Lead C++ Software Engineer (Gameplay)

Location: Remote from anywhere in the world or from one of the company's offices

Company

Playrix is a mobile game development company creating casual games played by millions of people worldwide.

What you will do

• Drive the technical development of game products across architecture, quality, development culture, and engineering practices.
• Develop events, mini-games, game logic, graphics functionality, and match-3 and meta features.
• Optimize technical performance, stability, loading speed, memory consumption, SDKs, and the game engine.
• Lead, develop, hire, evaluate, and manage teams of three or more programmers.
• Implement and scale AI-assisted development processes, including agentic workflows and integrations with internal infrastructure.
• Solve complex technical problems, conduct code and design reviews, and ensure rapid, stable implementation.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of commercial experience with C++ and/or Unity.
• Experience developing projects released to production.
• At least 1 year of experience managing a team of 3 or more programmers.
• Confident knowledge of modern C++14/17 and STL.
• Experience with popular game engines such as Unity, Unreal, Godot, Cocos2D, or Defold.
• Understanding of AI infrastructure and modern AI tools, with the ability to integrate them into development processes.

Nice to have

• Experience developing casual mobile games.
• Experience with OpenGL ES, Metal, Lua, Python, advanced CI/CD, and automated testing.

Culture & Benefits

• AI is used daily as an engineering standard for task decomposition, code navigation, implementation, refactoring, testing, and review.
• Generated code follows the same reviews, tests, quality gates, and product validation as manually written code.
• Flexible schedules, results-focused work, and the option to work remotely worldwide or from a company office.
• Voluntary health insurance for employees and children, paid vacation and sick leave, and additional well-being reimbursements.
• Funding for conferences, courses, internal events, foreign language lessons, and additional paid educational leave.
• Offline company events, hackathons, competitions, and pet-care expense reimbursement.