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Game Play Engineer, Battle Road

Build and optimize gameplay systems and player-facing features for AtomEngine, a scalable cloud-based simulation platform, using Godot, GDScript, and C++. Requires 3+ years of game engine experience shipping live service games.

150k – 185k
Remote3+ YOEGame Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Collaborate closely with designers to iterate on gameplay concepts and specifications, ensuring features are technically feasible, performant, and deliverable within schedule constraints
  • Implement new gameplay systems and player-facing features in AtomEngine using Godot, GDScript, and C++
  • Profile, analyze, and optimize gameplay systems to ensure high performance and responsiveness across a range of scenarios and scales
  • Design gameplay features with a practical understanding of where logic lives (client vs server), how state is replicated, and how latency and scale impact gameplay behavior and player experience
  • Partner with QA and testing teams to validate features, identify edge cases, and iterate on bugs related to gameplay correctness, performance, and user experience
  • Write and maintain clear technical documentation describing system behavior, interfaces, dependencies, and constraints to support collaboration and long-term maintainability

What We Look For

  • 3+ years of game engine or gameplay engineering experience, with experience both shipping and supporting live service games
  • Familiarity with popular game engines (Godot, Unity, Unreal)
  • Experience optimizing performance of systems
  • A mindset focused on player experience at massive scales

Skills

GodotGdscriptC++UnityUnreal EngineGame Engine DevelopmentGameplay SystemsPerformance OptimizationClient-Server ArchitectureLive Service Games

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