Lead Engineer (Mobile) in Berlin

Job Description

Location: Berlin or Tübingen, Germany (Hybrid; not fully remote)

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Lead the engineering effort on EMERGENCY HQ, a successful live mobile title. You'll set technical direction for features and live‐ops, keep the game fast and stable across devices, and help a small team deliver with quality and speed.

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What you'll do

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• Own the technical roadmap for live features, systems, and events; scope with Product and Design and deliver to clear milestones.

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• Lead engineers through mentoring, code reviews, and sensible standards; foster an ownership culture over micromanagement.

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• Architect and implement gameplay, meta, and content pipelines that scale for live‐ops (economy/progression hooks, events, reward systems).

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• Maintain performance and stability targets (frame time, memory, crash‐free rate); profile and optimise for a wide device range.

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• Own CI/CD and release health: build pipelines, automated checks, branch strategy, store submissions, hotfix flow.

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• Integrate and maintain analytics/telemetry, remote config/feature flags, A/B testing, MMP/attribution (incl. SKAN) and IAP flows.

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• Keep SDKs and platform requirements current (ad mediation, analytics, push, store policies for iOS/Android).

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• Partner with QA on test strategy (automation where sensible) and raise the quality bar for every release.

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What you bring

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• 5+ years in software engineering with 2+ years shipping mobile games in Unity/C#; proven live‐ops experience.

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• Experience leading engineers or a squad; strong ownership, good planning, and clear communication.

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• Solid grasp of mobile performance (profilers, GC/memory, async), asset/Addressable‐style content pipelines, and reliability practices.

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• Comfort with CI/CD and version control (Git); release management and store submission know‐how.

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• Familiarity with analytics/event schemas, remote config, A/B testing, iOS privacy/SKAN, and IAP receipt/entitlement flows.

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• Professional English.

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Nice to have

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• Collaboration experience with backend/services teams (APIs, cloud functions, feature flags).

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• Exposure to ad tech and mediation SDKs; interest in data‐informed experimentation.

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• A feel for systems/gameplay design and player experience.

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Why 16 Tons Entertainment

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• Stability & success: EMERGENCY HQ has been live for 7 years and 2025 is our best year yet.

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• Original game, great team: we build, own, and operate our own IP with a tight, collaborative crew.

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• Ownership over micromanagement: we set clear goals and give you responsibility and autonomy to deliver results—support when you need it, freedom when you don't.

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• Great office in a vibrant Berlin neighbourhood (Friedrichshain) with plenty of home office possible.

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Apply

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Send your CV/LinkedIn and a brief portfolio or repo samples to application@promotion-software.de with subject "Lead Engineer – EMERGENCY HQ".