Senior Game Prototype Developer

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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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YallaPlay

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Venture Round on 2018-09

Gaming • Mobile • Artificial Intelligence

YallaPlay is a pioneering mobile gaming company that focuses on creating great Player vs Player (PvP) mobile games driven by its proprietary YallaPlay Real-time Engine. The company is composed of gaming industry veterans passionate about incorporating technology into games. Leveraging advanced AI technologies, YallaPlay produces immersive, interactive, and globally engaging games with a strength in real-time multiplayer experiences. Their games include 'Spades Masters', a popular mobile card game with strategic gameplay and stunning visuals, and 'Zombie World', an upcoming mobile shooter game with a focus on challenging gameplay and upgradable arsenals. YallaPlay is recognized for its long life cycle games that emphasize player interaction and satisfaction, achieving substantial user engagement and downloads across the globe through platforms like the App Store and Google Play.

📋 Description

• Take game ideas from concept to complete playable prototype, owning the process from A to Z • Define and iterate on core game mechanics, rules, player flows, controls, progression, and gameplay experience • Design and implement clear, functional UI/UX • Build frontend, game logic, bots, lightweight backend, multiplayer functionality, and required systems • Use existing, generated, or placeholder art, animation, audio, and other assets • Scope ideas to the smallest meaningful testable version • Define hypotheses, build experiences, run playtests, analyze results, and recommend whether to iterate, progress, or stop • Use AI coding agents and AI-assisted development tools to increase development speed • Instrument prototypes with lightweight analytics where needed • Iterate based on playtests, data, and feedback • Package game rules, learnings, technical approach, and playable builds for production handoff when prototypes graduate • Experiment with AI tools, frameworks, and workflows that improve prototype speed and quality

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional game development experience, or an exceptional portfolio demonstrating equivalent senior-level capability • Strong portfolio of at least 5 completed playable games, prototypes, game-jam projects, or commercial titles with substantial hands-on ownership • Proven ability to independently take a game concept from idea to a complete playable prototype • Strong game-design instincts, including mechanics, rules, pacing, player flows, feedback, and game feel • Strong programming fundamentals across frontend, game logic, and lightweight backend systems • Ability to independently create functional, mobile-friendly UI/UX without relying on dedicated designers • Ability to implement bots, APIs, multiplayer functionality, game-state management, and server-side logic when required • Experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, or similar as a core development workflow • Comfortable using AI-generated, existing, or placeholder visual and audio assets • Comfortable working independently from an incomplete brief and making design and technical decisions without detailed specifications • Strong judgment around scope, simplification, and experiment decisions • Nice to have: Experience prototyping card, board, casual, or multiplayer games • Nice to have: Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript and lightweight web game frameworks such as Phaser or PixiJS • Nice to have: Experience with server-authoritative multiplayer systems or hidden-information games • Nice to have: Unity experience • Nice to have: Experience using generative AI for art, animation, audio, or other game assets • Nice to have: Experience with analytics or experimentation tools • Nice to have: Experience taking prototypes through external player testing

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Remote-first and flexible schedule • Digital nomad friendly • Generous paid time off • Paid birthdays off • UAE visa sponsorship (if applicable) • Growth opportunities and access to learning resources