We are looking someone with:

• Experience on game projects.
• Strong AS3 programming skills.
• Experience about AS3 performance and memory optimization.
• Strong experience of design patterns and object-oriented programming.
• Habit of always commenting your own code.
• Ability to design robust architectures.
• Ability to create and maintain unit tests for your code.
• Ability to deliver on time and focus on relevant aspects.

Also we appreciate:

• Passion for understanding great games, great game mechanics and flow.
• Desire to constantly develop your skills.
• Goal and deadline oriented.
• Attention to detail.
• Experience from Unity considered as a plus.
• Experience of debugging and profiling tools considered as a plus.
• Experience from mobile development considered as a plus.

We are looking someone with:

• Experience on game projects.
• Strong AS3 programming skills.
• Experience about AS3 performance and memory optimization.
• Strong experience of design patterns and object-oriented programming.
• Habit of always commenting your own code.
• Ability to design robust architectures.
• Ability to create and maintain unit tests for your code.
• Ability to deliver on time and focus on relevant aspects.

Also we appreciate:

• Passion for understanding great games, great game mechanics and flow.
• Desire to constantly develop your skills.
• Goal and deadline oriented.
• Attention to detail.
• Experience from Unity considered as a plus.
• Experience of debugging and profiling tools considered as a plus.
• Experience from mobile development considered as a plus.

We are looking someone with:

• Experience on game projects.
• Strong AS3 programming skills.
• Experience about AS3 performance and memory optimization.
• Strong experience of design patterns and object-oriented programming.
• Habit of always commenting your own code.
• Ability to design robust architectures.
• Ability to create and maintain unit tests for your code.
• Ability to deliver on time and focus on relevant aspects.

Also we appreciate:

• Passion for understanding great games, great game mechanics and flow.
• Desire to constantly develop your skills.
• Goal and deadline oriented.
• Attention to detail.
• Experience from Unity considered as a plus.
• Experience of debugging and profiling tools considered as a plus.
• Experience from mobile development considered as a plus.

We are looking someone with:

• Experience on game projects.
• Strong AS3 programming skills.
• Experience about AS3 performance and memory optimization.
• Strong experience of design patterns and object-oriented programming.
• Habit of always commenting your own code.
• Ability to design robust architectures.
• Ability to create and maintain unit tests for your code.
• Ability to deliver on time and focus on relevant aspects.

Also we appreciate:

• Passion for understanding great games, great game mechanics and flow.
• Desire to constantly develop your skills.
• Goal and deadline oriented.
• Attention to detail.
• Experience from Unity considered as a plus.
• Experience of debugging and profiling tools considered as a plus.
• Experience from mobile development considered as a plus.

As the QA Engineer you will work as a part of our game development team. Your job is to protect the quality of user experience in our products. You are the secret guardian angel for our users.  The ideal candidate is a analytical person with strong problem solving and communication skills.

Key responsibilities:

• Create, manage and execute tests plans for multiple products.
• Utilize user feedback and analytics to validate potential problems.
• Handle multiple projects in parallel to identify common problem.
• Generate bug and user interface problem reports for game development.
• Work with game designers, artists and other developers throughout a product lifecycle.

Key skills and requirements:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Positive attitude, self motivated individual.
• Knowledge of standard web & mobile technologies required.
• Knowledge of server technologies preferred.
• Understand and be experienced with software industry standard QA tools and practices.
• Be a knight defending the user: Insist on the highest standards, and create functional and trenchant tests that ensure excellent user experience.
• Passion for games, true empathy for the user.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and implement new and develop existing back-end features for use by our in-house game developers.
• Ensure scalability on the back-end, project future scalability needs based on current metrics.
• Recognize current and future bottlenecks in the server software and plan & implement them away.
• Work with our operations team to ensure smooth back-end operation.
• Understanding the possibilities of Flash as a technology.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written English.

Technical buzzwords:

• Object-oriented PHP 5, code profiling and optimizing
• MySQL, database query profiling and optimizing
• Caching strategies (Memcached, Redis, Varnish, …)
• Queuing strategies (Beanstalk and similar)
• Subversion
• Linux environments

Also you will need:

• Experience on designing and/or implementing scalable web back-end services.
• A fearless attitude towards big data, ability to manage/shuffle datasets in the hundreds of millions of rows.
• An understanding of the life cycle of a server request.
• A view on what to cache where and how, so as to get more with less work (both human- and server-).
• An opinion on what and how to track/measure, in order to keep tabs on server software health.
• A strong get-stuff-done-and-delivered mindset!

