Senior Engineer
(Full-time, Perm)
At TreesPlease our mission is to make games that are good for the planet and are played by millions. We are a small but expanding team of friendly, talented, ambitious and truly diverse game makers. If you are passionate about changing the world through world class games then we’d love to hear from you.
The Role
We’re looking to level-up our capabilities as we extend product features, tooling and workflow on our debut game, Longleaf Valley.
We are in need of a Senior Engineer who has significant professional experience developing and maintaining live mobile games. Being a small team, the ideal candidate will have some experience working across our full tech stack, including delivery of backend solutions for features when required and release pipeline management.
This role may suit an outstanding individual who has worked through typical challenges at an established live games studio and is looking for a step-up to senior level, to adopt broader responsibilities and ownership in a dynamic start-up environment.
Some examples of role responsibilities include:
Create and maintain client code to realise the product aspirations of our game.
Contribute towards identifying and maintaining appropriate 3rd party solutions most appropriate to our evolving needs as a growing studio.
Independently own and deliver solutions end-to-end, proactively obtaining guidance and input from stakeholders when required.
As part of a small team, take shared responsibility for maintaining the quality of our products and contribute towards team efficiencies such as; release management pipeline, workflow tools and diagnostics tooling.
Independently facilitate conversations, reviews and establish goals with colleagues to satisfy project objectives.
Work closely with a multi-discipline team of engineers, content creators, quality assistance, data analysts and production, to predict dependencies and plan tasks to meet project deliverables.
Longer-term, the potential to take leadership over a small group of engineers towards delivering project objectives.
Your skills and experience
Required…
Excellent working knowledge of C#/C++.
Experience developing production-level gaming applications for mobile platforms with Unity.
Understanding of solutions required to build, maintain and expand a product in a live production environment; e.g. Regular release management, live ops features, A/B test and tracking APIs, performance tuning, live diagnostics and debugging, etc…
Proven experience developing and distributing mobile games/apps, with at least two titles in an incremental or iterative-delivery production environment.
Strong communication skills to work as part of a cross-discipline team.
Talented at solving problems and possesses a natural curiosity.
Desirable…
BSc (or equivalent experience) within the field of Computer Science, or related subject.
10+ years experience in the video games and/or interactive entertainment industry (inclusive of post-grad qualifications).
Experience in a ‘lead’ level engineering capacity, taking responsibility for technical decisions and being a force-multiplier for team output.
Professional experience of any other high-level programming languages such as NodeJS, Go, Java or equivalent to develop production-ready services and APIs.
Familiarity with Firebase, GCP, AWS or equivalent.
Familiarity with content management solutions for remote distribution.
Experience working with continuous integration build systems, such as Jenkins, TeamCity or similar.
A genuine interest in casual mobile games.
What we offer
EMI share options in an early stage company.
Fantastic opportunity to make games that truly change the world, that you can be proud of.
Chance to be part of a small team of industry experts where you can have real influence.
Open, friendly, ambitious and diverse culture.
Hybrid working (between our London office twice a week and home).
Summer and Christmas social events.
Diversity & Inclusion
At TreesPlease we are committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive team. We actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
