Lead Engineer

1 Day ago • 7 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Ghost Story Games is seeking a Lead Engineer to support dynamic gameplay and narrative systems for their games, including Judas. The role involves leading teams, owning game subsystems, driving implementation, developing roadmaps, and managing personnel. The engineer will ensure systems receive the necessary attention for the games' advancement. Responsibilities include feature ownership, answering team questions, managing programmers, supporting high-quality game features, participating in code reviews, and collaborating with other departments. This position requires experience in the game industry and the ability to architect systems from the ground up.
Must have:
  • 7+ years of game industry experience with AAA titles
  • Experience managing teams of programmers
  • Strong knowledge of C++ programming language
  • Unreal Engine 4/5 experience is required
  • Software engineering skills for maintainable code
  • Experience developing in the game development lifecycle
  • Ability to architect systems from scratch
  • Experience developing for games, preferably FPS
Good to have:
  • Passion for hands-on game development
  • Commitment to code quality and documentation
  • Self-motivated for solving creative problems
  • Experience with First-Person gameplay and systems
  • Understanding of procedural design systems in games
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
  • Experience with source control via Perforce
  • Ability to prioritize feature requests
  • Self motivated, and able to work well independently

Job Details

WHO WE ARE

Ghost Story Games is a self-publishing game development studio. Our studio designed and released award-winning games, such as System Shock 2, BioShock and BioShock Infinite. We are currently working on Judas and would love for you to be part of our team.

 

 

THE CHALLENGE

We are looking for a Lead Engineer with a diverse set of technical game development skills and experience to help support our dynamic gameplay and narrative systems within thedeep narrative worlds that we aim to deliver with each of our games. Candidates will be expected to lead teams owning entire subsystems in our game, driving forward their implementation and adoption as well as developing and maintaining roadmaps, managing personnel and interfacing with other teams/disciplines. This person will need to ensure that these systems receive the level of attention and care that will bring our games to the next level. 

 

What you'll take on

  • Proactive feature ownership of entire game subsystems – including all aspects of development, maintenance, advocacy and documentation. 
  • Be a team-facing touchpoint for all assigned systems/domains. This would include answering questions, disseminating information to the team, talking over feature requests and evangelizing these systems as appropriate. 
  • Manage and develop teams of programmers for work on assigned systems/domains. 
  • Support high quality and robust game features and systems, by gathering requirements, designing solutions, implementing robust code, testing and debugging. 
  • Participate in group collaboration and utilize engineering best practices, such as code reviews. 
  • Work with all departments to ensure our systems meet the needs of our content creators. 
  • Ability to identify use cases for our systems and technologies that our content creators haven’t conceived of that can take our game to the next level.  
  • Create efficient, scalable, optimized code while working with 3rd party libraries and tools. 

What you bring

  • 7+ years’ experience in the game industry with at least 2 shipped AAA titles. 
  • Experience managing teams. 
  • Strong knowledge of C++. 
  • C#/python experience a bonus. 
  • Unreal Engine 4/5 experience is a strong requirement for this position. 
  • Ability to quickly understand existing code and enhance/extend an existing architecture. 
  • Software engineering skills, including the ability to write maintainable and robust code. 
  • Experience developing in and supporting all stages of the development lifecycle. 
  • Ability to architect systems from scratch. 
  • Experience developing for games; preferably action, First Person Shooters. 
  • Ability to research, analyze and optimize code to meet performance requirements. 
  • Experience developing for and shipping cross-platform titles – PC/XSX/PS5 preferred. 

 

Great to have

  • A passion for hands-on game development with a focus on attention to detail. 
  • Commitment to code quality, documentation and sound testing procedures. 
  • Self-motivated towards solving creative problems. 
  • Able to respond elegantly to difficult creative changes, often late in the process. 
  • Ability to prioritize feature requests to developers and engineers based on design goals. 
  • Experience with First-Person gameplay and systems. 
  • Understanding of procedural design systems in games. 
  • Self-motivated, and able to work well independently. 
  • Ability to work well under pressure and with deadlines. 
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal, and organizational skills. 
  • Experience with source control via Perforce or equivalent. 
  • Must be eligible to work in the US.

 

Please be aware that Ghost Story does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Ghost Story also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and the Company will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scam or phishing exercise. Ghost Story's in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a ghoststorygames.com email domain). If you need to report an issue or otherwise have questions, please contact Careers@ghoststorygames.com

As an equal opportunity employer, Ghost Story Games ("Ghost Story") is committed to fostering and celebrating the diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds of its talent, partners, and communities throughout its organization. Consistent with this commitment, Ghost Story does not discriminate or retaliate against any employee or job applicant because of their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, and genetic information (including family medical history), or on the basis of any other trait protected by applicable law. If you need to report a concern or have questions regarding Ghost Story’s equal opportunity commitment, please contact Careers@ghoststorygames.com.

 

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