Gameplay Development Lead

What is your role? 

As a Gameplay Development Lead for Eleventh Hour Games, you will lead from the front providing technical guidance as well as hopping into the code. You will help design and implement both the game's architecture as well as the team's processes to ensure the smooth development and deployment of new functionality for Last Epoch. Along the way, you will support and help grow the team through code & design reviews and hiring. This role is ideal for someone who craves ownership and has strong communication skills, both written and verbal as you will be working with a global remote team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience in a similar role
• 5+ years of game development experience in a programming role  
  
• Proficiency in writing clean, readable, and efficient code
  
• Strong knowledge of game engine systems and performance as well as data structures and algorithms
  
• Experience working on at minimum two shipped Unity titles

Pluses

• Knowledge of fundamental multiplayer concepts such as reliability, congestion, server authority, and interpolation
• Varied experience across a game's many systems
• Passion for ARPGs in particular a huge plus

Responsibilities

• Ensure basic needs are met and work is unblocked, larger issues are identified and resolved in a timely fashion, and help teammates grow as engineers
• Lead your team to define development timeframes, dependencies, and areas of risk to be considered in project planning
• Champion best practices and standards across projects
• Jump into the code. Resolve pressing issues. Help lift the project up.

Why Eleventh Hour Games?

EHG is a fast growing Indie Studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge epic games. Epic games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators. With our debut title Last Epoch, we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!

• Flexible fully remote working arrangements
• Team focused environment, including casual game nights
• 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 5 floating holidays at the start of each year (increased with company tenure)
• 90% paid health coverage premiums for U.S. based employees + 100% dependents
• Dental, Vision for U.S. based employees + dependents
• 401K for U.S. based employees

EHG is committed to full inclusion, and is an equal opportunity employer. As part of this commitment, EHG will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@eleventhhour.games. Please note, general employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here.