Lead AI Data & Analytics Engineer
Goodgame Studios14 days ago
Remote, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and operate the end-to-end gameplay analytics ecosystem.
- Define tracking, storage, processing, reporting, and analytics architecture for a new mobile game.
- Build the warehouse, pipelines, data models, semantic layer, dashboards, and automated reporting foundation.
- Develop AI-driven insight-generation and analytics workflows using agents and AI tools.
- Evaluate agentic workflows and review AI-generated code, queries, and analytics before production.
- Own data correctness, quality checks, anomaly investigation, system reliability, and independent verification.
- Generate actionable insights on gameplay, monetization, attribution, player behavior, trends, and risks.
- Support product, balancing, design, and leadership teams with data-driven recommendations.
- Establish standards for agentic tooling, review processes, quality gates, and implementation quality across engineering.
Requirements
- Experience building an analytics or data platform from scratch, including selecting the stack, setting up the warehouse and pipelines, and taking the platform into production.
- Several years of experience building analytics or data-driven systems in production environments.
- Experience with analytics for free-to-play mobile games, ideally including a soft launch or global launch.
- Production experience using LLMs, agents, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and agentic analytics tools.
- Ability to explain prompt and context design, autonomous and multi-agent workflows, intervention points, MCP servers, custom tools, skills, subagents, and review practices.
- Strong experience working with behavioral, transactional, or event-based datasets and deriving actionable insights.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Experience designing scalable data architectures, pipelines, data models, dashboards, analytical frameworks, or automated insight-generation systems.
- Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms and storage.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into precise analytical problems.
- Strong data-quality, reliability, independent-verification, and analytical-decomposition skills.
- Ability to operate independently, drive initiatives from concept to production, and own outcomes.
- Excellent English communication skills and passion for gaming.
- Preferred experience includes monetization, economy, LiveOps analytics, event-driven or streaming architectures, real-time telemetry, anti-cheat or anomaly-detection systems, and published or shared agentic-workflow work.
Benefits
- The role is based at the studio in Hamburg, Germany.
- Applications from international candidates are welcomed.
- English is the working language.
- The position offers a greenfield build opportunity spanning concept through production.
About Goodgame Studios
Goodgame Studios builds free-to-play mobile and browser games for a global audience, monetized through in-app purchases and live operations. Its portfolio includes long-running titles such as Goodgame Empire, Empire: Four Kingdoms, and Big Farm, which it develops and self-publishes. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Hamburg, the company is a subsidiary of Sweden’s Stillfront Group.