Join Burny Games — a Ukrainian company that creates mobile puzzle games.
🔥 Our mission: To challenge players’ minds every day with innovative, high-quality gaming experiences.
What makes us proud?
- In just two years, we've launched three successful mobile games worldwide: Playdoku, Colorwood Sort, Colorwood Words. We have paused some projects to focus on making our games better and helping our team improve.
- Our games have been enjoyed by over 10 million players worldwide, and we keep attracting more players.
- We've created a culture where we make decisions based on data, which helps us grow every month.
- We believe in keeping things simple, focusing on creativity, and always searching for new and effective solutions.
What are you working on?
- Genres: Puzzle, Casual
- Platforms: Mobile, iOS, Android, Social
🚀 Top Titles:
🎨 Colorwood Sort – #1 sorting game
📝 Colorwood Words – made in 71 days
🧩 Colorwood Blocks – unique art & gameplay
Playdoku – our first top game
Team size and structure?
100+ employees
Our ideal candidate should have:
- Exceptional level design skills, with the ability to create both simple and complex puzzle levels that feel intentional, purposeful, and emotionally tuned.
- Strong logical and spatial reasoning — able to articulate why a level works (or doesn’t) and how it contributes to the overall player experience.
- Experience working with difficulty curves, pacing, and level placement — not just making levels, but knowing how to arrange them for maximum retention, engagement, and emotional rhythm.
- Solid analytical mindset — capable of interpreting player data, level drop-off charts, and behavioral funnels to drive design decisions.
- Understanding of game economy and balance principles, especially in F2P puzzle games.
- Experience designing for puzzle games [word, logic, block-based, merge, meta-puzzles — not just Match‑3].
- Ability to build hypotheses and test them using live data — this is not about “artistic feeling”, but measurable player impact.
- Comfortable owning a process — from setting design standards, to maintaining difficulty benchmarks, to participating in content roadmap planning.
- Some experience in production, leadership, or team operations is a strong plus — this person will partner closely with producers and content leads.
- Autonomy, ownership, and self-direction — able to zoom in and out between pixel-level detail and big-picture systems.
- English and Ukrainian is a must.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, review, and iterate on puzzle levels across multiple games and genres, ensuring high quality, appropriate challenge, and alignment with product goals.
- Own the difficulty curve and level progression strategy — define how challenge ramps over time and how levels are placed to maximize engagement, retention, and player satisfaction.
- Analyze player behavior and performance metrics
- Establish and maintain internal level design guidelines and standards, including documentation, review checklists, and difficulty scoring systems.
- Mentor and support other level designers, offering feedback, guidance, and systems-level thinking to help them grow and align with the overall vision.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and team scaling.
- Partner with analysts and game designers.
- Work across multiple games as a domain expert and “guardian of structure,” advising on level placement and pacing even in games where others build the content.
- Champion a player-first, data-informed approach to level design, balancing intuition with evidence.
What we offer:
- 100% payment of vacations and sick leave [20 days vacation, 22 days sick leave], medical insurance.
- A team of the best professionals in the games industry.
- Flexible schedule [start of work from 8 to 11, 8 hours/day].
- L&D center with courses.
- Self-learning library, access to paid courses.
- We provide the necessary hardware for work.
The recruitment process:
CV review → Interview with Talent Acquisition Manager → Interview with Hiring Manager → Test Task → Interview with CEO → Job Offer.
If you share our goals and values and are eager to join a team of dedicated professionals, we invite you to take the next step.
