Lead Game Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of game engineers, focusing on goal setting, one-on-one meetings, feedback, and supporting career advancement.

• Strategize, recruit, and conduct interviews for technical positions within the Gameplay Engineering team.

• Oversee team processes, including planning, code review standards, on-call/bug triage, as well as work scoping and estimation.

• Foster a healthy, high-trust engineering culture.

• Review pull requests and assist engineers with challenging technical issues.

• Troubleshoot and resolve intricate cross-system problems related to multiplayer synchronization, performance, and stability.

• Develop prototypes or construct gameplay systems directly as necessary.

• Collaborate with game design, art, and production teams to define features and ensure alignment of engineering with the creative vision.

• Work alongside the Technical Director to establish a pragmatic technical roadmap.

• Communicate engineering progress, risks, and trade-offs to studio leadership.

• Report directly to the Technical Director while leading the Gameplay Engineering team.

• Coordinate with the Backend Lead, Technical Director, Production, Design, Art, QA, and the wider engineering organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of professional game development experience, with shipped title(s) developed in Unreal Engine.

• More than 2 years of experience in managing or leading engineers directly.

• Proficient in C++ with extensive knowledge of Blueprint workflows.

• Practical experience with online multiplayer systems, including replication, client-server architecture, and netcode.

• Demonstrated experience in addressing multiplayer performance issues and debugging challenges.

• Strong grasp of software architecture and design patterns, with discernment on their application.

• Background in cross-functional collaboration with design, art, and production in a real production setting.

• Comfortable taking high ownership in a lean team and adapting to multiple roles.

• Excellent communication skills for articulating technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and motivating a team.

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.

• Candidates must be willing to operate within North American time zones (EST–PST).

• Capability to engage in extended computer-based work, inclusive of prolonged use of monitors, keyboards, mice, and game controllers, for at least six hours per day.

• Nice to have: experience in shipping a live-service or online multiplayer game post-launch.

• Nice to have: experience at an independent or mid-size studio.

• Nice to have: familiarity with performance profiling and optimization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries and transparent pay structure.

• Stock options.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% for individuals, 90% for dependents).

• Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, and additional benefits.

• 401(k) contributions (U.S.) / RRSP + DPSP contributions (Canada).

• Paid parental leave.

• Fully remote studio distributed across North American time zones.