Senior Software Engineer - II

PlaySimple Games

Website: playsimple.in
Job details:

About Us

We are one of India’s most exciting & fast-growing mobile gaming companies. Founded in 2014, and creating a global mobile gaming landscape in partnership with Modern Times Group (MTG), our Vision is to create simple, impactful casual game experiences at a massive scale. Since our inception, we have built a worldwide network of chart-topping games, and powerful tech & analytics infrastructure to turbocharge their growth. Our product portfolio consists of evergreen hits like Daily Themed Crossword, WordTrip, WordJam, WordRoll, TileMatch, Jigsaw, Wordy, 2248 Number Merge, Word Search Solitaire and Many more.

Visit us at www.playsimple.in to know more.

Role: Senior Software Engineer II

Job Description:

Position Summary:

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to own, build, and ship core gameplay systems that power millions of daily users. This is a hybrid leadership role where you will act as a key Individual contributor while also managing and growing a high-performing engineering team.

This role involves working closely with game designers, artists, product managers, and backend teams to create smooth, scalable, and high-performance game experiences.If you enjoy solving complex problems, building a strong team, and seeing your work directly impact player experience at scale, this role is for you.

What you will do

• Lead the design and development of gameplay features and app flows, maintaining a deep hands-on involvement in the codebase.
• Lead engineering team, resolve conflicts, and conduct regular 1:1s to drive team growth and performance.
• Collaborate with design, art, product, and backend teams to ship features rapidly.
• Define a high bar for technical excellence, ensuring the application of advanced OOPS and design patterns, to build scalable systems.
• Build and maintain high-performance games while ensuring seamless integration with native Android and iOS capabilities
• Take ownership of modules from architecture to deployment.
• Define and execute engineering roadmaps for a 12-month horizon, ensuring strong alignment with business goals
• Directly manage the career progression and growth of Software Engineer

What we are looking for

• 8+ years of professional experience in mobile application / game development.
• Strong command on Javascript or JS-based framework
• Proven, hands-on experience working with native Android (Kotlin/Java) and iOS (Swift/Objective-C) layers
• Demonstrated experience in leading teams and mentoring engineers.
• Exposure to live operations, feature releases, and A/B experiments.
• Ability to build solutions that scale at an organization level and manage complex infra-observability
• Experience working as a full-stack engineer with understanding of server side technologies
• B.Tech/B.E in Computer Science or equivalent.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on casual, puzzle, or word gam
• Understanding of game monetization, ads, and in-app purchase flows.

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