Senior Software Engineer
Wildlife Studios is seeking a dedicated and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our Live Games Tech Team in São Paulo. As a key member of this team, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing some of our most popular titles, which engage millions of daily active players worldwide. This position offers the opportunity to make significant architectural decisions, lead technical initiatives, and mentor fellow engineers, all within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing complex features across both mobile client and backend services, ensuring optimal performance and scalability. You will take ownership of technical decisions, oversee the deployment of new versions to production, and monitor post-release performance to facilitate rapid iteration. Additionally, you will define and evolve the team's observability practices, including setting service level indicators, creating alerting systems, and developing dashboards to maintain system health.
The ideal candidate will possess solid experience as a software developer, particularly with production systems operating at scale. A strong background in software architecture and system design is essential, along with experience in monitoring, observability, and incident response for live systems. Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor junior engineers is highly valued. Proficiency in English is required, and experience with Unity/C# for mobile development, Go and Kubernetes-based backend systems, AWS infrastructure, or a background in the gaming industry is considered a plus.
Wildlife Studios is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers globally, having released over 60 titles that have reached billions of players. We are committed to creating and maintaining games that excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come. Joining our team means becoming part of a company that values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous pursuit of excellence in the gaming industry.