Tools, Build & Automation Engineer

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Our Story

At Wooga, we are very proud of the diverse, creative and friendly environment we have established and we believe you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry. Each of our Woogas plays an important role in our success as a company and in shaping our culture. We really value our razor-sharp focus on story-driven casual games, excellent craftsmanship, truly collaborative way of working, and the values we strive to live up to every day. We create joyful experiences that awaken our players’ desire to see what happens next. Based in the heart of Berlin, with over 300 employees from around the world, we work together to create high-quality casual games with engaging stories at the core of the experience.

About the role

As a Tools, Build & Automation Engineer at Wooga, you will play a crucial role in empowering our game teams by building and maintaining tools, Jenkins pipelines, custom Gradle plugins, and Unity libraries. You will work independently within a small, dynamic team, leveraging your broad technical knowledge and generalist mindset to support the creation of delightful story-driven games enjoyed by millions of players.

As a member of our tools team you will work on projects including, but not limited to:

• Develop tools and libraries for use within the team and to support the game development teams at Wooga
• Develop, maintain and run a stable build and test infrastructure for continuously building our internal tools, libraries and games
• Building fully automated pipelines based on code enabling the product teams to create artifacts and deliver them to our deployment infrastructure
• Working with colleagues across teams to set best practices and assess the value of new technologies and frameworks
• You will be actively contributing to the design and code reviews, as well as mentoring and growing other team members

About you

• Familiar with build processes, compiler toolchains and content pipelines for mobile games
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell) distinguish you
• Besides scripting experience (Javascript...) you have strong programming skills in at least one of the mayor object oriented programming languages (C#, C++)
• You have experience with the following technologies: Git, Github
• You have experience with application development (mobile/desktop)
• “Automating everything” is in your blood and a key part of your work philosophy
• You are a creative, analytical thinker embracing new technologies, programming languages and paradigms
• You are a skilled communicator and enjoy working in a team
• You thrive working in an agile environment
• Passionate about games
• Experience with the unity game engine would be considered as a plus
• Familiarity with UI state management patterns (MVC/MVVM/Redux) is a plus
• Knowledge of .NET web application development is a plus

Please note: Research has shown that some under-represented groups in the gaming industry (eg: women) tend to apply only if they meet every single requirement. Here at Wooga, the desire to learn and the willingness to solve problems are more important to us than your experience on paper. We encourage you to apply even if you do not think that you tick all the boxes - thinking outside of such boxes and embracing the diversity of mindsets and backgrounds is what we believe makes our teams thrive.

Our Promise

• Shape the future! Challenge the status quo and team up with a diverse group of experts (over 57 nationalities!) working on crafting the world’s best games.
• We offer a generous relocation package and home search support if you are not already located in Berlin. Did we mention that we also cooperate with Kindergartens?
• Make use of a significant education budget and extra days off for self-development. Join our meet-ups, talks, brown bag lunches, internal trainings, workshops and many others.
• Enjoy the yoga, mindfulness app, sports and transport subsidies. And a Purpose Day to donate your time to a worthy cause!
• Did you know that German is the third most commonly taught language worldwide? Learn it too! We offer German language classes for you and your significant other.
• With our hybrid work model you will work in the office with your teams twice a week, to encourage in-person collaboration and team bonding The other three days you can choose if you want to work from home or from the office. We also offer 10 days a year to work from abroad. We got your back!

At Wooga we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for everyone who works here or with us, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) and game preferences. Be yourself, we like you that way!

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