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title: 'Senior Game Developer at Spyke Games'
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# Senior Game Developer at Spyke Games

- **Company:** Spyke Games
- **Location:** Istanbul, Turkey
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2022-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/spyke-games/2b9ed21c-b392-4d09-916d-fd8ecacc05b7

## Job description

## About Spyke Games

We are a leading mobile gaming company founded by gaming veterans who have built and scaled massive gaming businesses for the past decade.

We want to build the next generation of mobile game franchises to be played by millions of people around the globe for years. We are bringing together the smartest, the most talented and ‘fun to work with’ group of people united around this single mission. Fostered with team spirit and collaboration, we strive to create a passionate, energetic and eager to learn “geek” culture focused on games.

We’re hiring extraordinary people to help, build and grow mobile games and to dream up new ideas that will reach millions around the world. In this role, you will be working in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment with some of the smartest minds in the industry. This scale comes along with very interesting engineering challenges which we are solving together, using a technology-agnostic and horizontal decision-making approach. Alongside our games, we are growing as software engineers and as a team.

Job Responsibilities

- Build an amazing experience for the millions of users who play every day
- Design, implement, test, and maintain our casual gaming products
- Write clean, sustainable code and participate in peer code-reviews
- Have ownership of a primary workstream, which you will own end-to-end, but work in close collaboration with your fellow mobile engineers
- Brainstorm new ideas together with your team to continually iterate and improve the user experience of our games

Job Requirements

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or any equivalent department
- 4+ years of experience in using Unity or other game engines like libGDX, Cocos2d-x, Unreal, and Godot.
- Good command of various programming languages (such as C#, Java) and experience on best practices and idioms of these languages
- Experience in the development of UI, audio, animation systems and good CPU and GPU profiling & optimization skills.
- Deep understanding of the mobile platforms and their specific requirements.
- Excellent understanding of software architecture, design, and development.
- Apart from technology and programming language, having strong object-oriented skills including design, coding, and testing patterns
- Eager to search/discuss new technologies
- Comfortable with speaking/reading English
- Having analytical, practical problem-solving skills

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## About Spyke Games

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Spyke Games is a mobile gaming company that creates casual puzzle games with a focus on high retention and rapid development cycles.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total funding $110M)
- **Headquarters**: Istanbul, Turkey
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Rina Onur (CEO), Remi Onur (COO), Barkin Basaran (CPO), Fuat Coşkun (CTO), Mithat Madra (CMO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Mobile gaming (casual puzzle games)
- Target customers: B2C (mobile gamers, free-to-play with in-app purchases)
- Mission: “When talented people unite around a single mission and are given the freedom to operate, something magical happens. The end result is the creation of games that will be played for years to come.”

## Products & Services
- **Tile Busters**: A free-to-play puzzle game combining tile matching, sudoku, and mahjong elements (launched 2023).
- **Blitz Busters**: A 3D variation of the tile-matching puzzle game.
- **Royal Riches**: A social casual mobile game.
- **Yarn Loop**: A yarn-puzzle game.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $5M (latest reported); total funding $110M across three rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Griffin Gaming Partners (led $55M seed round), Moon Active (led $50M Series A), Endeavor Outliers, Endeavor Turkey.
- **Growth Signals**: 1800% annual revenue growth from 2021 to 2023; 89 employees (+14.1% YoY); three times higher 7-day retention than the top 25% of casual games; developed an internal tool that reduced game development cycles from 12 months to 3–4 months.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed of iteration**: Proprietary tooling cuts game development time by ~70%, enabling rapid testing and launch.
- **AI-driven personalization**: Uses AI to predict player behavior and dynamically adjust in-game experiences, boosting retention.
- **Ad-light monetization**: Shows fewer ads than competitors; relies more on in-app purchases, leading to higher player satisfaction and retention.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Co-founders previously built Peak Games (acquired by Zynga for $1.8B), bringing deep industry connections and proven execution.

## Strategic Focus
- Building “forever franchises” – games designed to retain players over years.
- Expanding portfolio to 4–5 core titles while maintaining fast development cycles.
- Leveraging AI further to optimize player experience and monetization.
- Strengthening local talent retention in Turkey while attracting global talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes creativity, innovation, and freedom to operate. Co-founders are hands-on and focused on replicating the successful culture of Peak Games.
- **Work model**: Mix of on-site (Istanbul HQ) and remote roles (e.g., Performance Marketing Specialist, Product Manager, Game Developer) – check specific job postings.
- **Engineering & tech stack**: Unity, C#, Python, Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Redis, Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, Tableau, Looker, and more. Strong backend and data science teams.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling company with aggressive revenue targets through 2027.
- **Perks**: Not extensively documented, but the company invests in employee development and local talent. Office located in Şişli, Istanbul.
- **Considerations**: Employee rating of 2.9/5 (based on 7 reviews) – work-life balance rated 2.4, culture 2.5; may reflect growing pains of a fast-scaling startup.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/spyke-games)
2. [CBInsights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/spyke-games)
3. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/spyke-games)
4. [Endeavor](https://endeavor.org/stories/behind-the-curtain-why-we-selected-turkish-startup-spyke-games/)
5. [Lever Jobs](https://jobs.lever.co/spyke-games)

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