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Lightspeed Studios in Greater London is looking for an experienced professional to join the GRC team focusing on GaaS product development. The role involves leading product evaluations, understanding economy systems, and designing monetization strategies. Candidates should have over 5 years in the GaaS industry, experience in launching successful products, and a strong business-level proficiency in English.

Collaboration with cross-functional teams and data-driven analysis are key. The position allows for potential overseas placements.

Business Unit Tencent Games was established in 2003. We are a leading global platform for game development, operations and publishing, and the largest online game community in China. Tencent Games has developed and operated over 140 games. We provide cross‑platform interactive entertainment experience for more than 800 million users in over 200 countries and regions around the world. Honor of Kings, PUBG MOBILE, and League of Legends, are some of our most popular titles around the world. Meanwhile, we actively promote the development of esports industry, work with global partners to build an opening, collaborative and symbiotic industrial ecology, and create high‑quality digital life experiences for players.

About the Hiring Team Game Research Center (GRC) is a department focusing on game industry study, game analysis, game design research, data analysis and game development supporting. We’re one of the world’s leading research facilities in game industry, building a global knowledge tank to help our teams make better decisions. We’re looking for innovative and passionate team members who love all kinds of games and have insight about the challenging global market.

This position sits within the GRC team. Its core objective is to introduce an international expert with leading narrative design experience to develop systematic narrative capabilities, establish content strategy methodologies, and provide narrative empowerment for key projects.

1. Market Research & Narrative Trend Insights

   Continuously track global narrative design trends, including branching narratives, immersive storytelling, and narrative systems. Analyse top global narrative works (across GaaS, console, PC, and mobile) and extract replicable creative frameworks. Produce strategic narrative insights, market structure analyses, and player preference reports for senior management and project teams.

2. Narrative System Design & Project Enablement

   Serve as the core narrative expert, providing guidance on story structure, character frameworks, worldbuilding, and narrative style for key projects. Review prototypes, key milestones, and narrative versions, delivering actionable narrative optimisation recommendations. Support teams in building systematic narrative toolchains (narrative pacing, chapter planning, dialogue systems, branching structures, etc.). Guide teams in improving narrative consistency, character depth, and emotional pacing within gameplay.

3. Methodology Development & Capability Building

   Develop narrative evaluation frameworks, including narrative experience assessment standards, pacing models, character strategies and worldbuilding logic systems. Consolidate best practices from successful projects into internal playbooks, toolkits, and case libraries. Enhance company‑wide narrative capabilities through trainings, workshops and public lectures.

4. Cross‑Team Collaboration & Strategic Support

   Collaborate closely with project teams, producers, marketing and user research to ensure narrative design aligns with overall product strategy. Provide opportunity assessment and investment recommendations for narrative‑driven genres to strategy teams. Support key project decision points by offering narrative perspectives that help build team alignment.

1. Experience Background

   8+ years of experience in game narrative design. Served as a core narrative designer or Lead Narrative Designer on successful or highly reputable narrative projects. Candidates with award‑winning narrative works, industry award nominations or teaching experience in universities/industry platforms are preferred. Familiar with narrative structures across RPG, action, adventure and GaaS genres.

2. Professional Skills

   Capable of independently building worldviews, character systems, plot structures and narrative pacing. Understands narrative‑system integration and can create effective links between gameplay and narrative. Able to assess narrative experience quality and break down the core logic of successful works. Familiar with cross‑cultural narrative expression and localisation requirements.

3. General Skills

   Strong communication abilities; able to clearly articulate narrative strategies and design intent to diverse stakeholders. Strong logical reasoning and structured thinking. Cross‑cultural collaboration experience is a plus.

4. Language & Location

   Strong business‑level English proficiency is essential. Open to being based overseas or maintaining long‑term collaboration with overseas projects (NL/UK).

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent: As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

Lightspeed Studios is seeking a Narrative Design Expert to join the Game Research Center team in London. The role focuses on developing narrative capabilities, providing narrative guidance for key projects, and tracking global narrative trends.

