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title: 'Senior Software Engineer | Live Games at Wildlife Studios'
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# Senior Software Engineer | Live Games at Wildlife Studios

- **Company:** Wildlife Studios
- **Location:** São Paulo, Brazil
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wildlifestudios/jobs/8188615002

## Job description

At some point in a senior engineer's career, they stop asking permission to make the architectural call — and start asking what the right call actually is.

That's the level we're hiring at.

Wildlife's Live Games Tech team operates with real end-to-end accountability. You'll make architectural decisions for systems serving millions of daily players — not write proposals that cycle through approval layers, but actually decide, implement, ship, and own the outcomes. You'll define how the team operates in production. You'll shape the technical direction of features from their earliest conversations. And when something breaks in production, you're the person who was already thinking about it.

Our stack: Unity/C# on the client, Go on the backend, AWS and Kubernetes for infrastructure.

## WHAT YOU'LL LEAD

- Architectural design and implementation of complex features across mobile client and backend — with explicit, documented trade-offs
- Full technical ownership of your domain: performance, scalability, long-term maintainability, and accountability for the outcomes
- The full production cycle: shipping, monitoring, reading post-release signals, iterating fast without sacrificing quality
- The team's observability practices: SLIs, alerting, dashboards, incident response processes that hold up under pressure
- Proactive improvements to the codebase — not as a separate track, but as part of how you operate
- Technical development of junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and design discussions
- Feature direction in collaboration with product and design from the very first conversation

## WHAT YOU'LL NEED

- Deep experience as a developer with production systems at scale
- Proven background in software architecture and system design for live environments
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident response in production
- A clear track record of leading technical initiatives and raising the bar for those around you
- Working proficiency in English

## WHAT WE'D LOVE TO SEE

- Unity/C# for mobile
- Go and Kubernetes-based backends
- AWS
- A background in games or other high-traffic consumer products

## WHO YOU ARE

You've shipped things that live in production and you understand what ownership really means. You make architectural decisions with confidence — and you can explain the why to engineers, product, and leadership without losing the room. You think in systems. You don't wait for the perfect spec. And when something breaks in production, you're the one people want to have been already thinking about it.

## ABOUT WILDLIFE

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Here, we create and maintain games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

## EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.

## About Wildlife Studios

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wildlife Studios is a leading global mobile game developer and publisher, one of the 10 largest mobile gaming companies in the world, with a portfolio of over 60 games that have reached billions of players.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: São Paulo, Brazil
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Mobile gaming (free-to-play)
- Target customers: B2C – global mobile gamers
- Mission statement: "We dream of being the best technology company to work for in the world and we aspire to develop games that will be remembered by generations." [careers.wildlifestudios.com](https://careers.wildlifestudios.com/)

## Products & Services
- **[Zooba]**: Multiplayer battle royale mobile game with animal characters.
- **[War Machines]**: Real-time multiplayer tank battle game.
- **[Tennis Clash]**: Real-time multiplayer tennis game that reached #1 in over 100 countries.
- **[Sniper 3D]**: First-person shooter sniper game; was the giant shooting game worldwide until Fortnite’s launch.
- **[Castle Crush]**: Real-time multiplayer strategy card game.
- **[Bike Race]**: Physics-based racing game that won Apple Game of the Year (2012) and Facebook Game of the Year (2013).
- **[Colorfy]**: Coloring book app for mobile with over 90 million users.
- **[Racing Penguin]**: Early hit that reached 100,000 downloads per day.
- All products are mobile games (free-to-play with in-app purchases).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $3 billion (as of Series B round in 2021) [newsroom.wildlifestudios.com](https://newsroom.wildlifestudios.com/fast-facts/)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $120M (Series B, 2021); over 4.7 billion total game downloads; ~400 employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investors not disclosed in provided sources. Affiliated studios include Never Forget Games (USA), Playabit (Turkey), 8 Bit Bandits (USA), Stellar Core (Finland), SuperWow! (USA), and FoxBear Games (USA). [newsroom.wildlifestudios.com](https://newsroom.wildlifestudios.com/fast-facts/)
- **Growth Signals**: Opened offices in the US, Brazil, Finland, Ireland, Argentina, and Israel; announced multiple affiliated studios in 2021–2022; portfolio expanded to 60+ games; reached 3 billion downloads milestone.

## Competitive Advantages
- Massive global user base (billions of downloads) and proven ability to create hit titles across multiple genres.
- Strong focus on talent acquisition and retention with a transparent, generous compensation philosophy.
- Global studio network with offices in key markets, enabling access to diverse talent and local insights.
- Commitment to diversity and equal opportunity in hiring, which helps build inclusive teams that reflect a global player base.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding globally by opening new offices and forming affiliated studios.
- Scale development and delivery capacity by hiring top-tier talent worldwide.
- Maintain a portfolio of engaging, long-lived games (e.g., Sniper 3D still updated years after launch).
- Build a company culture that aims to be the best technology workplace in the world.

## Why Work Here
- Culture highlights: "Being in Wildlife is about being part of something big" – employees are called "Wilders" and are treated as part of a mission to create memorable games. [careers.wildlifestudios.com](https://careers.wildlifestudios.com/)
- Recruitment process is transparent, with clear expectations, coaching from recruiters, and a focus on candidate experience.
- Compensation philosophy: "We don’t offer the minimum possible wage… we try to be generous" and operate within a range based on market expectations and interview evaluation. [careers.wildlifestudios.com](https://careers.wildlifestudios.com/talent-acquisition/)
- Remote/hybrid policy: Transitioned to work-from-home during COVID-19; all roles were expected to begin as remote at that time. Current policy not specified in provided sources.
- Notable perks: Strong emphasis on diversity and inclusion; state-of-the-art technologies used in recruitment; HR teams dedicated to each business unit.

## Sources
1. [wildlifestudios.com](https://wildlifestudios.com/)
2. [careers.wildlifestudios.com](https://careers.wildlifestudios.com/)
3. [careers.wildlifestudios.com/talent-acquisition](https://careers.wildlifestudios.com/talent-acquisition/)
4. [newsroom.wildlifestudios.com/fast-facts](https://newsroom.wildlifestudios.com/fast-facts/)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/wildlifestudios](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wildlifestudios)

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