Storm8 is a fully remote working studio based in North America bringing exciting mobile games to the market. Since its founding in 2009 Storm8 has published more than 45 games across a variety of genres.
For our game development team we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to kick making creative ideas reality! You will be working in a highly motivated and qualified team to bring new and awesome content to our players. Become part of this team! Apply now! Candidates must be located in Canada to be considered.
About the role
What Youll Do:
- Design and implement scalable reliable and maintainable technologies across our entire stack including database server and client code for iOS and Android platforms for both existing and new game development.
- Manage the complexities of maintaining and expanding a mature codebase including optimizing performance debugging live issues and consistently delivering new content to players on a regular schedule.
- Review feature requests to assess feasibility comprehensiveness of design and associated risks.
- Collect analyze and respond to performance data for our mobile games.
- Collaborate closely with other software engineers product teams graphics teams and game designers to define our nextgeneration games.
What Youll Need:
- Exceptionally strong coding skills; ability to write clean maintainable and bugfree code.
- Proficiency in reading and debugging code by inspection identifying edge cases inefficiencies or security issues.
- Broad understanding of game programming principles.
- Ability to learn new technologies and programming languages quickly.
- Ability to solve complex problems with simple and optimal solutions.
- Highly responsive with a collaborative and supportive attitude towards team members.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills with artists designers and other engineers.
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related quantitative field
Nice to Have but Not Necessary:
- Experience creating or working on a liveservice title.
- Experience in iOS Android or social gaming.
- Experience with the Unity platform.
- Experience with Git AWS and database systems such as MySQL.
- Regular player of mobile games with insights into what makes them successful.
- Fluency with C# Golang and Python
Who we are
Storm8 is part of Stillfront. Stillfront is a global gaming company with 1400 employees. We develop a wide range of digital games that attract over 50 million players each month. From wellestablished franchises like Supremacy Big Farm and BitLife to niche games we span many different genres including strategy simulation RPG and action and casual and mashup games.
We believe gaming can be a force for good. And we want to create a gaming universe that is digital affordable equal and sustainable. So we focus on developing games that are all about having a rewarding hobby a great social experience or a strategic challenge.
Our HQ is in Stockholm Sweden but our game development is done by teams and studios all over the world. Our main markets are the US Japan MENA Germany and the UK. Were proud that our company shares are listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm.