Lead Level Designer (Match-3, Mobile & VR)

Avantaj Prim is an IT company that develops fintech services and gaming projects for PC, Mobile, and VR/AR platforms.
We are residents of the IT Park, have been operating in the market for more than 20 years, and already have over 100 specialists on our team.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing content strategy and level design pipelines.
• Defining the taxonomy of levels and objectives.
• Conducting competitor analysis and comparison. Preparing structured documents and presentations using visualization tools such as Miro, Figma, Notion, and Google Slides to clearly illustrate interaction chains and game systems.
• Designing and implementing new game mechanics.
• Testing mechanics and levels, analyzing data, and improving based on metrics and player feedback.
• Acting as a liaison between the game designer, level designers, and analysts to ensure a cohesive and balanced gameplay experience.
• Building difficulty curves and progression for boosters and obstacles: goals, move limits, no-match limits, and anti-frustration mechanics.
• Constructing levels using tile/blocker sets, generators, and spawn tables.
• Setting up event telemetry, conducting A/B tests of variations.
• Working with the level editor (Unity custom tools).
• Preparing QA specifications, writing test cases for solvability and edge cases, supporting releases, and tracking regressions.
• Linking levels with meta-economy, seasonal events, and quests.
• Planning content drops and rotations, maintaining a level backlog and release calendar.

We expect from the candidate

• 4+ years in game design, including 2+ years in F2P level design; participation in commercial project releases (portfolio/links required).
• Understanding of Match-3 mechanics: board generation, match priorities, chain reactions, boosters/super combos, blockers and their synergies.
• Confident in Unity (level editor, ScriptableObjects, prefabs).
• Experience with data-driven balancing: Google Sheets/Excel (ETR/WR models), A/B testing, dashboard analysis (Amplitude/GameAnalytics/Firebase).
• Experience building a quality control pipeline for levels: checklists, solvability verification, version control (Git/Perforce), Jira/Confluence.
• Initiative in proposing ideas that enhance gameplay experience and player retention.

Nice to have

• Experience creating custom tools for the Unity level editor (Unity Editor tooling), basic Python scripts for parsing/validation.
• Knowledge of F2P monetization principles (energy, saves, offers) and their connection between level ↔ offer/event.
• Experience with VR/XR hand-tracking (Meta XR, OpenXR), and tuning haptics/spatial audio for state readability.
• Familiarity with AI/PCG tools for generating or pre-laying out levels and providing balance suggestions.

We offer

• Office in the city center of Chișinău.
• Corporate and team-building events for employees.
• IT Park membership: official employment, 28 calendar days of paid vacation, and paid sick leave.
• Annual salary review.
• Drinks, free coffee, tea, and fresh fruit.
• Modern equipment for work.
• Relax zone in the office.
• Corporate library.
• Gym membership compensation.
• Lunch vouchers (Up Dejun).

If you want to join our team, please send your CV to jobs@avantajprim.com — we’re looking forward to meeting you!