated to work on games that have millions of players.
- You feel comfortable navigating on large projects and investigating the code to understand how things work.
- You like to learn different technologies.
- You are proactive, understand overall goals, and work towards them autonomously.
- You can communicate clearly with your team.
Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Here, we create and maintain games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!
Equal OpportunityWildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.