Applicants should have over 8 years of experience in narrative design, a strong understanding of RPG and GaaS genres, and excellent communication skills. The position offers the opportunity to work with global teams and contribute to innovative game design.

What the Role Entails

The position sits within the GRC team. Its core objective is to bring in an expert with mature GaaS product experience to provide systematic methodologies and project enablement in long-term live product content planning, economy systems, monetization strategy, and lifecycle management.

1. Market Research & GaaS Trend Insights: Continuously track global GaaS trends, including long-term content structures, seasonal systems, economy design, and growth models. Conduct systematic analyses of top global GaaS products to summarize success factors, business models, and design frameworks. Produce industry analyses and growth insights for senior leadership and project teams.
2. Product Evaluation & Project Enablement: Provide expert guidance on economy systems, monetization structures, content pacing, retention, and growth strategies for key GaaS projects. Participate in prototype reviews, key milestone assessments, and Soft Launch evaluations, delivering actionable optimization paths. Support projects in building long-term content planning (LTV structure, seasonal templates, event systems, monetization touchpoints, etc.). Assist teams in assessing monetization risks, balance issues, and growth opportunities.
3. Methodology & Framework Development: Build GaaS evaluation systems, including economy system frameworks, long-term content planning templates, and monetization assessment models. Consolidate best practices from successful GaaS projects into reusable internal standards and tools. Enhance team-wide GaaS strategic capabilities through trainings, workshops, and case studies.
4. Cross-Team Collaboration & Strategic Support: Collaborate closely with producers, data teams, monetization teams, and growth teams to drive GaaS strategies into execution. Provide opportunity assessments and investment recommendations for GaaS categories to strategy teams. Support major project decision points by offering monetization and growth perspectives.

Experience Background

5+ years of experience in GaaS, economy design, or monetization design. Proven experience launching GaaS products, serving as a core or lead designer (Lead Designer / Economy Lead / Monetization Lead). Familiarity with mainstream GaaS genres such as shooters, RPGs, strategy, competitive titles, and social MMO.

Professional Skills

Able to design complete economy systems, monetization structures, seasonal systems, and event loops. Strong understanding of monetization models including IAP, Battle Pass, Gacha, Cosmetic systems, and Subscription models. Capable of designing long-term retention structures (LTV, loops, content cadence, etc.). Able to break down growth mechanisms of leading GaaS titles and develop structured methodologies.

General Skills

Strong cross-team collaboration and structured communication capabilities. Data-driven mindset, able to make high-quality judgments under uncertainty. Cross-cultural collaboration experience is a plus.

Language & Location

Strong business-level English proficiency is essential. Open to overseas placement or long-term collaboration with overseas teams (NL/UK).

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

Lightspeed Studios is seeking a seasoned backend developer with 8+ years of experience, including 5 years in the gaming industry. The role involves providing technical support for overseas game projects, developing online services, and collaborating with global teams.

The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, possess excellent communication skills, and demonstrate proficiency in programming languages like C++ or Golang. Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud platforms is essential. This position supports a diverse work environment.

About the Hiring Team

Level Infinite is Tencent’s global gaming brand. It is a global game publisher offering a comprehensive network of services for games, development teams, and studios around the world. We are dedicated to delivering engaging and original gaming experiences to a worldwide audience, whenever and wherever they choose to play while building a community that fosters inclusivity, connection, and accessibility. Level Infinite also provides a wide range of services and resources to our network of developers and partner studios around the world to help them unlock the true potential of their games.

• Technical Support for Overseas Game Projects: Provide technical support for major overseas game projects. Analyze backend server architecture, data storage, and network communication based on game business characteristics. Offer customized technical solutions to optimize overall backend performance and stability.
• Online Service Development and Maintenance: Participate in building Online Services for games (such as login, matchmaking, real‑time battles, data synchronization). Ensure high availability and low latency to support stable global player access.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Collaborate with top‑tier global game studio teams to drive technical solution optimization and implementation. Organize and participate in technical discussions to promote communication and collaboration with game studios.

