Senior Game Developer (Game Studio)

Veikkaus creates joy through games and protects it. We want to make sure that gambling in Finland is kept on the joyful side. All our actions are guided by sustainability. We want to be a trailblazer in the gaming industry, and a trendsetter of a responsible player experience. Wellbeing is our passion. It is important that our employees enjoy coming to work every day. We offer versatile and extensive employee benefits. With us, you get to do work that makes a difference, in a spirited work community that is constantly developing. Let’s work together – to keep gambling on the joyful side.

Senior Game Developer (Game Studio)

We are expanding our Game Studio and are looking for a Senior Game Developer to join us. You will be part of an enthusiastic and highly skilled team, developing top-notch real-money games using modern in-house tools. The games you create will be widely distributed, in both domestic land-based and online channels. Working tightly with Veikkaus’ subsidiary Fennica Gaming, we are also bringing our games to international audiences.

Our game teams typically consist of two developers, two artists, and a producer, working in close cooperation with other teams that are responsible for concept design, game technologies, backend, and QA. We strive to utilize agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban, and each team has the freedom to organize their workflow as they see fit. 

As a Senior Game Developer, you will be responsible for project planning, code quality, game experience, and acting as a contact point within the game team. Work will be in close collaboration with producers, artists, backend team, concept team, and QA. You will design architecture, evaluate the feasibility of requested features, and enforce the use of best practices and shared components. You are the driving force of the project and ensure that things run smoothly for the whole team. You will also have the opportunity to work with our external partners.

The real-money gaming market is changing rapidly, this is an exceptional opportunity to bring your full potential to the table and develop your skills and expertise according to your interest and talent.

We expect from you:

• 3+ years of professional Typescript experience
• Good communication skills 
• Excellent time management skills
• Desire to mentor and help others
• Drive for creating entertaining and quality games
• Understanding of Git
• Fluent Finnish and English language skills

Considered a plus:

• Professional game development experience 
• Experience with real-money gaming
• Skills in C++ and/or Java 
• Experience with game engines (Unity, Unreal, self-made etc.)
• Familiar with Linux environment
• A public GitHub profile or similar

With us, you'll have the opportunity to develop world-class real-money games and software and grow as a professional. We offer possibility and active encouragement to broaden your skillset in relaxed atmosphere with awesome co-workers in self-driven game development teams. In addition, we genuinely strive to be a responsible employer, offering meaningful tasks, unusually wide slate of employee benefits, and ensuring a healthy work-life balance. You can read more about us and out benefits here.

Our office is located in Pohjois-Haaga, Helsinki, Finland. We are working in a hybrid work model that enables flexible remote work. 

Please send your application with CV and salary request included. We are waiting to hear from you as soon as possible, but latest on 7.4.2024. Candidates will be interviewed already during the application period.

Veikkaus as a company will perform a drug test, credit information check, and security clearance check (According to the Act on Security Clearance (726/2014)) to the person selected for the position.

For any inquiries about the position please contact mikko.laakso@veikkaus.fi