Vacancies of the week (January 13)

Wanted: art recruiter at MYTONA, junior level designer at Friday’s Games, technical artist at Deus Craft and backend programmer at WN Media Group.

On the basis of the job search service and the Talents In Games recruiting agency, product manager Marina Lopatina has prepared a selection of the most interesting vacancies for the week.

Marina LopatinaArt recruiter in MYTONA (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Yakut MYTONA is one of the largest gaming companies in Russia and the CIS. Its offices are open not only in Yakutsk, but also in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Ivanovo, Singapore and Auckland (New Zealand). Now MYTONA is in search of a capable art recruiter.

Responsibilities:

• active search for candidates in various specialized resources and making initial contact with them;
• screening resumes and portfolios of candidates for key job requirements;
• preparation of descriptions, formation of requirements and placement of vacancies;
• close interaction with hiring managers, development of a search strategy;
• assistance in the initial adaptation of new team members.

Requirements:

• knowledge of the main channels and tools for finding candidates, methods of professional selection;
• developed information retrieval skills: LinkedIn, boolean queries, sourcing extensions, etc.;
• ability to work with specialized resources to search for candidates in the art direction;
• high communication skills, efficiency and technical savvy;
• interest in CG-drawing, IT-sphere and mobile games;
• activity, initiative, enterprise;
• ability to work with a large amount of information, attention to detail, focus on results.

Cooking DiaryJunior Level Designer at Friday’s Games (Novosibirsk, Russia)

Independent developer Friday’s Games is looking for a junior level designer to work on a new mobile game in the farm setting. Among the released titles of the studio are Epic Forces, Stray Souls: Stolen Memories, Gods&Glory.

Responsibilities:

• creating a match-3 mechanic;
• statistical analysis and level balance;
• writing technical specifications for programmers on various game elements;
• development of mechanics and in-game events.

Requirements:

• rich gaming experience on mobile devices, in particular in various match-3 and blast. Namely, at least 100 levels played in Homescapes/Gardenscapes (to choose from), ToyBlast / ToonBlast (to choose from), Candy Crush Saga (any of the series);
• mathematical mindset;
• the ability to correctly and clearly formulate thoughts and ideas, correctly convey them to the whole team;
• passion for mobile games, as well as a desire to grow and develop in this area.

FarmscapesTechnical Artist in Deus Craft (Remote work)

Deus Craft is a Russian developer of games for PC and mobile platforms. He is looking for a technical artist with the possibility of remote collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• preparation of the original graphics, its optimization for mobile devices and support (dimensions, resolution, removal of artifacts);
• integration of graphic content into Unity in compliance with the accepted rules for naming imported files and technical requirements;
• performance improvement, participation in optimization;
• compliance and development of art pipelines (integration of assets, characters and other).

Requirements:

• knowledge and understanding of game graphics optimization features for mobile platforms;
• experience of communication within the team and assistance in solving issues between the development teams and artists;
• experience with Adobe Photoshop, developed artistic skills;
• experience on Unity from 1 year;
• understanding UX/UI;
• ability to work with Git.

Grand Hotel ManiaBackend Programmer at WN Media Group (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

WN Media Group is engaged in the development of a B2B ecosystem, which includes a business conference White Nights, WN Hub and Talents in Games platforms, as well as websites App2Top.ru and Game World Observer. The company needs a backend programmer capable of supporting and developing all these projects.

Responsibilities:

• development of the server part of projects;
• participation in the code review;
• development and support of the existing RESTful API;
• writing tests;
• participation in the development of a new service architecture.

Requirements:

• confident command of PHP 7.x, PHP development experience of at least 3 years;
• understanding OOP, basic design concepts and patterns;
• API development experience;
• knowledge of the Laravel or Symfony framework;
• ability to work with Git;
• experience with Redis;
• test writing experience;
• confident knowledge of SQL.