Are you an experienced Technical Artist up for innovating game art pipelines, building intuitive tools and creating scalable solutions? Ready to join one of Europe's fastest growing game companies?

If yes, Metacore could be the right place for you

We are a game company from Helsinki, now also expanding to Berlin, best known for our hit game Merge Mansion and our people-first company culture. Built on trust, our culture allows us to work autonomously, efficiently, and ambitiously. We have mutually agreed on five cultural norms to describe how we build trust and work as Metacore – you can find them here.

Our company’s mission is to entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades. Although we already entertain 50M+ players worldwide and have grown into a team of 170+ game industry professionals in less than three years, we’re only getting started. That’s where we hope you come in: to develop the game art pipeline and drive visual improvements from a technical perspective. You will define, evaluate and revamp existing content as well as create intuitive and scalable solutions to help us expand the game world of Merge Mansion.

Basics

• Location: Helsinki, Finland
• Relocation: Relocating to Finland expected, full support provided
• Remote work: Hybrid model of office and remote work
• Start date: Flexible, ideally as soon as possible
• Working language: English

Responsibilities

Technical Artist plays a key role in innovating game art pipelines and improving visuals from a technical perspective for Merge Mansion. You will enable game artists, designers and developers to work efficiently and effectively to deliver top quality 2D and 3D content for the game. In practice, this means (at least) the following:

• Working with and developing the existing art pipeline
• Identifying production improvement opportunities from a technical art perspective, helping foresight potential issues, and offering different solutions to solve them
• Creating scalable solutions for expanding Merge Mansion’s game world
• Collaborating closely with Artists, Designers and Developers
• Driving visual improvements from the perspective of technical art
• Implementing in-game art
• Maintaining technical documentation

Requirements

Every role is eventually shaped to match our unique passions, backgrounds and strengths. Here are some of the key skills and experience you should already have when joining Metacore as a Technical Artist:

• Previous experience working as a technical artist or in a similar cross-disciplinary role, and a good understanding of the technologies used in game development, especially graphics and tools
• Knack for troubleshooting and solving tricky technical problems as well as anticipating issues that might emerge when operating a live game product
• Strong Unity skills – you’re quick to digest existing code and feel comfortable using advanced Unity Editor features
• Proactive self-starter with a high sense of ownership
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills that enables you to cooperate with different people

In addition to these, it would be nice but not mandatory for you to know these as well:

• Blender
• Rigging
• Shaders
• Spine
• Scripting in Python or Javascript

Sounds about right? Then let’s talk! APPLY HERE

About Metacore

Our company is formed by great teams and individuals. Together, we work rather as Metacore than for Metacore – aiming for the same goal of entertaining our audience with world-class mobile games. As Metacore, we’re much more than the sum of our skills, experiences and knowledge.

Our Culture

Metacore is the game company where players are the closest thing to a boss. In other words, our teams and individuals enjoy a lot of freedom and responsibility in their work. Everyone can find the optimal way for reaching their goals – as long as it respects our company culture.