Senior Software Engineer, Games

Role Overview

• Design, implement, test, and maintain clean, efficient, reusable code for gameplay features, tools, systems, and live-service functionality.
• Build and improve tools that help designers, artists, product managers, and live operations teams work more efficiently.
• Integrate tools and systems into existing content creation pipelines and production workflows.
• Work across gameplay systems, UI systems, live operations systems, backend integrations, and internal development tools.
• Debug and resolve complex issues in production and development environments.
• Analyze and optimize performance, runtime behavior, memory usage, network behavior, and system reliability.
• Work with networked and online systems, including APIs, real-time systems, client-server interactions, and multiplayer or social game features.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, artists, QA, product managers, and live operations stakeholders to ship improvements quickly and responsibly.
• Participate in code reviews and help uphold engineering quality, consistency, and maintainability.
• Maintain clear and useful documentation for code, systems, tools, and project-related materials.
• Support modernization efforts across large, long-lived codebases while maintaining production stability.
• Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and technical recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Use AI coding assistants and automation tools where appropriate to improve productivity, accelerate debugging, and reduce repetitive work.
• Mentor and support other developers through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in game development, live-service products, or interactive digital experiences.
• Strong programming skills in C++, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, or similar languages.
• Experience building, maintaining, and shipping features in live production environments.
• Strong understanding of gameplay systems, tools development, client-server architecture, APIs, real-time systems, or online game features.
• Experience working in large, mature, or long-lived codebases.
• Ability to write clean, simple, well-documented code from technical and product requirements.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of performance optimization, system architecture, source control, and software development best practices.
• Comfort working with designers, artists, product managers, QA, and other non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to translate general product or design ideas into practical technical solutions.
• Experience working independently and collaboratively in a fast-moving team environment.
• Familiarity with Agile, Kanban, or similar development methodologies.
• A practical mindset, strong ownership, and a bias toward shipping high-quality work.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Nice to Have
• Experience with Unity, Unreal Engine, HTML5 game clients, or custom game engines.
• Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, C#, C++, or Node.js in production environments.
• Experience with mobile development for Android or iOS.
• Experience with free-to-play games, social games, casual games, virtual worlds, or live-service game operations.
• Experience with game economies, virtual goods, player-to-player systems, content pipelines, or live event systems.
• Experience with multiplayer, online, networking, sockets, REST APIs, client-side prediction, synchronization, or latency-sensitive systems.
• Experience with SQL, MariaDB, Redis, Memcached, caching strategies, or data-store tradeoffs.
• Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment workflows.
• Experience with performance profilers, memory analyzers, CPU profilers, or network debugging tools.
• Experience with ActionScript, Flash, HTMX, or legacy game technology.
• Experience shipping games on web, mobile, PC, console, or cross-platform environments.
• Comfort using AI coding assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar tools in a real development workflow.

Tech Stack

• Android
• Docker
• Flash
• iOS
• JavaScript
• MariaDB
• Node.js
• PHP
• Redis
• SQL
• TypeScript
• Unity
• Unreal Engine

Benefits

• Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Health and Wellness spending account.
• Generous time off policies.
• Opportunity to work on long-running live-service games with established player communities.
• Exposure to modernization, AI-enabled engineering workflows, and high-impact product initiatives.