Jobs

(Amsterdam on-site – you will work 16-20 hours per week spread over 4 days at the office)

Are you a super organized, pro-active go-getter and do you like to get things done around an office space filled with great people?  Then we have the perfect opportunity for you to help run our dynamic office in Amsterdam. Are you ready to become the beating heart of a fast-growing, international, and dynamic gaming company?

About the role  

As our Office Manager, you keep our Amsterdam office running smoothly and make sure our workplace is a welcoming, inspiring environment for the entire team. From office vibes to event planning — you’re the one who brings structure, energy, and creativity to our everyday operations

Your responsibilities will include:

• You act as the ‘face’ of the company;  greeting visitors;
• You are responsible for organization, cleanliness, and physical appearance of our office;
• You make sure that everything is ordered on time (for example weekly flowers, soda for the fridge and coffee); 
• Organizing and coordinating company events, like the Christmas party, movie nights, team drinks and anniversaries;
• Handling incoming and outgoing mail and arranging package shipments;
• Sharing internal announcements and updates on Slack;
• Organising a bi-weekly lunch and light facility tasks (such as loading and unloading the dishwasher);
• You are the key contact for suppliers;
• Managing and ordering office en catering supplies, equipment and furniture;
• Coordinating cleaning services and keeping the office tidy and presentable;
• Acting as the main point of contact for suppliers and external vendors;
• You keep storage rooms organized;
• You assist ad hoc with various administrative tasks for the HR department;
• You will work 16-20 hours per week spread over 4 days.

As our Office Manager you will work closely with everyone in the company. You will be reporting to HR.

Requirements

About you

You enjoy supporting the team and take pride in helping to run operations smoothly;

You are organized, service-oriented, and thrive on variety. You enjoy supporting colleagues, coming up with creative ideas, and taking care of practical tasks. In addition, you bring:

• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and eye for detail;
• A proactive attitude and a strong sense of hospitality;
• Affinity with event planning and internal communication;
• A professional and welcoming appearance;
• You are able to project manage multiple projects simultaneously;
• You are fluent in Dutch and English in speech and writing;
• You live in or nearby Amsterdam.

Benefits

What we can offer you

• An international team of 50+ professionals from almost 20 different countries;
• Work closely with some of the biggest (upcoming) game platforms in the world (netflix, facebook, microsoft, samsung, discord and more) on high-quality casual games that are played by millions of gamers;
• Competitive remuneration, including health care insurance, travel costs compensation, a company pension plan and a sport allowance;
• Market salary;
• A very open, informal and international company culture where everyone can make a difference.

About CoolGames

At CoolGames, we’re proud to be a leading international HTML5 game studio, working with some of the world’s biggest ‘Big Tech’ game platforms, such as Netflix, Discord, Facebook and Microsoft Play. We also work with famous games IP such as Battleship, Angry Birds and Monopoly.  

CoolGames is part of Keesing, the world’s largest Braintainment company. Keesing is a financially strong publisher of engaging sudokus, crosswords and many other puzzles & games with a presence in over 20 countries headquartered in The Netherlands. 

With the CoolGames HQ in Amsterdam, supported by our global remote teams, we offer market-competitive salaries, the chance to contribute to successful casual games that are played by millions and work directly with some of the biggest brands in the world. We believe in creativity, collaboration and delivering world-class gaming experiences, while giving you the choice to either join our Amsterdam studio or become part of our remote teams.

If you want to grow your career in a profitable, internationally recognized company, work closely with world-famous partners and be part of a highly professional international team – CoolGames is the right place for you.

(32 – 40 hours, hybrid – Amsterdam)

Are you an experienced game developer who enjoys solving deep technical challenges, mentoring others, and shaping the direction of our game client technology? Do you want your work, and your leadership, to impact millions of players worldwide?

Join CoolGames as our new Lead Game Developer and help drive the future of highly scalable, high-quality web games.

About the Role

As our Lead Game Developer, you will take ownership of the client-side technology powering our games. You will mentor the developers in your team, guide technical decision-making, and help elevate engineering quality across multiple projects.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you will help solve the hardest challenges in modern web game development, and set the technical direction for our HTML5 engine/tooling ecosystem.

You will collaborate closely with game developers, designers, artists, QA engineers, backend engineers, and platform specialists. You help the team deliver on time, maintain high quality, and continuously improve codebases, workflows, and cross-team collaboration.

A big part of the role is building people up: setting clear expectations, coaching team members, giving direct feedback, and helping them grow into more autonomous, dependable contributors. 

You keep delivery predictable and the technical vision aligned with business needs.

What You Will Do

Technical Leadership

• Own the client-side game tech stack, architecture, standards, quality, and long-term evolution.
• Make and guide high-impact technical decisions (performance, architecture, platform compatibility, tooling, rendering, state management).
• Dive into the most complex, technical, or ambiguous problems and lead the path to solutions.
• Ensure technical design discussions are structured, realistic, and aligned with constraints and business priorities.
• Identify risks early and work with producers and leads to maintain predictable delivery.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Set clear expectations for developers and ensure alignment through ongoing direct conversations.
• Give timely and constructive feedback,  both when expectations are exceeded and when they are not met.
• Coach developers in ownership, quality, problem-solving, and professional habits.
• Delegate effectively: give people responsibility that helps them grow while ensuring delivery stays on track.
• Support a culture where team members raise issues early, think in solutions, and stay part of the problem-solving process.

