Staff Software Engineer

Were looking for a hardworking and passionate Staff Software Engineer to join Wildlifes Live Games Tech Team in São Paulo.

Wildlifes Live Games Tech Team operates at a scale that few engineers get to experience: millions of daily active players systems running 24/7 and technical decisions that shape whats possible for the entire product. As a Staff Software Engineer youll be one of the most influential technical voices in one of our largest live games reporting directly to the Technical Director.

This isnt an architecture-from-a-distance role. Youll be hands-on in the hardest problems from system architecture and gameplay infrastructure to metagame logic and game economy on both the mobile app and the server. Simultaneously youll be raising the technical ceiling for every engineer on the team. Your leverage isnt through authority. Its through judgment technical excellence and the decisions you help other people make better.

You wont have direct reports. What you will have is full ownership of the hardest technical challenges the autonomy to drive real change and the platform to shape how an entire engineering team grows. Our stack spans Unity/C# on the client Go on the backend and AWS with Kubernetes for infrastructure.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Define the software architecture for new features and systems making pragmatic trade-offs between speed quality scalability and long-term maintainability.
• Lead complex technical initiatives end-to-end: from discovery and design through implementation rollout monitoring and iteration.
• Collaborate with the Technical Director and tech leads to set technical direction and continuously raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Own and evolve the games operational health: SLIs/SLOs incident response processes and postmortem culture.
• Mentor engineers at multiple seniority levels through code reviews RFCs and architecture discussions with the explicit goal of developing the next generation of technical leaders.
• Systematically identify and eliminate inefficiencies in engineering workflows tooling and developer experience.
• Be a visible technical voice across the organization: design reviews postmortems engineering-wide initiatives and cross-team influence.
• Drive clarity on delivery: estimate efforts support roadmap and sprint planning and provide clear transparency on status and risks to key stakeholders.

WHAT YOULL NEED

• Proven track record of leading complex technical projects spanning multiple teams or systems from scoping to post-launch iteration.
• Deep understanding of systems at scale: distributed systems performance trade-offs and operational complexity in production.
• Experience in mobile software development or equivalent high-traffic high-stakes product environments.
• Demonstrated ability to develop senior engineers and drive engineering culture across a team.
• Excellent communication: you can go deep with engineers and speak impact with technical directors and product leadership.
• Working proficiency in English.

NICE TO HAVE

• Hands-on experience with Unity/C# for mobile development and Go for backend services.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes at scale.
• Background in live game operations: observability incident response and release management at scale.

MORE ABOUT YOU

You dont need a title to lead. Youve built technical authority the only way that lasts by being consistently right consistently helpful and consistently making the people around you better. You hold the big picture without losing the details. You know when to architect and when to just fix it. You see the systemic problem before anyone names it and youre already drafting the solution. You measure your own success not by what you built but by what the team around you became capable of building.

ABOUT WILDLIFE

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. Today we have offices in Brazil Finland and the United States. Here we create and maintain games that will excite intrigue and engage our players for years to come!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

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.