About the role
Location
Berlin or Tübingen, Germany (Hybrid; not fully remote)
Role Overview
Lead the engineering effort on EMERGENCY HQ, a successful live mobile title. You will set technical direction for features and live‑ops, keep the game fast and stable across devices, and help a small team deliver with quality and speed.
Responsibilities
- Technical Roadmap: Own the technical roadmap for live features, systems, and events; scope with Product and Design and deliver to clear milestones.
- Leadership: Lead engineers through mentoring, code reviews, and sensible standards; foster an ownership culture over micromanagement.
- Architecture: Architect and implement gameplay, meta, and content pipelines that scale for live‑ops (economy/progression hooks, events, reward systems).
- Performance: Maintain performance and stability targets (frame time, memory, crash‑free rate); profile and optimise for a wide device range.
- Operations: Own CI/CD and release health: build pipelines, automated checks, branch strategy, store submissions, hotfix flow.
- Integration: Integrate and maintain analytics/telemetry, remote config/feature flags, A/B testing, MMP/attribution (incl. SKAN) and IAP flows.
- Compliance: Keep SDKs and platform requirements current (ad mediation, analytics, push, store policies for iOS/Android).
- Quality Assurance: Partner with QA on test strategy (automation where sensible) and raise the quality bar for every release.
Mandatory Qualifications
- 5+ years in software engineering with 2+ years shipping mobile games in Unity/C#.
- Proven live‑ops experience.
- Experience leading engineers or a squad.
- Strong ownership, good planning, and clear communication skills.
- Solid grasp of mobile performance (profilers, GC/memory, async), asset/Addressable‑style content pipelines, and reliability practices.
- Comfort with CI/CD and version control (Git); release management and store submission know‑how.
- Familiarity with analytics/event schemas, remote config, A/B testing, iOS privacy/SKAN, and IAP receipt/entitlement flows.
- Professional English proficiency.
Preferred Qualifications
- Collaboration experience with backend/services teams (APIs, cloud functions, feature flags).
- Exposure to ad tech and mediation SDKs.
- Interest in data‑informed experimentation.
- A feel for systems/gameplay design and player experience.
Benefits & Perks
- Stability & Success: EMERGENCY HQ has been live for 7 years and 2025 is the best year yet.
- Original IP: Build, own, and operate internal IP with a tight, collaborative crew.
- Ownership Culture: Clear goals with responsibility and autonomy to deliver results; support provided when needed.
- Work Environment: Great office in a vibrant Berlin neighborhood (Friedrichshain) with plenty of home office flexibility.