Game Developer (Cocos2d-x)

Location: Remote; eligible from the United States

Company

hirify.global Human Data pairs experienced engineers with a modeling team to evaluate production code and software-engineering agents.

What you will do

• Run and reproduce generated code outputs in a sandboxed environment for Cocos2d-x game-development assignments.
• Evaluate game-development solutions for correctness, style, compilation, runtime behavior, and edge-case handling.
• Write minimal failing unit tests that demonstrate missed bugs.
• Compare paired solutions, rank them against a rubric, and provide written rationales.
• Tag failure modes such as compile errors, runtime crashes, off-by-one errors, and security issues with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures and calibrate reviews against gold-standard examples to maintain inter-rater agreement.

Requirements

• Strong day-job engineering experience reading, running, and debugging unfamiliar code for Cocos2d-x game-development work.
• Ability to write concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework such as pytest, Jest, JUnit, Go test, or RSpec.
• Clear written reasoning suitable for review by another senior engineer.
• Reliable asynchronous availability for at least 10 hours per week.

Nice to have

• Prior code-review or technical-interview-grading experience.
• Open-source contributions or a public portfolio demonstrating production-quality code.
• Experience with the target language's standard tooling, linters, and idiomatic style guides.
• Familiarity with security-review checklists such as OWASP and CWE, and AppSec patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work as an independent specialist contractor.
• Contractor arrangement with program-defined task volume and review pacing.
• Hourly rate confirmed after the interview process.
• Placement depends on current program demand and reviewer confirmation.

Hiring process

• Confirm profile and eligibility details during specialist intake.
• Attach the role to the application and undergo human review.
• Hear from the recruiting team if the profile fits a current program.