Hands-on Game Development

• Help the team to implement, optimise, debug, and maintain core client features across our portfolio of HTML5 games.
• Work closely with QA to ensure releases are stable, performant, and meet player experience expectations.
• Review code, review requirements, and contribute to the ongoing improvement of engineering processes and internal tooling.
• Collaborate with backend and platform teams to ensure smooth integration and platform compatibility.
• Ensure our games run reliably across different browsers, platforms, and performance profiles.

Requirements

About you

You combine deep technical experience with strong leadership instincts. You take ownership, communicate clearly, and raise issues early. You are dependable, pragmatic, and comfortable making decisive calls when needed. You understand the reality of commercial game development and know how to balance quality with delivery.

Your colleagues would describe you as someone they can rely on, as someone who listens, builds clarity, and helps others succeed.

You Are a Strong Fit If You Have:

• 7+ years of professional programming experience, ideally in game development
• Full-stack understanding of HTML5 game development 
• Extensive experience with JavaScript / TypeScript and web rendering frameworks (Any of these: Cocos2d, PIXI, Phaser, Three.js, or similar).
• Strong architectural skills with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• A track record of mentoring or guiding other developers.
• Experience making technical decisions in a commercial environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to set expectations clearly.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and version control (git).

Bonus Points

• Experience with large-scale casual games.
• Experience with platform integrations, or multi-device compatibility.
• Contributions to internal tools, shared libraries, or game engine improvements.

Benefits

About CoolGames

At CoolGames, we’re proud to be a leading international HTML5 game studio, working with some of the world’s biggest ‘Big Tech’ game platforms, such as Reddit, Netflix, Discord, Facebook and Microsoft Play. We also work with famous games IP such as Battleship, Angry Birds and Monopoly.  

CoolGames is part of Keesing, the world’s largest Braintainment company. Keesing is a financially strong publisher of engaging sudokus, crosswords and many other puzzles & games with a presence in over 20 countries headquartered in The Netherlands. 

With the CoolGames HQ in Amsterdam, supported by our global remote teams, we offer market-competitive salaries, the chance to contribute to successful casual games that are played by millions and work directly with some of the biggest brands in the world. We believe in creativity, collaboration and delivering world-class gaming experiences, while giving you the choice to either join our Amsterdam studio or become part of our remote teams.

If you want to grow your career in a profitable, internationally recognized company, work closely with world-famous partners and be part of a highly professional international team – CoolGames is the right place for you.

Working at CoolGames

We are a company which believes it’s important to constantly improve and innovate as we strive to be the best. We work in an informal environment with enthusiastic and smart individuals from all over the world to design and create great games. We have a hybrid work schedule where we strike a balance between face to face collaboration and efficient remote work. 

What we can offer you

• An international team of 50+ professionals from almost 20 different countries;
• Work closely with some of the biggest (upcoming) game platforms in the world (Netflix, Facebook, Microsoft, Samsung, discord and more) on high-quality casual games that are played by millions of gamers;  
• Competitive remuneration, including health care insurance, travel costs compensation, a company pension plan and a sport allowance; 
• Market salary; 
• A flexible hybrid working environment;
• A very open, informal and international company culture where everyone can make a difference. 

We are looking for a Senior Web Developer who will contribute to the entire lifecycle of HTML5 casual game development – from inception to live maintenance. As a key player, you’ll champion the delivery of top-notch products, becoming an integral part of an agile, multidisciplinary, and creatively charged game development team. 

About CoolGames

At CoolGames, we’re proud to be a leading international HTML5 game studio, working with some of the world’s biggest ‘Big Tech’ game platforms, such as Netflix, Discord, Facebook and Microsoft Play. We also work with famous games IP such as Battleship, Angry Birds and Monopoly.  

CoolGames is part of Keesing, the world’s largest Braintainment company. Keesing is a financially strong publisher of engaging sudokus, crosswords and many other puzzles & games with a presence in over 20 countries headquartered in The Netherlands. 

With the CoolGames HQ in Amsterdam, supported by our global remote teams, we offer market-competitive salaries, the chance to contribute to successful casual games that are played by millions and work directly with some of the biggest brands in the world. We believe in creativity, collaboration and delivering world-class gaming experiences, while giving you the choice to either join our Amsterdam studio or become part of our remote teams.

If you want to grow your career in a profitable, internationally recognized company, work closely with world-famous partners and be part of a highly professional international team – CoolGames is the right place for you.

About the role  

As a Game Developer at CoolGames, you take responsibility for delivering high quality products. Your teamwork will be fundamental to the success of the products you work on.
You will be part of a multidisciplinary development team collaborating with game designers, game artists, quality assurance engineers, and fellow game developers. You work on developing new titles, evolving existing games, as well as contributing to the maintenance and evolving our internal tooling.

