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Are you an ambitious game developer with a passion for creating engaging experiences and the leadership skills to drive a team to success? Do you aspire to see your work reach millions of players worldwide while directly influencing project outcomes?

About the job

We are looking for a Senior Game Developer & Team Lead to join our dynamic team in the heart of Amsterdam. In this role, you’ll not only craft high-quality games but also take charge of technical leadership on projects, manage direct reports, and help steer our development team to achieve exceptional results.

About CoolGames

Founded in 2010, CoolGames is a leading HTML5-specialized studio based in the historic center of Amsterdam. We’re known for developing high-quality casual games. With the evolving landscape of web based game distribution—spanning Facebook, Discord, Netflix, and beyond—our games are played by millions each month. Our ambitious roadmap for new projects means you’ll have the opportunity to significantly influence our growing portfolio and global success.

About the role

As a Senior Game Developer & Team Lead, you will:

• Mentor & Manage: Directly manage a team of developers (across different game projects), providing mentorship, conflict resolution, and performance management to foster a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
• Lead by Example: You take on the technical lead on a project, ensuring standards, overseeing architecture decisions, and facilitating best practices throughout development.
• Drive Innovation & Ship value: Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members—including game designers, artists, and QA engineers—to develop new titles, evolve existing games, and enhance our internal tooling.
• Ensure Quality & Stability: Write robust, maintainable code while managing your schedule to meet deadlines. Conduct code reviews, optimize performance, debug, and resolve issues across platforms to keep our games stable and performant.
• Champion Solid Game Development Practices: Drive efficiency, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team.

Requirements

What we’re looking for

The ideal candidate is a proactive leader with a proven track record in both game development and leadership responsibilities. You are passionate about delivering high-quality experiences, possess excellent communication skills, and have the ability to give direction effectively while boosting overall team output.

Essential Experience and Skills:

• Technical Expertise: Strong and varied professional programming experience with a strong command of best practices in software development.
• Experience with Relevant Technologies: Experience with web technologies, and proficiency in languages like JavaScript and TypeScript. Familiarity with web game technologies (e.g., PIXI, Phaser, Three.js) is a plus.
  Strong experience in other game engines (e.g. Unity, Unreal, Godot) could also be a fit as long as you’re looking forward to diving into 2d web games!
• Leadership & Mentoring: Demonstrated experience in leading development teams, managing direct reports, and delivering technical guidance on complex (game) projects.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills. You are open to feedback, eager to learn, and thrive in collaborative environments.

Benefits

Working at CoolGames

We are a company which believes it’s important to constantly improve and innovate as we strive to be the best. We work in an informal environment with enthusiastic and smart individuals from all over the world to design and create great games. We have a hybrid work schedule where we strike a balance between face to face collaboration and efficient remote work. 

What we offer:

• A competitive salary.
• Health care insurance, travel compensation, and a company pension plan.
• Sports allowance.
• Opportunities for learning and professional growth.
• Flexibility to work remotely part-time.
• A prime office location in the historic center of Amsterdam.
• High-end work equipment (PC, MacBook Pro, or similar).
• A fun, informal, and globally diverse company culture.

EU candidates only

Are you an ambitious game developer with a passion for creating engaging experiences? Do you want the work you do during your internship to reach millions of players worldwide?

About the opportunity 
We are seeking a talented programming / game development student to join our internship program in the heart of Amsterdam. Collaborate and learn from a multinational team of developers and contribute to creating captivating casual gaming experiences for a global audiences

About CoolGames
Founded in 2010, CoolGames is a leading HTML5-specialized studio based in the historic center of Amsterdam developing high-quality casual games. 

Games distribution via new platforms, beyond the traditional app-stores, is taking off quickly. Players can now instantly start a game from within Facebook, Discord, Netflix and many other ‘Big Tech’ game channels. And even the web is back as a seizable (HTML5 based) games distribution channel, with more people playing via websites each year.

In this changing landscape, where Apple and Google are no longer the sole destinations for casual gamers, CoolGames is successfully publishing high quality HTML5 games that are played by millions every month. For our studio, we have an ambitious roadmap to start the development of new game projects to further expand our portfolio for the years ahead.

About the Internship

You will be part of a multidisciplinary development team collaborating with game designers, game artists, quality assurance engineers, and fellow game developers. You work on developing new titles or evolving existing games.

You work closely with your internship coordinator to get hands on professional experience delivering robust code and meeting established deadlines.

 Next to working on features for our games your responsibilities might include optimisation, debugging, fixing bugs, taking part in code reviews, working with  requirements or working on platform compatibility.

Requirements

About you
You are proactive and thrive on taking ownership and responsibility. You strive to write clean, readable and maintainable code. You are open to feedback and eager to learn. You embrace collaboration and have a ”you can count on me” attitude. You flourish in an environment where teamwork and communication are important.

