About the role
Full-Time | Berlin, Germany
Kolibri Games is a mobile games developer from Berlin. The company focuses on the idle genre, serving hundreds of millions of players worldwide. The culture emphasizes a fair recruitment process, a friendly working environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
Role Overview
The Core Game Tech (CGT) team is a small, senior group responsible for the underlying technology used across all company games. The role involves consulting with game teams on technical decisions, investigating undefined requirements, and building systems and integrations such as compliance features, third-party SDKs, and shared tooling.
Responsibilities
- Design and build shared systems for multiple live games featuring dynamic events and scheduled content.
- Drive third-party integrations and maintain portfolio currency by evaluating and integrating SDKs and managing Unity version upgrades.
- Advise game teams as a technical counterpart to drive standardization and adoption of shared solutions.
- Deliver compliance and privacy features across the portfolio, including age assurance APIs, CMP implementations, and GDPR data deletion flows.
- Investigate open-ended technical problems and translate regulations, vendor changes, and internal needs into concrete technical requirements.
Required Skills
- Ideally 5+ years of professional software development experience in C# and Unity3D (non-gaming context expertise is welcomed).
- Wide understanding of Unity internals, including native implementations and backend interactions.
- Proficiency in performance investigations.
- Ability to navigate the unknown and learn new technical areas.
- Strong written and spoken communication skills with the ability to influence technical adoption.
- Experience building libraries, packages, APIs, or tooling for other developers.
- Ability to plan and communicate technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to derive requirements from ambiguous or external sources such as regulations, platform policy, and vendor documentation.
- Appetite for continuous learning.
Desirable Skills
- Experience debugging below the C# layer into Android and iOS platform code.
- Experience profiling performance on mobile.
- Exposure to compliance, privacy, or platform policy work (GDPR, CMP, age assurance, ATT, etc.).
- Familiarity with reactive or async programming and dependency injection frameworks (e.g., UniRx, Zenject, UniTask).
- Passion for games and understanding of the mobile market (F2P and LiveOps).
- Strong familiarity with using LLMs in game development.
- Familiarity with Firebase Crashlytics and understanding of ANRs.
Benefits and Perks
- Hybrid Work: Flexible hours and a balance between office and remote work.
- Modern Office Space: Located in Berlin-Mitte with amenities including table tennis, kicker tables, and modern meeting spaces.
- Health & Fitness Bonus: Monthly allowance for fitness activities such as gym memberships or Urban Sports Club.
- Company Holidays: Team bonding trips.
- Learning Budget: Yearly budget dedicated to professional growth and skill development.
- Relocation: Support from the HR team for employees and their families moving to Berlin.
- 30 Days Holiday: Yearly holiday policy for all employees.
- Social Events: Includes BBQ's, movie nights, team lunches, and Friday dinner/drinks at the office. Team event budget provided for games or sports equipment.
Additional Information
- The studio is international; applications must be submitted in English.
- Cover letters stating motivation are appreciated but not mandatory.
- The company is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment.