Game Designer (Balance and Economy)

Location: Remote from anywhere. Working hours: 10 AM–7 PM (GMT+3), including a 1-hour break, with the option to adjust

Company

Nekki is a game development studio creating games for PC, consoles, and mobile platforms, including the Shadow Fight series, Vector, and 11×11.

What you will do

• Analyze existing game economies and structure their parameters.
• Build spreadsheet-based economy models covering progression, resource sources and sinks, entity costs, rewards, and accumulation rates.
• Identify imbalances, contradictions, anomalous values, and other vulnerabilities in economic systems.
• Model economy changes, prepare new versions, and recalculate models when inputs change.
• Discuss solutions with the Head of Monetization across multiple game projects.
• Create task-specific tools and later validate models against real player data with analytics.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience and experience in game development.
• Ability to build, calculate, and recalculate game economies, including progression costs, resource flows, upgrades, rewards, and accumulation rates.
• Confident spreadsheet skills and a good understanding of basic mathematics.
• Logical thinking, attention to detail, patience, and accuracy when working with large interconnected models.
• Ability to understand systems independently, explain formula results, report problems, and use analytics for self-checking.
• Willingness to use AI tools and create custom tools to solve work tasks.

Nice to have

• Experience with complex, multi-layered economies in 4X, RPG, strategy, battler, midcore, or live-service games.
• Experience working with configurations and analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from anywhere with adjustable working hours.
• Informal team environment with shared gaming interests, game jams, tournaments, and meetups.
• Professional development through specialized conferences and educational events.
• English courses, psychologist sessions, and educational programs.
• Internal coins exchangeable for unique merchandise.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed within 7–10 days; candidates may not receive a response if the company decides not to proceed.