Gameplay Engineer (World of Warships)

The role

The Gameplay Engineer will develop and maintain long-term, player-facing systems for World of Warships. This includes meta-gameplay activities, player progression, combat missions, achievements, and statistics across the game client and backend systems.

What you will do

• Own features from requirements clarification and design through implementation, release, and maintenance
• Develop and maintain meta-gameplay features across client and backend systems
• Work with persistent state, asynchronous flows, and integrations
• Investigate bugs, state inconsistencies, and production issues
• Collaborate with game design, product, QA, production, and engineering teams

Required qualifications

• Practical software development experience, professional or through substantial self-directed projects
• Ability to understand and safely modify unfamiliar code
• Understanding of data modelling, stateful and asynchronous applications
• Ability to clarify requirements and communicate technical findings clearly
• Self-directed learning, curiosity, and strong communication skills
• Technical English for documentation, code, and comments
• Readiness to work in Belgrade, Serbia

Nice to have

• Experience with FastAPI or Django
• Knowledge of Golang or C++
• Understanding of frontend development with JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience maintaining long-lived production systems
• Experience diagnosing concurrency, state, or integration issues
• Experience with generated code or schema-driven systems
• A game mod, private server, bot, emulator, or reverse-engineering project

Benefits

• Additional vacation days based on years of service: up to 5 days on top of the statutory minimum
• Additional paid time off (5 Personal Days, Birthday Leave, Marriage Leave, Compassionate Leave)
• Sick Leave Compensation
• Maternity Leave Benefits
• Premium Private Health Insurance
• Career development and education opportunities within the company
• English clubs and platform for learning languages
• Mental well-being program (iFeel)
• Commuting allowance
• Company events
• FitPass membership
• Discounts for employees

Before you apply

• This role isn't eligible for relocation & immigration support
• Please submit your CV in English

About the company

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. The company has 15 offices worldwide and flagship products including World of Tanks, World of Warships and World of Tanks Blitz.