Lead Gameplay Engineer

3 Days ago • 6 Years + • Game Engine • $210,000 PA - $250,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As Lead Gameplay Engineer at AGBO, you'll be a key member of the growing games team, driving execution across the codebase, ensuring technical excellence and stability. You will collaborate with design and production, pushing features forward in a fast-paced environment, ensuring stability for daily internal playtests. Responsibilities include leading technical decisions, mentoring engineers, establishing best practices, and shaping long-term technical strategy. You'll need 6+ years of professional game development experience with senior-level contributions on shipped titles, strong C++ and Unreal Engine skills, and a passion for storytelling and gameplay.
Must have:
  • 6+ years game dev experience
  • Strong C++ and Unreal Engine skills
  • Game system architecture & implementation
  • Technical leadership & mentorship
  • Collaborative work style
Good to have:
  • Live service game experience
  • Startup or early-phase project experience
  • Interest in film/cross-medium storytelling
Perks:
  • Full remote flexibility

Job Details

About the Company:
AGBO is an artist-led, Academy Award-winning independent studio focused on developing and producing innovative story universes across film, television, and digital platforms. Founded in 2017 by visionary directors Anthony and Joe Russo, AGBO’s mission is to inspire and advance the next generation of storytelling to entertain and influence audiences worldwide. AGBO’s productions include Everything Everywhere All At Once, Extraction, The Electric State, and the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday.

In 2023, AGBO welcomed Donald Mustard—former Chief Creative Officer at Epic Games and co-creator of Fortnite—as a partner. Mustard brings a bold creative vision to AGBO: to expand what storytelling can be through immersive, interconnected worlds that span across media. We’re building the future of storytelling—and we’re looking for bold, creative minds to help shape it. If you’re ready to help define what comes next, we’d love to meet you

Position Summary:

As Lead Gameplay Engineer, you will be a key anchor of our growing games team. You’ll drive execution across the codebase, ensure technical excellence and stability, and help bring our creative visions to life through daily playtests. This is an opportunity to help build something special and exciting.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own the technical execution across the codebase—design, implement, and maintain scalable, high-quality game systems.
  • Collaborate closely with design and production to push key features forward in a fast-moving development environment.
  • Ensure stability and performance across all builds to enable daily internal playtests.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a small team of engineers; help establish best practices, code standards, and a healthy development culture.
  • Help shape long-term technical strategy while remaining hands-on and agile in the day-to-day.

Qualifications & Skills:

  • 6+ years of professional game development experience, including senior-level contributions on shipped titles, bonus if you helped grow and maintain a live service game.
  • Strong programming skills in C++, and Unreal Engine systems.
  • Proven ability to architect, implement, and maintain game systems in a collaborative environment.
  • Comfortable leading technical decisions, mentoring others, and wearing multiple hats when needed.
  • Passion for storytelling, gameplay, design, and pushing creative boundaries.
  • Significant experience in UE4 and/or UE5.
  • Bonus: Previous experience at a startup or on early-phase projects.
  • Bonus: An interest in film, cross-medium storytelling, or experimental gameplay.


The typical base salary for this position ranges from $210,000-$250,000 annually. Actual offers will be determined based on experience. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires in CA, NY, NC, and UT. Actual offers will be determined using local market data for the identified candidate’s geographic area and may vary from the stated range.

AGBO Films, LLC is committed to operating fair and unbiased recruitment procedures allowing all applicants an equal opportunity for employment, free from discrimination on the basis of religion, race, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, color, ethnic or national origin or any other classification as may be protected by applicable law. We aim to recruit the right people for the jobs we have to offer, and to assess applications on the basis of relevant skills, education and experience.

AGBO participates in E-Verify - English | Spanish

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent to this position. This position offers full remote flexibility.

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Founded by award-winning, record-breaking directors Anthony and Joe Russo, AGBO is an artist-led entertainment company focused on creating content borne of innovative story universes across film, television, and digital platforms. 



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