Senior Software Engineer | Live Games

At some point in a senior engineers career they stop asking permission to make the architectural call and start asking what the right call actually is.

Thats the level were hiring at.

Wildlifes Live Games Tech team operates with real end-to-end accountability. Youll make architectural decisions for systems serving millions of daily players not write proposals that cycle through approval layers but actually decide implement ship and own the outcomes. Youll define how the team operates in production. Youll shape the technical direction of features from their earliest conversations. And when something breaks in production youre the person who was already thinking about it.

Our stack: Unity/C# on the client Go on the backend AWS and Kubernetes for infrastructure.

• Architectural design and implementation of complex features across mobile client and backend with explicit documented trade-offs
• Full technical ownership of your domain: performance scalability long-term maintainability and accountability for the outcomes
• The full production cycle: shipping monitoring reading post-release signals iterating fast without sacrificing quality
• The teams observability practices: SLIs alerting dashboards incident response processes that hold up under pressure
• Proactive improvements to the codebase not as a separate track but as part of how you operate
• Technical development of junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews pair programming and design discussions
• Feature direction in collaboration with product and design from the very first conversation

• Deep experience as a developer with production systems at scale
• Proven background in software architecture and system design for live environments
• Experience with monitoring observability and incident response in production
• A clear track record of leading technical initiatives and raising the bar for those around you
• Working proficiency in English

• Unity/C# for mobile
• Go and Kubernetes-based backends
• AWS
• A background in games or other high-traffic consumer products

Youve shipped things that live in production and you understand what ownership really means. You make architectural decisions with confidence and you can explain the why to engineers product and leadership without losing the room. You think in systems. You dont wait for the perfect spec. And when something breaks in production youre the one people want to have been already thinking about it.

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!

Wildlife 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. Were committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.