Lead Game Developer

About the role

At Voodoo, founded in 2013, we create mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. With 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, we are the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz. This position can be Turkey-based or fully remote within CET +/-2h.

The Gaming team comprises hybrid-casual, casual, and mid-core experts. Our 'Core' games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing, and launching new hit games, while our 'Live' games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on existing successful games. We are creating a new Studio with a big mission: find the next best way to entertain the world by taking our best hits to a new level. You will join a small team that is growing, composed of veterans from the industry, where you will participate in every aspect of development.

The Studio is working on refreshing and expanding one of our top legacy games

Collect'Em All (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tarboosh.collectemall&hl=en). This game has already achieved great success, and we're eager to build on that momentum to (i) deploy learnings to more portfolio games and (ii) obtain a moonshot outcome; Paper.io (http://Paper.io) & Hole.io (http://Hole.io) are good such past examples.

What you'll do

We are looking for an outstanding Lead Game Developer with a strong understanding of both the hypercasual and casual mobile game markets to help the team deliver on robust game roadmaps at a fast pace. You will take an innovative approach to gameplay ideas/features and give them their own spin.

• Deconstruct, analyze, and adapt mobile game mechanics for a legacy title with global reach.
• Engage in hands-on coding to create innovative features that are played by millions of users across platforms.
• Focus on balancing and core gameplay parameters to refine player retention and monetization outcomes.
• Manage the development cycle with support from teammates, identifying the precise engineering tasks and processes required to execute the roadmap.
• Partner with the General Manager to take responsibility for technical team structure, recruitment, and onboarding of new engineers.
• Guarantee that the game is being built with high standards and solid coding practices, targeting long-term quality and a high development pace.
• Monitor product health in collaboration with the technical team, ensuring issues are addressed on time and quality metrics improve.
• Work with product leadership on roadmap planning, rollouts, and adoption strategies for new features.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team, elevating the overall codebase and development workflow.
• Optimize performance and stability to meet the demands of a large-scale mobile gaming portfolio.
• Implement systems and tools that enable rapid iteration on gameplay features and live operations.
• Drive the technical execution of new ideas from concept to production, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Support knowledge sharing across the team to maintain code quality and reduce technical debt.
• Contribute to the broader engineering culture of the studio by promoting best practices and continuous improvement.

This role offers a strong impact on the company by contributing daily to important decisions with a senior, multidisciplinary team of passionate and talented people working on one of the most successful Voodoo games. Flesh out the details of a game's design, oversee its testing, and revise the game in response to player feedback. Thanks to your creativity and teamwork, let's entertain millions of people with our hit games.

Requirements

• A creative and hacker mindset that drives you to solve complex problems with elegant technical solutions.
• Good sense of gameplay experience and special attention to details in both code and design.
• At least 5 years of professional experience on Unity or other game engines in a professional capacity.
• A successful track record in top-tier mobile games that have reached a wide audience.
• Familiarity with optimization issues on mobile platforms and the ability to address them proactively.
• Comfort with a fully remote environment and asynchronous communication across time zones.
• Strong ownership of technical tasks and the ability to operate with minimal supervision.
• Proven ability to translate gameplay concepts into functional, high-performance systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with live operations and retention mechanics in hypercasual or casual games.
• Knowledge of mobile performance profiling and memory optimization techniques.
• Exposure to monetization systems and analytics-driven decision making.
• Background in multiplayer or competitive game mechanics.

Practical notes

This position can be Turkey-based or fully remote within CET +/-2h.