Salary 205-250k net Location RF, Citizenship RF

Remote

IT integrator company

Registration as Individual Entrepreneur (IP), civil law contract (SUMZ - social insurance contributions are paid by the employer)

• Experience in gaming, gamification, EdTech, sports, or social products;

• Understanding of the chess subject area;

• Experience with gaming platforms and progression systems;

• Understanding of retention, engagement, and core gameplay loop;

• Experience in designing XP, levels, quests, achievements, and seasonal mechanics;

• Experience in designing monetization for digital products, virtual currency, and virtual goods;

• Experience with digital goods stores, subscriptions, Battle Pass/Season Pass;

• Understanding of game and product metrics;

• Experience analyzing user behavior and competitor products;

• SQL skills and experience with analytical platforms, data warehouses, or BI tools.

Mandatory Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience as a system and/or business analyst in IT product development or implementation projects;

• Experience in independently processing requirements from business tasks to delivering solutions for development;

• Ability to formalize business processes, business rules, and user scenarios;

• Ability to decompose a complex subject area into functional blocks;

• Skills in developing User Stories, Use Cases, Acceptance Criteria, and functional requirements;

• Ability to identify implicit requirements, exceptions, limitations, and edge cases;

• Practical skills in BPMN and UML modeling;

• Practical skills in business process analysis and optimization;

• Understanding of client-server and microservices architecture;

• Experience with REST API and understanding of WebSocket/real-time interaction;

• Understanding of asynchronous interaction and message queues;

• Experience in designing and documenting integrations;

• Experience with requirement management systems, documentation, and task tracking: Wiki/Confluence, Jira/Tracker, or similar;

• Analytical thinking, ability to systematize large volumes of information;

• High level of autonomy;

• Ability to justify decisions and assess their consequences.

A Middle analyst is expected to be able to independently work through a task from a business idea to an implementable system solution.

The candidate must be able to:

• Understand the business goal and expected product effect;

• Identify stakeholders and user scenarios;

• Decompose an initiative into functional blocks;

• Define business rules, constraints, and dependencies;

• Identify contradictions and missing requirements;

• Propose and justify solution options;

• Assess the impact of the solution on the existing architecture and services;

• Describe APIs, integrations, events, and entity states;

• Work through errors, exceptions, and edge cases;

• Prepare requirements and Acceptance Criteria for development and QA;

• Support implementation and answer arising questions;

• Verify the compliance of the implemented solution with the initial business requirements.

Key Criterion: A Middle analyst should see not an individual feature, but a system of interconnected game mechanics, user scenarios, services, and business goals.

Additional Requirements

• Experience in gaming, gamification, EdTech, sports, or social products;

• Understanding of the chess subject area;

• Experience with gaming platforms and progression systems;

• Understanding of retention, engagement, and core gameplay loop;

• Experience in designing XP, levels, quests, achievements, and seasonal mechanics;

• Experience in designing monetization for digital products, virtual currency, and virtual goods;

• Experience with digital goods stores, subscriptions, Battle Pass/Season Pass;

• Understanding of game and product metrics;

• Experience analyzing user behavior and competitor products;

• SQL skills and experience with analytical platforms, data warehouses, or BI tools.

Project Tasks

User Profile Development:

• Development of player profile progression scenarios: statistics, achievements, ratings, activity history, social elements;

• Designing new mechanics for profile personalization and displaying game progress;

• Developing interconnections of the profile with ratings, achievements, seasons, quests, and inventory;

• Analyzing user scenarios and data to identify growth points for player engagement and retention.

Monetization System:

• Designing monetization scenarios for the gaming platform: in-game currency, store, subscriptions, premium content;

• Developing mechanics for purchasing and using digital goods;

• Participating in the design of Battle Pass/Season Pass and free/premium models;

• Forming business rules for pricing, discounts, bundles, time-limited offers, and content acquisition restrictions;

• Developing integrations with payment services and related user and system scenarios.

Game Progression and Quests:

• Developing the XP, levels, seasons, quests, and achievements system;

• Designing daily/weekly/monthly and special quests;

• Defining rules for awarding XP and receiving rewards for in-game activities;

• Developing seasonal progression, progression tracks, and Season Pass mechanics;

• Analyzing the impact of progression mechanics on player engagement and retention;

• Balancing the interconnections of in-game activities, task difficulty, XP, and rewards.

Digital Content and Inventory:

• Designing the system of digital goods and virtual items;

• Developing the player inventory: obtaining, storing, using, and displaying items;

• Developing categories and attributes for digital content: cosmetic items, avatars, customization, rewards, temporary items;

• Defining the lifecycle of a digital item and business rules for its acquisition and use;

• Designing connections between inventory, store, profile, progression, and seasonal mechanics;

• Developing administrative scenarios for managing in-game content.

Selection Stages

1. A small test task for discussion at the interview

2. Interview

Project and Team Description

Development of a gaming platform for recognizing and broadcasting chess games.

Areas of Responsibility:

• Development and redesign of client scenarios for various segments of the gaming platform users;

• Developing customer journeys (CJM/User Flow) through game and product processes;

• Developing business and functional requirements, business architecture of services, and user scenarios;

• Analyzing and optimizing existing game processes considering user experience, business goals, and technical constraints;

• Interaction with Product Manager, UX/UI designers, developers, QA engineers, analysts;

• Developing requirements and coordinating solutions with internal and external process participants;

• Analyzing user data, player behavior, and game metrics to identify problems and growth areas;

• Forming proposals for changes to game mechanics, processes, and services considering business impact, user experience, and risk minimization;

• Designing solutions together with the development team: detailing services, APIs, integration, and event scenarios;

• Decomposing large initiatives and epics into functional requirements, user stories, and tasks for development;

• Prioritization, backlog analysis and structuring, participation in effort estimation;

• Supporting requirements throughout all stages of development: from discovery and design to testing and acceptance;

• Identifying dependencies between game mechanics, services, and user scenarios;

• Ensuring consistency of requirements between the client, backend services, game mechanics, and administrative tools.

Main Functional Areas:

• Game Mechanics: game sessions, matchmaking, ratings, tournaments, game modes, timers, reconnect/disconnect, real-time interaction;

• Game Progression: XP, levels, quests, achievements, seasons, rewards, and progression tracks;

• Retention and Engagement: onboarding, core loop, daily/weekly mechanics, streaks, rewards, player segmentation, and user retention mechanics;

• Monetization: in-game currency, store, cosmetic items, premium subscriptions, bundles, Battle Pass/Season Pass, free/premium models;

• Seasonal Mechanics: season lifecycle, seasonal progress, tasks, rewards, premium track, time limits, and season completion;

• Game Economy: interconnections of in-game actions, rewards, progression, and monetization; balancing content value and avoiding pay-to-win in competitive mechanics.