You are adept at managing your time and productivity with the goal to deliver robust code while meeting established deadlines.

Next to working on features for our games your responsibilities include optimisation, debugging, fixing bugs, performing code reviews, reviewing requirements, working on platform compatibility and ensuring our games remain stable and performant.

Requirements

About You

You are proactive and thrive on taking ownership and responsibility. You write clean, readable and maintainable code. Sharing your skills and experience with the team is something you have consistently been praised for. You are open to feedback and eager to learn. You embrace collaboration and have a ”you can count on me” attitude. You flourish in an environment where teamwork and communication are important.

The right candidate meets most of the following requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience programming professionally;

• Solid knowledge of development best practices;

• Knows how to strike a balance between speed and quality;

• Estimations are consistently on point

• Proactively communicates and mitigates technical risk;

• Excellent at contributing to technical design & technical decision making;

• Understands the commercial reality of casual games; 

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development practices;

• Experience with version control tools like git;

• Experience with web game tech (e.g. PIXI/Phaser/Three.js);

• Experience with HTML5 games, Typescript and JavaScript is a plus;

Benefits

What we can offer you

• An international team of 50+ professionals from almost 20 different countries;
• Work closely with some of the biggest (upcoming) game platforms in the world on high-quality casual games that are played by millions of gamers;  
• Competitive remuneration;
• A flexible remote working environment;  
• A very open, informal and international company culture where everyone can make a difference.

We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer with Test Automation experience who will contribute to the entire lifecycle of HTML5 casual game development – from inception to live maintenance. As a key player, you’ll champion the delivery of top-notch products, becoming an integral part of an agile, multidisciplinary, and creatively charged game development team.

About CoolGames

At CoolGames, we’re proud to be a leading international HTML5 game studio, working with some of the world’s biggest ‘Big Tech’ game platforms, such as Netflix, Discord, Facebook and Microsoft Play. We also work with famous games IP such as Battleship, Angry Birds and Monopoly.  

CoolGames is part of Keesing, the world’s largest Braintainment company. Keesing is a financially strong publisher of engaging sudokus, crosswords and many other puzzles & games with a presence in over 20 countries headquartered in The Netherlands. 

With the CoolGames HQ in Amsterdam, supported by our global remote teams, we offer market-competitive salaries, the chance to contribute to successful casual games that are played by millions and work directly with some of the biggest brands in the world. We believe in creativity, collaboration and delivering world-class gaming experiences, while giving you the choice to either join our Amsterdam studio or become part of our remote teams.

If you want to grow your career in a profitable, internationally recognized company, work closely with world-famous partners and be part of a highly professional international team – CoolGames is the right place for you.

About the role  

As a QA Engineer at CoolGames, you take responsibility for delivering high quality products. Your teamwork will be fundamental to the success of the products you work on. During a workday you might be testing, building and maintaining automated tests to speed up regression,  reviewing requirements, drafting test cases or collaborating with teammates to figure out tricky bugs among other things.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Testing games manually (black box testing);
• Identify and track project issues;
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining automated testing suites using tools like Playwright;
• Pay attention to user experience, gameplay mechanics, graphics, and audio elements to ensure a seamless gaming experience;
• Participate in the planning and execution of QA activities throughout all phases of the sprint lifecycle;
• Reviewing and analyzing game design documents and functional specifications;
• Creating test documentation (traceability matrix, test cases, checklists, test reports);
• Facilitating smooth releases and collaboration with a team;
• Provide feedback and suggestions to improve quality and game experience.

Requirements

About you

You like to troubleshoot technical problems and try to get to the root of why weird error messages come up. You are proactive and used to taking ownership and responsibility. You are not afraid of information analysis. You see yourself as a good team player.

• Good written and verbal communications skills in English – ability to describe identified issues in a clear and concise manner;
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in software testing (gamedev is a strong plus);
• A methodical, scientific and analytical mindset;
• Hands-on test automation experience: ability to write, review, and debug end-to-end automated tests;
• Proficiency with at least one modern programming language with a preference for JavaScript/TypeScript;
• Familiarity with Playwright/Cypress/WebdriverIO or another web test automation tool;
•  Experience with version control and CI integration (Jenkins/GitHub/GitLab);
• Expert in Test Design techniques and their applicability on practice;
• Knowledgeable about SDLC and STLC;
• Strong Knowledge about Testing types and their applicability;
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, processes and tools;
• Experience with multiple platforms (mobile, desktop, web, social platforms);
• Experience with Jira or similar software;
• Experience with TestRail or similar software;
• Proven Flexibility to adapt to changes in project requirements 
• Work your shifts (mostly) in concurrence with the rest of the team to ensure smooth collaboration.
• Certification like ISTQB is a strong plus

Benefits

What we can offer you

• An international team of 50+ professionals from almost 20 different countries;
• Work closely with some of the biggest (upcoming) game platforms in the world on high-quality casual games that are played by millions of gamers;  
• Competitive remuneration;
• A flexible remote working environment;  
• A very open, informal and international company culture where everyone can make a difference.