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We create games formobile, PC, and consoles, focusing on product quality and player experience.\n The Shadow Fight series and Vector have been downloaded over1 billion times, and we continue to grow and support these franchises. At the same time, we're building new titles: SPINE andFight Me.\n We are currently looking for a Lead Technical Level Designer to join the technical level design team of our flagship project - Spine.\n SPINE is made with Unreal Engine 5 and centered around cinematic gun-fu shootouts. It's a third-person beat'em'up with a full set of PC gaming features, including a deep storyline, a unique setting, cutscenes, intriguing enemies, memorable bosses, character progression, and, most importantly, breathtaking battles with a wide array of firearms.\n Responsibilities:\nLead a team of technical level designers: plan workload, assign tasks, and evaluate the quality of their work.\nHelp people grow through regular one-to-ones and feedback, development plans, and mentorship within the team.\nBuild a smooth pipeline with other departments: with level artists, level designers, and narrative designers at every stage of level production, and with programmers on tool development.\nIdentify the root causes of recurring production problems and initiate the development of missing tools.\nTranslate designers' needs into technical requirements and work with programmers to bring them to a solution.\nKeep documentation up to date and help the team learn the tools.\nOversee the technical quality of levels: collisions, streaming, event script setup, and so on.\n What we are looking for:\n3+ years of experience in game level production, including hands-on experience with the technical side.\nExperience leading a team of 3 or more people, or mentoring experience.\nExperience independently implementing mechanics and systems for levels in Blueprints or C++ (experience in other programming languages is acceptable).\nExperience working with UE5 level production tools: Level Streaming and World Partition (Data Layers, HLOD, One File Per Actor), Level Instances, Packed Level Actors, and so on.\nUnderstanding of level design fundamentals.\n Fluent communication in Russian is required.\n Would be a plus:\n A shipped PC or console project.\nExperience developing editor tools: Editor Utility Widgets, Python in UE, C++.\nExperience profiling and optimizing levels for consoles.\n Experience working on third-person action games.\n We offer:\nA great team with a friendly and informal work environment (we share colleagues' interests, play video games together, and organize internal game jams)\nSupport of professional development, participation in specialized conferences and educational events\nRemote work from all over the world\nWorking hours from 10 AM to 7 PM (GMT+3) with possibility of adjustment\nCompetitive salary (depending on professional qualifications)\n If you don’t hear from us within 7-10 days, it means we won’t be moving forward with your application this time. 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