Wanted: game designer in Playgendary, QA-lead in Alawar, project manager in Krasnodar Plarium, analyst at Pixonic, Ruby developer at Social Quantum and lead UI designer at Whalekit.
The brightest vacancies are, as always, in the selection that I prepared for App2Top Alina Wise, Head of Recruitment of VALUES VALUE company. All vacancies can be viewed here.
Alina the WiseGame Design-vacancy of the week:
Game Designer, Playgendary (Minsk/Moscow)
Game developer and publisher Playgendary opens up a career opportunity for an experienced game designer in Minsk or Moscow. Responsibilities will include creating concepts and setting up monetization of game projects, working with the game balance, developing game prototypes, checking basic mechanics, assessing their viability, as well as creating levels. The specialist will fully support the development of games from the prototype stage to the release.
Requirements:
- understanding the monetization models of mobile games;
- the presence of released projects, including successful ones, is mandatory;
- knowledge of mobile app market trends;
- strong knowledge of mathematics;
- the ability to express thoughts clearly and clearly, including in the form of documentation.
Additional advantages will be:
- experience as a leader of a group of game designers;
- experience with application statistics collection systems (flurry, swrve, tapjoy etc.);
- experience of knowledge sharing.
QA-vacancy of the week:
The Novosibirsk company is looking for a person who is ready to lead a team of 2 QA engineers. In addition to direct testing and related tasks, the specialist will develop and update requirements for testing tools, keep project documentation up to date, participate in the formation of technical specifications for development, as well as in the discussion of the specifics of the implementation of game features.
Requirements:
- a good understanding of what software testing and quality control are;
- understanding how to manage quality;
- developed engineering and systems approaches;
- strong leadership qualities. The ability to gain authority and become an informal leader;
- knowledge in management;
- understanding the principles of CI, CD and DevOps at the level of the ability to set the right task or ask the right question;
- the ability to formulate your thoughts perfectly both orally and in writing.
- good technical background.
Product vacancy of the week:
He will be responsible for completing the project on time, updating documentation in a timely manner, monitoring the scope and timing of tasks, and communicating between project participants.
Requirements:
- at least two years of experience as a project manager or analyst;
- higher education in the specialty “Mathematics”, “Analytics” or “Management”;
- developed communication skills;
- experience in project management system;
- understanding the game development process;
- good organizational skills and presentation experience;
- ability to work in a team;
- knowledge of English at Intermediate level or higher.
Analytical vacancy of the week:
Pixonic is expanding its team of analysts and is looking for a new employee in the Moscow office. The new specialist will undertake analytical research aimed at identifying project growth points, monitoring key product metrics, conducting A/B tests and researching trends in the gaming market.
Requirements:
- experience in the gaming industry as a project analyst;
- confident knowledge of basic product and marketing metrics;
- Python/R programming skills;
- experience with databases;
- the ability to visualize the results of their work in an understandable form;
- desire and ability to work with large amounts of data;
- understanding that immeasurable things almost do not exist.
Technical vacancy of the week:
Ruby developer [backend], Social Quantum (Saint Petersburg/Ivanovo)
One of the largest game publishers in the CIS, Social Quantum, is looking for a Backend developer who will participate in the development of a game server in the Ruby programming language. Also, of course, it will be necessary to support the existing code.
Requirements:
- higher technical education;
- at least two years of commercial development experience in Ruby (ActiveSupport, ActiveRecord);
- experience writing tests using RSpec;
- skills of working with highly loaded systems;
- knowledge of data representation formats: JSON, YAML, XML;
- knowledge of SQL, experience with PostgreSQL.
Additional advantages will be:
- experience in designing an API for server-client interaction;
- have an idea of the features of Ruby’s internal work (GC work, work with complex data structures);
- experience in deploying Ruby applications (Capistrano);
- knowledge of design patterns and experience of their application in practice.
Design vacancy of the week:
Senior UI designer, Whalekit Ltd. (Moscow)
Whalekit is the former Moscow studio of Glu Mobile, which has formed a new company in its entirety and continues to develop and grow. The guys are looking for a graphic designer who is ready to create an intuitive, clear, concise interface, without forgetting about style and beauty. Together with a team of game designers, he will create new and optimize existing UI. Will participate in the development of UI screens and user experience (UX) from the idea to the final implementation in the game.
Requirements:
- preferably education in the field of design, graphic design and traditional fine arts;
- successful experience in the gaming industry or UI/UX in Web/Digital design;
- an experienced user of Photoshop, Illustrator. Other UI/UX tools (Invision, Marvell, Adobe XD) – an additional plus;
- the ability to speak intelligently and intelligently;
- a subtle understanding of the sense of space, light, shadow, color;
- ability to work with fonts (FontForge or similar);
- the presence of a portfolio confirming knowledge and skills.
