Lead Game Developer
CoolGames
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Amsterdam • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
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Senior
Tech Stack
JavaScriptTypeScript
About the role
- Own the client-side game tech stack, architecture, standards, quality, and long-term evolution.
- Make and guide high-impact technical decisions (performance, architecture, platform compatibility, tooling, rendering, state management).
- Dive into the most complex, technical, or ambiguous problems and lead the path to solutions.
- Ensure technical design discussions are structured, realistic, and aligned with constraints and business priorities.
- Identify risks early and work with producers and leads to maintain predictable delivery.
- Set clear expectations for developers and ensure alignment through ongoing direct conversations.
- Give timely and constructive feedback, both when expectations are exceeded and when they are not met.
- Coach developers in ownership, quality, problem-solving, and professional habits.
- Help the team to implement, optimise, debug, and maintain core client features across our portfolio of HTML5 games.
- Collaborate with backend and platform teams to ensure smooth integration and platform compatibility.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional programming experience, ideally in game development
- Full-stack understanding of HTML5 game development
- Extensive experience with JavaScript / TypeScript and web rendering frameworks (Any of these: Cocos2d, PIXI, Phaser, Three.js, or similar).
- Strong architectural skills with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- A track record of mentoring or guiding other developers.
- Experience making technical decisions in a commercial environment.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to set expectations clearly.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and version control (git).
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration, including health care insurance, travel costs compensation, a company pension plan and a sport allowance
- Market salary
- A flexible hybrid working environment
- A very open, informal and international company culture where everyone can make a difference.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
HTML5 game developmentJavaScriptTypeScriptCocos2dPIXIPhaserThree.jsweb rendering frameworksscalabilityperformance
Soft skills
mentoringguidingcommunicationproblem-solvingcoachingsetting expectationsfeedbackrisk identificationtechnical decision-makingcollaboration