Senior Game Prototype Developer
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YallaPlayMobile Gaming
This position can be remote or based at our state-of-the-art offices in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE.Full-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional game development experience
- Required Skills
- Backend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentGame DesignJavascriptTypeScript
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional game development experience, or an exceptional portfolio demonstrating equivalent senior-level capability.
- A strong portfolio of at least 5 completed playable games, prototypes, game-jam projects, or commercial titles where you had 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 with the ability to work across frontend, game logic, and lightweight backend systems.
- Ability to independently create functional, mobile-friendly UI/UX without relying on dedicated designers.
- Experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, or similar as a core part of your development workflow.
- Comfortable working independently from an incomplete brief, making both design and technical decisions without detailed specifications.
- Strong judgment around what to build, what to simplify, and when the evidence says to iterate, progress, or stop.
Responsibilities
- Take game ideas from concept to complete playable prototype, owning the process from A to Z.
- Define and iterate on the core game mechanics, rules, player flows, controls, progression, and overall gameplay experience.
- Design and implement clear, functional UI/UX that allows players to understand and properly experience the game.
- Build the frontend, game logic, bots, lightweight backend, multiplayer functionality, and other systems required to make the prototype fully playable.
- Scope ideas down to their smallest meaningful testable version, focusing effort on what needs to be proven rather than building unnecessary features.
- Own the prototype loop end to end: define the hypothesis, build the experience, run playtests, analyze the results, and recommend whether to iterate, progress, or stop.
- Use AI coding agents and AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your workflow to dramatically increase development speed.
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