The right candidate meets most of the following requirements:

• Demonstrable proficiency with at least one programming language;

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development practices;

• Experience with version control tools like git;

• Solid knowledge of development best practices;

• Experience with HTML5 games, Typescript and JavaScript is a plus;

• Experience with web game tech (e.g. PIXI/Phaser/Three.js) is a plus;

Working at CoolGames

We are a company which believes it’s important to constantly improve and innovate as we strive to be the best. We work in an informal environment with enthusiastic and smart individuals from all over the world to design and create great games. We have a hybrid work schedule where we strike a balance between face to face collaboration and efficient remote work. 

Benefits

What we offer

CoolGames offers you an internship where you have the chance to work on awesome products and learn from smart and talented individuals.

• Internship compensation;
• An environment that supports learning and professional growth;
• Flexibility to work remotely part-time;
• An attractive office location in the historic center of Amsterdam;
• A fun, informal and super international company culture.

* EU candidates only *

* Response times may be slower during summer holidays *

Are you passionate about web gaming and looking for an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in game production? CoolGames is looking for a game producer intern with a passion for casual games and web gaming.

As a production intern, you work together with the producers and the teams working on our awesome HTML5 games. You will be part of multiple teams working on live titles, and you will learn from different aspects of game development and publishing. This is a paid internship position. To be eligible, you must be enrolled in a college or university with an internship program located in the Netherlands. 

What will you be doing as a Game Producer Intern?

• You’ll work closely with the game team(s) and game producers;
• Assist in coordinating communication between cross-functional teams, ensuring smooth collaboration and information flow.
• Aid in the creation and maintenance of project plans, task lists, and progress reports to track project milestones and deliverables.
• Help the team in prioritizing and decision-making for live games

Requirements

What do we expect?

• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Asana, Trello or similar tools
• Hands-on experience in either Quality Assurance, Game Art, Game Design or Game Development
• Able to clearly communicate in English. Spoken and written;
• Ability to work at the office in Amsterdam part-time
• Passion for gaming, game development and an eagerness to contribute creative ideas and insights to the team

Benefits

What do we offer?

• Internship compensation fee
• Great office location in the heart of Amsterdam
• Occasional outings and drinks with the company
• High-profile IPs to work with
• An awesome team to work in!

Community Manager internship

CoolGames is looking for a Community Manager intern with a passion for casual games.

When the app-stores were introduced ten years ago, mobile quickly became the largest games platform. And now a new shift is taking place, as millions of people are starting to play and instantly share games with friends via their social or messaging apps, such as via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram….

CoolGames has been a front-runner in this new space and brought many successful games to messaging platforms, including Angry Birds, Battleship and Daily Sudoku, which was the #1 sudoku game on Facebook.

What will you be doing as a Community Management Intern?

• You’ll work closely with the game team(s), game designer and game producers to improve the game;

• You ideate fun ways to keep the community engaged and active;

• Setup, maintain and improve a Discord server for one of our games;

• Create content calendars;

• Promote game updates and new games;

• Post daily/weekly content;

• Keep track of issues coming from the community;

• Support users (respond to questions/complaints);

You will be in charge of posting on our Discord server, Facebook community(s) and game pages. And you will be creating social media profiles/pages for new games where you will post regular updates of our new and live titles.

Requirements

What is your profile? 

• You have great communication skills both in real life and on social platform;

• You are passionate about posts and stories you share on various social media platforms;

• You come up with ideas and write and create and engaging posts working with the art team;

• You have an understanding of social networking and what makes gamers tick;

• You are creative and proactive;

• Social media and creating engagement are your passion.

What do we ask from you? 

• Social media savvy (Familiar and active on at least Discord, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram);

• Familiar with Discord;

• Familiar with Facebook Instant Games and the various social features;

• Basic Technical troubleshooting skills;

• Able to clearly communicate in English. Spoken and written;

• Art experience (photoshop) is a big plus;

• Owning a Discord server or being an admin for a big Discord sevrer is a big plus.

You’re the kind of person who likes to communicate with people and is very active on social media platforms. A natural problem solver, positive and enthusiastic. You enjoy supporting people with complaints as well as keeping them entertained and motivated by sharing content on a regular basis.

Why would you want to work for CoolGames?

CoolGames is a dynamic organization in the gaming world and is located in a beautiful canal house in the center of Amsterdam. You will work in an international environment with young and enthusiastic colleagues. Your colleagues come from all over the world to design and create mobile games. CoolGames is a small organization with short communication lines but with big aspirations resulting in bigger and more elaborate projects and games. Coolgames started 10 years ago as a pioneer in developing games in HTML5. We successfully brought games to messaging platforms, such as Angrybirds, Battleship and Daily Sudoku. You will work in an open and an informal team with a pleasant working environment.

Benefits

What do we offer? 

• A place where you are given the freedom to develop yourself to the maximum;

• An attractive office location in the center of Amsterdam with awesome Friday drinks;

• An open, informal and international company culture. 

— EU CANDIDATES ONLY! —