Founded in 2012, N-iX Games is one of the biggest game development and art production vendors in Ukraine, working with leading publishers and media enterprises around the globe. The team of 240+ professionals focuses on full-cycle game development, VR solutions, and content creation for all the most popular platforms. The studio has successfully collaborated with over 40 clients, including Paradox Interactive, Tempo Storm, Supermassive Games, and VRChat.
At N-iX Games, we strive to deliver AAA quality of our work and looking for exceptional talent to join us. If you are excited about the opportunity to collaborate and grow among passionate experts — we invite you to our team! As a technical game designer in our team, you will be responsible for forging and assembling all aspects of the player’s experience for an upcoming ambitious mobile project. You will be responsible for setting up scenes, visual scripting, and content implementation using custom Unity3D-based tools.
Responsibilities
- Balance game economies, progression systems, characters, weapons, items, and other gameplay systems
- Create and maintain comprehensive game design documentation (GDDs, feature specifications, balancing documents)
- Propose engaging and creative gameplay features that will improve user experience, engagement, and monetization
- Playtesting and design debugging
- Analyze player behavior, game metrics, and feedback to drive design decisions
- Idea generation
- Own features throughout the entire development cycle, from concept to release and post-launch support
- Work directly with the team to ensure that the product is of the highest quality
Requirements:
- 4+ years of overall experience in the game design area
- At least 2 released projects
- Excellent knowledge of mathematics, probability theory, and combinatorics with examples of projects
- Experience working on sci-fi projects and a deep understanding of the genre's characteristics
- Understanding of different game genre mechanics, core gameplay and metagame
- Knowledge and deep analysis of trending games on PC
- Good writing skills and ability to describe thoughts in a structured but simple manner
- Practical, hands-on experience building game economies and balancing formulas for Roguelite and city-builder frameworks
- Passion for making and playing games
- English level: C1 (Advanced)
Good to have
- Mathematics education
- Experience designing and balancing complex combat, economic, or strategic systems
- Practical experience with Unreal Engine 5
- Copywriting skills
- Advanced knowledge Excel/Google Sheets
We offer*:
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other location-specific benefits
*not applicable for freelancers
Skills Required
- 4+ years of overall experience in the game design area
- At least 2 released projects
- Excellent knowledge of mathematics, probability theory, and combinatorics with examples of projects
- Experience working on sci-fi projects and deep understanding of the genre's characteristics
- Understanding of different game genre mechanics, core gameplay and metagame
- Knowledge and deep analysis of trending games on PC
- Good writing skills and ability to describe thoughts in a structured but simple manner
- Practical, hands-on experience building game economies and balancing formulas for Roguelite and city-builder frameworks
- Experience with custom Unity3D-based tools, scene setup, visual scripting, and content implementation
- Passion for making and playing games
- English level: C1 (Advanced)
- Mathematics education
- Experience designing and balancing complex combat, economic, or strategic systems
- Practical experience with Unreal Engine 5
- Copywriting skills
- Advanced knowledge Excel/Google Sheets
What We Do
N-iX is a global software solutions and engineering services company that helps world’s leading organizations turn challenges into lasting business value, operational efficiency, and revenue growth using advanced technology. Whether you need to build a custom solution, modernize your digital product or acquire extra tech expertise - we have the experience and capabilities to ensure your success. With over 2,000 professionals in 25 countries across Europe and the Americas, N-iX offers expert solutions in cloud, data analytics, embedded software, IoT, AI, machine learning, and other tech domains. Being in business for over two decades, we have worked with dozens of industry-leading enterprises and Fortune 500 companies creating value across a wide variety of sectors, including finance, manufacturing, supply chain, retail, e-commerce, healthcare, and more. Our unique combination of business domain expertise and technical know-how enables us to effectively collaborate with ISVs, tech companies, and enterprises of all sizes. Thanks to the strong tech ecosystem and partnerships with AWS, GCP, Microsoft, SAP, OpenText, Snowflake, and others, we bring extra speed, scale and efficiency to more than 160 organizations across the globe. N-iX is recognized by numerous industry awards, such as CRN Solution Provider 500, Global Outsourcing 100 by IAOP, ISG Provider Lens™, Modern Application Development services providers by Forrester, etc
