Lead Technical Level Designer for PC and console games

Nekki is a game development studio with over 20 years of experience. It creates games for mobile, PC, and consoles, focusing on product quality and player experience. Its Shadow Fight series and Vector have been downloaded over 1 billion times, while SPINE and Fight Me are among its new titles.

• Lead a team of technical level designers by planning workload, assigning tasks, and evaluating work quality;
• Help team members grow through regular one-to-ones, feedback, development plans, and mentorship;
• Build a smooth production pipeline with level artists, level designers, narrative designers, and programmers;
• Identify root causes of recurring production problems and initiate development of missing tools;
• Translate designers' needs into technical requirements and work with programmers on solutions;
• Keep documentation up to date and help the team learn the tools;
• Oversee the technical quality of levels, including collisions, streaming, and event script setup.

• 3+ Years of experience in game level production, including hands-on technical experience;
• Experience leading a team of 3 or more people or mentoring experience;
• Experience independently implementing level mechanics and systems in Blueprints or C++;
• Experience with UE5 level production tools, including Level Streaming, World Partition, Data Layers, HLOD, One File Per Actor, Level Instances, and Packed Level Actors;
• Understanding of level design fundamentals;
• Nice to have: A shipped PC or console project, experience developing editor tools with Editor Utility Widgets, Python in UE, or C++, experience profiling and optimizing levels for consoles, experience working on third-person action games.

• Remote work.