Shanghai, Shanghai, China On-site

Scopely is hiring a Lead Anticheat Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of client security and anti-cheat engineers in China, establishing technical vision, coding standards, and efficient workflows.
  • Create, deploy, and manage client-side detection systems to counter cheating tools, altered clients, hooking frameworks, and emulators on Android and iOS platforms.
  • Oversee the integration of client security into internal anti-cheat systems, collaborating across teams to ensure effective and scalable threat detection.
  • Develop and refine obfuscation and hardening strategies for mobile builds in China, including binary protection, anti-debugging, anti-tampering, and integrity verification, while assessing third-party hardening solutions.
  • Ensure comprehensive protection across the China mobile landscape, covering multiple Android app stores, OEM devices, varied OS/ROM versions, rooted or jailbroken environments, and PC or emulator-based cheating methods.
  • Write and maintain secure, low-level code in C++ and Java/Kotlin or Objective-C/Swift for critical security functions such as detection mechanisms, integrity validation, and encrypted client-server communication.

Work Arrangement

On-site

Other

  • Fluency in both Mandarin and English, both written and spoken, is required.
  • Position requires attendance in the office five days per week.
Required Skills
C++JavaKotlinObjective-CSwiftiOS Development
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Scopely
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences. They create, publish, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience across multiple platforms.
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Job Details
Department Information Technology
Category security
Posted 4 months ago