Senior Multiplayer Engineer

Would you like to be part of a growing team who is working on delivering our most ambitious project ever - a friendly multiplayer world for children where they can feel safe, creative and able to express themselves?

As a Senior Multiplayer Engineer here at Toca Boca you’ll work on our latest mobile multiplayer title, with technical challenges that span from getting it to work on low level devices with high player counts to making the game server performance and cost effective. You’ll play an instrumental part in making this new venture have massive reach in device coverage, play well and be cost effective.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be responsible for the design and implementation of multiplayer and network code. You’ll create the foundation for our multiplayer framework which is used in client and server side gameplay. To do this you’ll be investigating the use of technologies such as Unity DOTS and its DOTS Multiplayer framework, to find what technology suits the problem best given the massive player count and the device coverage.

You’ll create design documents and specifications outlining multiplayer architecture, design and implementation meeting overall technical and business requirements. You’ll be part of establishing and building the core pieces of the multiplayer implementation necessary for the game. You’ll focus on building something scalable, no quick fixes.

You’ll work with both gameplay and backend engineering to support server-side multiplayer experiences and APIs.
Is this you?
You are a senior engineer with experience designing and implementing multiplayer code for a large number of players, as well as experience with event driven and asynchronous implementations.

You have great knowledge of Unity and C# and you’ve shipped at least one multiplayer game, with a large number of players.

You believe in the power of play!

This is us!
Toca Boca captures the spirit of play. We create digital toys and everyday products that are filled with fun and silliness that kids from any corner of the world can instantly relate to. Everything is designed from their perspective. We celebrate the diversity and quirkiness of their world and give them the freedom to play in ways that only they can.

Good to know!
This position is full time and based in our Stockholm office with a hybrid working model (part office, part working from home). We apply a 6 months probationary period. As we’re an international company, with over 20 nationalities working here, and millions of users all over the world, you have to be fluent in English. Your application should therefore be in English.

Toca Boca develops digital games that capture the power of play and that are filled with fun and silliness that kids around the world can instantly relate to. Since our first product launch in 2011, we have released 46 apps that have been downloaded more than 444 million times the world over, making us the No. 1 mobile-first kids brand in the App Store. Our products focus on sparking kids’ creativity and imagination, creating opportunities for open-ended play.

With offices in Stockholm and San Francisco, Toca Boca is owned by Spin Master Corp., a global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties.