Vacancies of the week (April 2)

Wanted: Art director in Mail.Ru Group, sound designer at MyTona and senior Java developer at Pixonic.

Based on the job search service and specialists TalentsInGames.com Marina Lopatina, product manager, has prepared a selection of the most interesting vacancies for the week.

Marina LopatinaManagerial vacancy of the week:

Art Director in Mail.Ru Group (Moscow, Saint Petersburg)

For new mobile projects of the IT giant Mail.Ru The Group is looking for an art director. As the company writes in the description, it is looking for a “strong specialist”.

Tasks:

• create art together with artists;
• lead the work of the art department (2D and UI/UX designers are required, 3D is desirable);
• plan tasks, monitor employee development;
• search for visual styles of the project, work through them;
• interact with other departments;
• participate in project development planning (with developers, game designers, QA department and marketers);
• form a team;
• work with outsourcers.

Requirements:

• knowledge and ability to draw in 2D;
• 3D knowledge is desirable;
• experience and skills in managing teams of artists;
• communication skills;
• knowledge of the specifics of game projects.

Moscow office Mail.Ru GroupAudio vacancy of the week:

Sound Designer in MyTona (Saint Petersburg)

The company based in Yakutia is now starting to try itself in the field of midcore projects. Recently, as part of the softlonch, she released the action project Manastorm: Arena of Legends. It is quite possible that the new specialist will have to work on it.

Tasks:

• creating tracks for our games, environment sounds and interface;
• dubbing videos.

Requirements:

• experience in writing music of different styles, as well as working on game sound from 2-3 years;
• experience with sound mixing, knowledge of sound plug-ins, etc.;
• skills of working with Interactive Audio Wwise;
• ability to work in a team and meet deadlines;
• it is mandatory to have a professional portfolio consisting of tracks of different stylistics and dubbing (sound design) of games.

Additional advantages will be:

• experience recording sounds and working with sound recording equipment;
• skills of working in DAW REAPER and Fmod Studio.

MyTona St. Petersburg officeTechnical vacancy of the week:

Senior Java Developer (BackEnd) at Pixonic (Moscow)

Pixonic’s flagship continues to be War Robots. However, today the company is actively working on new games. They are also about online, PvP and mobile battles. A new Java developer will get to one of these projects (and, possibly, to War Robots).

Tasks:

• development of the server part of a highly loaded online game;
• design and implementation of architectural solutions;
• implementation of business logic;
• support and refactoring of existing code;
• interaction with employees of other divisions of the company (Game Design, QA, System Administrators);
• writing unit and integration tests;
• participation in the review of solutions by other specialists;
• project support;
• technical support (3rd line).

Requirements:

• excellent knowledge of Java (from 3 years);
• Linux command line ownership at the local administrator level;
• knowledge of classical algorithms and data structures;
• experience using NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Hazelcast);
• ability to test your own code;
• experience with version control systems (git, gitflow);
• independence and ability to make balanced and rational decisions;
• interest in solving problems, the desire to learn and develop.

Pixonic Moscow Office