Role Description A brilliant game concept and a perfect math model mean nothing if the client-side execution isn't liquid-smooth. We aren’t looking for a standard web developer who just builds static layouts and basic forms. We need a "Kinetic Interface Engineer" to bring our entire iGaming pipeline to life across desktop and mobile browsers. Your job is to take raw visual assets, audio cues, and server-side logic, and fuse them into spectacular, high-performance casino games that run flawlessly at 60 frames per second. You will step directly into an elite, highly collaborative team environment, working shoulder-to-shoulder with product owners, digital artists, sound designers, backend engineers, and mathematicians. Your focus is the absolute frontier of browser-based gaming: - Making graphics pop with striking animations - Managing relentless game flow - Implementing crisp mechanics that react instantly to our game servers If you view browser performance as a high-stakes puzzle and have the drive to build the slickest player experiences on the web, your canvas is ready. Qualifications - Proven experience building rich, highly animated interactive web content, premium digital animations, or browser-based games. - Deep intuition for cross-browser constraints, touch event handling, responsive scaling logic, and mobile asset optimization limitations. - Exceptional communication skills and an ego-free approach to working inside a high-speed, multi-disciplinary development loop. - Self-motivated and highly structured; you write clean code, manage your asset pipeline meticulously, and can drive features across the finish line without constant supervision. Requirements - Architect, develop, and maintain high-fidelity, cross-browser casino games optimized flawlessly for both desktop and mobile viewports. - Take static visual assets and breathe immediate life into them utilizing advanced rendering, particle effects, and high-performance animation timelines. - Connect client-side interfaces smoothly to our core game servers, orchestrating real-time state changes, payout reveals, and audio-visual synchronization based on incoming server data packets. - Partner actively as a core technical driver within a cross-disciplinary squad—ensuring game artwork, audio streams, and mathematical logic are unified perfectly in the final build. - Ruthlessly profile memory usage, minimize draw calls, optimize asset loading sheets, and squash layout shifts to guarantee blazing-fast execution across global cellular networks. - Write clean, modular, and self-documenting code layouts, ensuring our game engine patterns remain scalable, predictable, and ready for rapid deployment cycles. Benefits - Extreme Technical Autonomy: We value clean execution, performance wins, and innovative code architecture over red tape. - Global Stage: Your visual execution, animations, and code loops will instantly face a worldwide audience, commanding the entertainment experience for thousands of active players every single second. - A Culture of Pure Momentum: Join an elite squad that moves at lightspeed, constantly building and testing fresh gameplay mechanics. - High-Growth Upside: For a Game Developer who consistently delivers uncompromised game flow and scales our front-end capacity, there is a clear, unrestricted runway to lead our entire client-side engineering organization. Operational Details - Location: Fully Remote. - Schedule: On-call 7 days a week (Requires high flexibility to align with real-time launch windows, global code releases, and system updates). - Payment: All compensation is processed in digital assets (USDC/USDT).

• Support, collaborate, and innovate solutions to improve gameplay readability, storytelling and design mechanics using animation with lean direction and support. • A strong understanding of authoring and implementing key-frame animation for characters, creatures, and other assets. • A gameplay-first focus. The ability to rapidly prototype and iterate on an animation to get the perfect gameplay fee. • Champion Character, Controls, and Camera principals and apply them to both 1st and 3rd person views. • Created and maintained animation workflows, pipelines, and processes for first and/or third person action games (preferably shooters) using Maya/Max/MotionBuilder, and implemented them in Unreal. • A knack for creating and maintaining animation documentation. • A desire to share your techniques and mentor folks.

• Design and architect the mobile client (iOS/Android) for a greenfield consumer rewards application. • Develop highly engaging, gamified UI/UX components including daily streak mechanics, dynamic offer walls, progress trackers, and real-time wallet balances. • Connect the consumer app directly into Unity’s backend event-pipelines and ML attribution models. • Architect robust on-device state management that handles virtual currencies, ledger updates, and offline/online syncing. • Work alongside ML and backend teams to implement secure event tracking. • Mentor senior mobile engineers, set the standard for code quality, and define release pipelines.

