Senior Meta Programmer (Clash Royale)

TL;DR

Senior Meta Programmer (Clash Royale): Building meta systems, seasonal content, live events, store/purchase/UI flows, and content delivery pipelines with an accent on ensuring frequent, reliable, and confident updates while maintaining quality and performance. Focus on improving robustness, scalability, and usability of existing live operation systems and planning/executing live releases.

Location: Onsite in Helsinki, Finland. Relocation support is provided to Finland.

Company

hirify.global is a games company from Helsinki, Finland, known for creating popular mobile games like Hay Day, Clash of Clans, and Clash Royale.

What you will do

• Collaborate with designers, artists, and programmers to design and implement meta systems, seasonal features, live events, shop, payment handling, and UI flows.
• Improve the stability, scalability, and observability of systems used in live operations.
• Create, support, and evolve tools and workflows to help the team test, ship, operate, and iterate faster and with greater confidence.
• Work closely with production to plan and execute live releases, balancing speed, quality, and risk.
• Identify technical and product risks related to live content and contribute thoughtful solutions to challenges.

Requirements

• Professional C++ experience in large, long-lived codebases.
• Strong background in game development on mobile, console, or PC, ideally with live games.
• Experience working on live systems, meta features, UI, or data-driven content.
• Comfortable working with, maintaining, and improving existing systems.
• Solid understanding of performance, stability, and maintainability in a live environment.
• Good communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego mindset.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with server–client interactions, backend-driven features, or real-time systems in live games.
• Broad technical experience across different parts of a game.
• Product-focused thinking that helps shape technical solutions in ways that support live performance goals.

Culture & Benefits

• Independent teams and trust-based culture fostering creativity and quality.
• Supportive compensation and benefits structured around employee well-being.
• Relocation support provided by a dedicated mobility team and partners.
• Culture of taking risks, learning from failures, and focusing on great games.
• Flat hierarchy where impact is valued over job titles.