As the Game Producer you will work as a part of our game development team. Your job is to deliver fun in package that meets business goals.  The ideal candidate is a multi-talented person who has a strong vision and strong experience in game design.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing delivery of a successful product according to business goals.
• Managing external contractors.
• Creating a business strategy per product identifying and targeting the customer.
• Creating a solid virtual goods economy and viral strategy per product.
• Managing quality of multiple product development cycles (concept, development, testing, deployment, ports to platforms, foreing translations, live development etc.)
• Leading, contributing and setting performance goals from an user experience point of view to concept design, visuals, game mechanics and game play to ensure successful viral design, retention and monetization techniques.
• Analyzing live game data to constantly improve existing gaming experience.
• Facilitating development to meet goals and success criteria.
• Analyzing behavioral data and passing learnings to game development team.
• Coordinating between development, marketing and business teams.
• Collaborate with designers and developers throughout the entire game production cycle.
• Deploy products in collaboration with PR and marketing team.

Key skills and requirements:

• Strong experience in game design in general.
• Strong passion for creating and playing great games.
• Ability to coordinate multiple tracks of work in parallel.
• Excellent social skills, ability to lead people and negotiate.
• Understanding the possibilities of Flash as a technology.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written English.
• Expertise in Excel.
• Strong technical knowledge.
• Excellent imagination, creativity and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to move fast in moving environments to ensure delivery on time.
• Facebook game development experience is considered as a plus.
• Passion for games and social networks is considered as a plus.
• Any relevant skill that contributes to game design considered as a plus.

Playforia Oy is a Finnish social gaming company based in Helsinki. We develop and run our own platform Aapeli / Playforia.com and produce games for Facebook and mobile platforms. We are now searching for a Director of User Acquisition to work directly under the CEO. If you feel you can be the person we are searching for, please contact us via email.

The Director of User Acquisition will be working on User Acquisition Campaigns to help grow our user base. The ideal candidate is extremely data & analytics savvy. We are looking for someone who has a metrics-driven mindset who can help us optimize marketing spend towards new customers and generally increase performance. We provide top of the line analytics tools (Qlikview) and possibility to develop the analytics further according to your needs.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing, implementing and analyzing user acquisition campaigns via a variety of channels.
• Testing and optimizing campaign performances across various marketing channels.
• Planning, evaluating and managing analytics and funnels to increase new users, viral distribution and lifetime value.
• Recognizing attributes of a high value user per product and developing and testing different creative strategies to maximize user LTV and decrease CPI.
• Developing analytics tools in collaboration with developers.
• Generating user acquisition performance reports to ensure ROI.
• Collaborating with designers to create compelling creative that drives user engagement.
• Collaborating with partners and finding new sources for traffic.
• Benchmarking different channels against each other.

Key skills and requirements:

• Highly motivated and strong passion towards gaining new users.
• At least bachelor level degree from the field of marketing, business, economics or statistics.
• Experience from the field of online marketing.
• Ability to produce presentational ad hoc raports.
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
• Experience with deals based on CPI, CPM, CPC, and CPA.
• Expertise in Excel
• Experience in MySQL considered as a plus.
• Experience with Qlikview considered as a plus.

Key responsibilities:

• Overseeing development, tracking project and resource allocation plans and maintaining processes.
• Ensuring delivery of products and related assets on time and in scope.
• Identifying, managing and escalating issues and risks to ensure delivery and technical quality.
• Setting project technical quality and performance requirements to be followed throughout the project.
• Communicating goals to the development team by defining iteration based objectives and success criteria.
• Provide release information to marketing and PR.
• Maintaining project documentation.
• Overseeing development of project deliverables.
• Actively following technology and sharing knowledge and learnings from earlier project experiences to help improve project processes.
• Coordinating product QA.
• Facilitating open communication with and between developers, designers, QA, support, operations and sales.

Key skills and requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering is preferrable, but not absolutely essential.
• Deep understanding of internet technologies.
• Excellent social skills, ability to lead people and negotiate.
• Excellent verbal and written English.
• Strong project management skills: experience in Agile/Scrum preferable.
• Ability to analyze product needs and plan flexible solutions plan in collaboration with developers and designers.
• Ability to grasp technical concepts in detail and explain them to also non-technical people.
• Ability to coordinate multiple tracks of work in parallel.
• Strong passion for creating great games and nurturing the customer user experience.
• Experience in cross-platform development and publish considered as a plus.
• Experience on iOS project management considered as a plus.
• Experience with Facebook API and other social network related products considered a plus.
• Experience in social network related products considered a plus.