Game Play Engineer, Battle Road

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
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