1. 8+ years of backend development experience, including 5+ years in the gaming industry.
2. Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field.
3. Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate across time zones.
4. Passion for technology, quick learning ability, and a knack for solving complex problems.
5. Proficient in English; proficiency in Mandarin Chinese is a plus (but not required).
6. Proficient in at least one programming language (expertise in C++ or Golang is preferred), with strong experience in threads, coroutines, and building high‑performance, high‑concurrency, and highly available systems.
7. Familiar with distributed systems and core backend technologies such as microservices architecture, message queues (such as Kafka/RabbitMQ), and service discovery (such as Etcd/ZooKeeper).
8. Experienced with both SQL (such as MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (such as Redis/MongoDB) databases, including performance optimization.
9. Familiar with game backend architecture (e.g., matchmaking, real‑time battles, network synchronization).
10. Candidates with Unreal Engine development experience are preferred.
11. Practical experience with cloud platforms (such as AWS/GCP/Azure), understanding their mainstream services and architectures, and capable of designing backend systems based on actual application scenarios.
12. Experience with common CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, etc.

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

Lightspeed Studios is looking for a subject-matter expert in IT to collaborate with global teams and deliver robust cloud solutions for their gaming business in Europe. The role emphasizes customer satisfaction and technical advisory in cloud infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is self-motivated, a quick learner, and passionate about innovative technology. This position offers opportunities to work in a dynamic environment and contribute to enhancing IT solutions.

Lightspeed Studios is looking for a Sr. AI Software Engineer to lead the development of an innovative in-house AI Coding Agent. This role will significantly enhance our game studios' development pipelines by providing intelligent code generation and advanced debugging capabilities.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, especially in Python, TypeScript, C++, and C#. A background in game development with experience in the development of AI systems is preferred. Join us at Lightspeed Studios and help us shape the future of gaming.

About the Hiring Team: Tencent Overseas IT is dedicated to empowering Tencent’s rapid global growth with future‑ready, global IT platforms, applications and services. We lead the overseas IT strategy, architecture, roadmap, and execution to satisfy internal and external customers while building a world‑class global IT team.

We are seeking a Sr. AI Software Engineer to architect and lead the development of a groundbreaking in‑house AI Coding Agent. This tool will act as a force multiplier for our game studios’ development pipelines, accelerating our developers by providing intelligent code generation, in‑depth code inspection, and advanced debugging capabilities.

• Architect and lead the development of a robust, scalable AI Coding Agent tailored to our game development workflows (primarily for UE/Unity‑based games in C++, C#, and other relevant languages).
• Integrate the AI agent directly into developer IDEs (like Visual Studio, VS Code) and our game engines (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity).
• Collaborate closely with game developers, technical artists, and engine programmers to gather requirements, understand pain points, and iterate on the tool's features.
• Optimize model inference speed and resource usage to ensure the agent is fast and responsive without hindering developer workstations.
• Mentor other engineers on the team and establish best practices for AI development, agentic RAG and agent‑based architectures.
• Stay current with the latest research in AI, code generation, and LLMs to continuously improve the agent's capabilities.

• Customer‑oriented and able to thrive in a fast‑paced environment.
• Positive, self‑motivated, and passionate.
• Independent, insistent, and open‑minded.
• Great team player, dependable and autonomous.
• Data‑driven decision maker.

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong background in Python, TypeScript, C++, or C#.
• Proven experience building complex AI systems, with hands‑on expertise in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI Agent architectures.
• Deep, hands‑on experience with LLM APIs and/or fine‑tuning and serving open‑source models.
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering and context engineering to maximize model relevance and accuracy.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to work on complex, ambiguous projects, delivering results in a fast‑paced environment.
• Experience with observability, performance optimization, and production incident response.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Direct experience building a Coding Agent or similar developer‑facing AI tool (IDE plugins, CLI, etc.).
• Experience in the game development industry or with game engines (Unreal, Unity).

Equal Employment Opportunity: At Tencent, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and community. We foster an environment where every employee feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

Tencent is a world‑leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life for people around the world.