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Our games engage millions of users daily, surprising them with creativity, beauty and fun!\nOur portfolio includes hit titles like Treasure Party, which combines match-3 puzzle gameplay with a board game adventure for a vibrant treasure-hunting experience, and Sort Wizard, a fresh take on sorting puzzle mechanics that challenges and delights players. Both games are quickly building strong followings in their genres, offering fun, rewarding journeys for puzzle lovers and adventurers alike.\nOur team is driven, playful and deeply committed to excellence and innovation. We work together to craft clever, visually stunning, and memorable experiences. PlayQ's environment values initiative, collaboration, and individual leadership to ensure that our mission is fulfilled.\nWho You Are:\nProactive Achiever You consistently take the initiative to drive business results, supported by sound reasoning and detailed execution plans.\nGrowth Driver You champion company-wide success by relentlessly focusing on achieving results, understanding how your work impacts the entire organization, and pushing to make it 10% better every time. You continuously level yourself up and drive the business forward.\nSolution Seeker Fueled by curiosity, you explore various ways to solve a problem. Every hard problem is an opportunity in disguise. \nTeam Builder You actively foster strong dynamics within and between teams, contributing to our collective success.\nResilient Leader You consistently approach your work with resilience and a steadfast passion for achievement of our goals despite challenges or setbacks.\nData-Driven Creator You leverage data to back intuition. Empirical creativity is your go-to. Imagination led, data validated.\nWhy you'll want to come to work:\nWe’re looking for a Senior C#/Unity Engineer to help build and shape our newest mobile game from the ground up. This is a high-impact role where you’ll have direct ownership over core game systems, features, performance, and technical decisions that will influence how the game is built, optimized, and shipped.\nWorking closely with the CTO, Product, and a small, high-caliber team, you’ll have the opportunity to solve meaningful technical challenges, influence the engineering foundation of the game, and see your work directly impact the player experience. We move quickly, embrace change, and believe great engineers should have the autonomy to identify problems, make decisions, and drive solutions through to completion.\nThis is an opportunity for a hands-on engineer who enjoys building, solving complex problems, and working in an environment where there’s plenty of room to make an impact. We also embrace AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and similar technologies to accelerate development, research, debugging, and problem-solving.\nYour Responsibilities:\nDrive Technical Development: Own the development of core game systems and features, from technical design through implementation and delivery, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the overall architecture.\nOwn Engineering Outcomes: Take ownership of technical areas and features end-to-end, proactively identifying what needs to be done, making informed technical decisions, and driving execution without requiring constant direction.\nOptimize the Player Experience: Profile, troubleshoot, and optimize game performance, stability, memory usage, and responsiveness across a wide range of mobile devices, ensuring a smooth and high-quality player experience.\nBuild for Mobile: Develop and optimize experiences for iOS and Android, balancing technical constraints, device fragmentation, performance, and platform-specific requirements to deliver a reliable mobile product.\nSolve & Improve: Identify technical bottlenecks, investigate complex problems, and implement practical solutions that continuously improve the quality, performance, and scalability of the game.\nAccelerate with AI: Leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to improve development velocity across coding, debugging, research, documentation, and problem-solving, while maintaining strong engineering judgment and quality standards.\nPartner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with the CTO, Product, and other disciplines to translate product goals and player needs into effective technical solutions and help shape decisions across the game.\nElevate Engineering Quality: Establish and maintain clean, maintainable code and contribute to engineering practices, architecture, and processes that enable the team to move quickly without sacrificing quality or long-term scalability.\nEnable the Team: Share knowledge, contribute to code reviews, and mentor other engineers when appropriate, helping build strong technical practices and a collaborative engineering culture.\nAdapt & Deliver: Navigate evolving priorities and requirements while maintaining execution momentum and ensuring high-quality features and releases are delivered on time.\nWhat you’ll bring to the team:\nExperience: 6+ years of professional game development experience, including hands-on experience building and shipping mobile games.\nC# & Unity: Strong expertise in Unity3D and C#, with a deep understanding of game development patterns, architecture, and engineering best practices.\nMobile Expertise: Proven experience developing and optimizing Unity games for iOS and Android, with a strong understanding of mobile-specific technical and performance considerations.\nPerformance: Strong experience profiling and optimizing mobile game performance, with the ability to identify bottlenecks and make informed technical trade-offs.\nOwnership & Autonomy: A strong sense of ownership and the ability to take a problem from identification through solution and delivery without needing constant direction.\nProblem-Solving: A practical, analytical approach to technical challenges, with the curiosity and initiative to investigate problems, identify root causes, and find effective solutions.\nAdaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-changing environment where priorities and requirements evolve, and able to make progress even when not everything is perfectly defined upfront.\nAI Proficiency: Comfortable using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or similar technologies as part of your everyday development workflow.\nCommunication & Collaboration: Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and cross-functional partners in English.\nBonus Points:\nIndustry Experience: Prior experience in mobile gaming, especially with match-3, casual, or F2P games.\nFull Product Lifecycle: Experience taking a mobile game from development through launch and supporting it through live development.\nTechnical Breadth: Experience with additional programming languages, technologies, or game development frameworks.\nSmall-Team Experience: Experience working in a small, fast-moving, or startup-like environment where engineers have significant ownership and influence over technical decisions.\nWorking at PlayQ:\nRemote Work Environment.This position offers the flexibility to work remotely. You’ll closely collaborate with our Ukrainian team and global teammates worldwide. Our flexible approach, internal comms, and tech stack promote collaboration, communication, and camaraderie!\nComprehensive medical & dental insurance\nFlexible time off\nVirtual team-building activities\nConferences and continued learning\nInnovative and dynamic work environment\nTremendous growth & career advancement opportunities\nHelp build and support awesome GAMES. For a living! Who doesn’t love games?\nAt PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.\nIf your skillset aligns with the requirements of this role, we will contact you through our official Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse) or company email address (@playq.net). 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