Title: Gameplay Animator (Senior+/Lead) Location: Troy, NY and Toronto, ON. Hybrid Art Full time Job Description: At Velan Studios, we foster a culture of curiosity. Our games embrace diversity and are fueled by the adventurous spirit of our team. We are the creative minds behind titles like Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, Knockout City, Hot Wheels Rift Rally, Midnight Murder Club as well as the VR game Bounce Arcade, and our journey continues! Our studio's mission is to pioneer groundbreaking gaming experiences and reimagine play in new ways. We're committed to pushing the boundaries of traditional gaming, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, and revolutionizing the industry one game at a time. We are looking for a Senior Gameplay Animator with the experience and passion to drive our gameplay mechanics to the next level. You’ll play a key role in defining how our characters move, respond and feel, crafting animation that’s both expressive and tightly integrated with gameplay. You should be equally comfortable working in a small, fast-paced prototyping team as you are creating polished, production-quality animation for larger projects. You will be actively collaborating with artists, engineers and designers to develop amazing gameplay feel. And your passion for bringing characters to life should only be matched by your love of diving into engine to bring all your animations together for an unforgettable gameplay experience. Senior Gameplay Animator Responsibilities - Help define and drive the game’s animation style with expressive, solid body mechanics that makes gameplay feel amazing. - Take ownership of the full gameplay animation process, from rough prototypes to polished game performances. - Drive in-engine development with excellent engine competency, including animation systems, state machines and other procedural animation techniques. - Collaborate with designers and engineers to explore new ideas, solve tricky gameplay challenges, and push what’s possible through animation. - Document tools and workflows. - Mentor other animators, offering feedback, guidance, and support. - Champion animation across the studio — always pushing for clarity, responsiveness, and that breath of life within every press of a button. - Project Lead role based on project* What is expected of an Art Lead at Velan Studios? Lead roles are assigned on a per-project basis and not tied directly to the level of an employee’s position. Leads champion best practices that relate to their area of expertise but also represent all aspects of it in interdisciplinary discussions regarding scope, planning, tools, features and team updates. As the project matures, leads may also be part of hiring and mentoring of any additional artists that might be needed within their field to accomplish project goals in a timely manner and to a high level of quality. Leads may also be expected to help assess their performance and aid in their career development. Requirements - 7+ years of professional experience animating for games, with a focus on gameplay. - A standout demo reel that shows clear body mechanics, timing, and personality. - Expert in Maya or equivalent 3D animation software. - Hands-on experience working in-engine, with focus on general state machine structures. - Proactive and self-directed, with a good sense of when to explore and when to get things done. - Able to effectively communicate technical needs and issues to Engineering/Tech Art/Design. - Above all, deeply curious and passionate about creating responsive, character forward animation that makes gameplay feel amazing. Big Pluses - Experience leading small animation teams or driving animation direction - Reel should include game or engine captures of your animations in gameplay context. - Familiarity with motion matching, procedural animation, or other modern runtime techniques. - Generalist skills in modeling, rigging, or related areas. - A passion for game design and how animation supports player feedback, pacing, and readability - Experience with motion capture. - Basic scripting or tool-building experience (Python, MEL, or similar) to streamline workflows or prototype ideas. This is a hybrid or onsite position. Hybrid is 3 days a week in studio. Our studios are located in Troy, NY and Toronto, ON. The salary for this position is typically within the range specified below* per year. Please note that the actual base pay may vary based on factors such as your qualifications, skills, experience, and other relevant considerations. In addition to your salary, our comprehensive compensation package includes various perks, such as potential annual bonuses (though they are not guaranteed), health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and flexible time-off benefits. Canada Salary Ranges Senior: $85,000. - $120,000. CAD Specialist: $110,000.-$150,000. CAD Velan Studios is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to submit a General Application. Velan Studios is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion, diversity, and providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. We seek to create a work culture that matches the diversity of our players.