Are you a VFX Artist who thrives on blending artistic sensibility with technical precision to create effects seen by millions of players worldwide?
Join the Golf Rival team and help elevate the visual experience of one of the leading mobile golf games.
THE DIFFERENCE YOU’LL MAKE:
- In this role, you will craft impactful, polished real-time effects that enhance gameplay clarity and overall game feel. From satisfying hit impacts and reward moments to UI feedback, your work will directly shape how players experience the game moment to moment.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Design and implement real-time VFX for gameplay, UI, and environments using Unity’s toolset
- Contribute to VFX concepts and visual direction, while fully owning production, implementation, iteration, and final polish
- Maintain visual consistency across gameplay and UI, according to the game's visual pillars
- Create and tweak custom meshes, textures, shaders, animations and particle systems
- Optimize VFX for mobile performance (CPU, GPU, memory, overdraw, batching)
- Debug and resolve visual or performance-related issues tied to effects
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:
- You’ll collaborate closely with art directors, artists, designers, and engineers while taking ownership of implementation, iteration, optimization, and final polish- ensuring VFX are visually compelling and perform well across a wide range of mobile devices.
- You’ll also be part of a wider art community at Nordeus, where sharing, learning, and leveling up your craft is part of everyday life.
WE ARE A MATCH IF YOU:
- Have a strong artistic eye for timing, motion, color, and readability
- Have great skills in Unity (Particle System, Shader Graph, Animations)
- Are proficient in 3D modeling/animation software (Maya, Blender, 3ds Max)
- Have the ability to build scalable, reusable VFX systems that perform across a wide range of mobile devices
- Have a solid understanding of mobile performance constraints
- Communicate clearly around technical constraints, trade-offs, and proposed solutions
- Have a collaborative mindset and actively participate in reviews- you are ready to give and receive constructive feedback
- Have ownership and independence in debugging, refining, and optimizing your work
BONUS POINTS:
- Experience in shipping mobile titles (especially live-ops games)
- Basic scripting knowledge (C#, HLSL)
- Familiarity with profiling tools (Unity Profiler, Frame Debugger)
- Experience creating VFX style guides, documentation, or shared effect libraries
WE CAN’T WAIT TO MEET YOU, SO DON’T FORGET TO:
- Send us your portfolio featuring your best work
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE:
- The team behind the game: transparency and trust from day one, paired with a strong sense of teamwork- that's the essence of who we are. It's not just what you do - it’s how you do it and who you do it with. With 280+ teammates from around the world, we’re on a mission to bring the joy of winning to millions.
- We make your life at Nordeus hassle-free: enjoy Nordeus provided breakfast, lunch, snacks, and beverages, a fully-equipped gym, organized sports activities (yoga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, basketball, football), an ergonomic workstation, top-notch tech equipment (including laptop, mobile phone and bill coverage, and other tech), a kids’ playroom, a music corner, board and video games + latest consoles.
- Perks? We’ve got plenty: premium private medical insurance for you and your family, flexible working hours, take-what-you-need vacation policy, offsites abroad for the whole company, fully-paid maternity and paternity leave, employee stock purchase plan, access to L&D platforms and opportunities and many more.
- Make your mark on games played by millions: with over 300M registered users, Top Eleven is the world’s most successful football management game. Golf Rival, with more than 60M registered users, is the #2 mobile golf game, aiming to claim the top spot. With one more game in the works, we are continuing our efforts to create powerful mobile sports gaming experiences built to last.
- Meaningful career experience: work with experienced game makers and mentors who will support you from day one, helping you map a career path that's true to you.
- Impact beyond the screen: It is not just about us. We are part of something bigger than a job. We create a better future for generations to come through the efforts of the Nordeus Foundation.
GOOD TO KNOW:
- This is a hybrid, on-site position based in Belgrade.