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Mob Entertainment

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Gaming • Media • Entertainment

Mob Entertainment is a creative studio dedicated to producing groundbreaking entertainment experiences, notably through their popular game series, Poppy Playtime. Their team is composed of talented individuals committed to delivering engaging content for a global audience. The company fosters a vibrant work culture, providing employees with numerous amenities to enhance job satisfaction and productivity.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Define and drive the studio’s technical strategy across gameplay engineering, game systems, tools, performance, and platform support. • Partner with creative, production, and design leaders to align technical execution with game vision and business goals. • Establish engineering standards, processes, and staffing plans that scale with the team and product roadmap. • Identify and mitigate technical risks across gameplay features, backend systems, and performance goals. • Oversee the development of gameplay features, character mechanics, AI systems, physics interactions, and animation integrations. • Lead the architecture and implementation of core game systems—including engine extensions, save systems, frameworks, data pipelines, networking components, and optimization paths. • Ensure systems and gameplay engineering teams deliver clean, scalable, maintainable code in alignment with studio best practices. • Provide technical direction and hands-on guidance in complex engineering challenges. • Manage and grow a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including Leads, Senior Engineers, and technical specialists. • Build a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. • Mentor engineers in career development, technical skills, and leadership capabilities. • Work closely with Production to define milestones, scope, schedules, and resourcing. • Collaborate with Art and Design to translate creative concepts into technically feasible solutions. • Champion quality by working closely with QA, ensuring performance, stability, and reliability across all releases. • Oversee build pipelines, version control workflows, automation processes, and CI/CD strategies. • Guide performance optimization efforts across platforms and hardware specifications. • Ensure smooth releases and patches through close coordination with publishing, QA, and support teams. • Evaluate, adopt, and integrate new technologies, tools, or workflows.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years experience in game engineering, including gameplay and/or systems engineering. • 3+ years in a senior engineering leadership or director-level role within a game studio. • Strong proficiency with Unreal Engine, including C++ and real-time game development. • Proven experience shipping at least one AAA or high-quality indie/mid-scope title. • Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams through full production cycles. • Strong understanding of game architecture, systems design, gameplay mechanics, performance optimization, and platform constraints.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work options • Competitive salary • Equal opportunity employer