Game Engine Developer

Bloxd; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A profitable video game start-up is seeking a Game Engine Developer in London to enhance game creation processes and innovate gameplay systems. Applicants should have a passion for gaming, a solid engineering background, and readiness to iterate quickly based on user feedback. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a chance to play a vital role in a small but growing team, developing games that engage millions.

Benefits

5% pension match on qualifying earnings

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Permanent desk in King’s Cross office

Qualifications

• 1 to 4 years of professional experience in software engineering, game engine development, or game development.
• Experience developing games or game engines through work or as side projects.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage your own game.
• Develop new gameplay systems inside existing games.
• Build new engine features to be used by other game developers.
• Profile and optimise performance.
• Develop an in-game item marketplace.
• Improve partner implementations.

Skills

Game Development

Software Engineering

Game Engine Development

Performance Optimization

Tools

TypeScript

React

WebGL

Node.js

Job description

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We’re a profitable video game start-up in London with 11 million monthly players and we’re hiring engineers for our 8-person founding team.

About us

Creating games with editable worlds usually takes 20k+ lines of well-optimised code and years of development. Bloxd gives you editable worlds in 5 lines of code, within 5 minutes. You can play our games at bloxd.io.

About you

You’re passionate about gaming and excited by the prospect of building great games that bring millions together. You have strong engineering fundamentals and a strong product sense, being happy to wear many hats (game design, UI/UX, community management), and iterate quickly on a live product whilst learning from user feedback.

What we’re looking for

• 1 to 4 years of professional experience in software engineering, game engine development, or game development. This can include revenue-generating side projects and internships.
• Experience developing games or game engines either through work or as side projects.

Things you could work on in your first 2 months:

• Create and manage your own game
• Develop new gameplay systems inside existing games
• Build new engine features to be used by other game developers
• Profile and optimise performance
• Develop an in-game item marketplace
• Improve our partner implementations (E.g. CrazyGames, Discord Activities)

Our tech

We have a TypeScript-first codebase, and use a combination of React, WebGL, and Node. This tech allows us to deliver Bloxd in an incredibly accessible way, and provides a great developer experience. You’ll need to be happy to pick these tools up if you’re not already familiar with them.

• 5% pension match on qualifying earnings
• A permanent desk in our King’s Cross office
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

How to apply

Click apply on LinkedIn, please include a short note (3-4 lines) to state why you think you’d be a good fit. Please highlight any relevant projects, with links where applicable!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development, Computer Games, and Technology, Information and Media

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