Principal Platform Engineer

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Game Engine

Job Summary

Job Description

Spliced Inc. seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to contribute to a new, innovative game project. The role involves developing and maintaining core technology, ensuring optimal performance across platforms, and collaborating with art, design, and engine teams. Responsibilities include setting performance budgets, implementing platform-specific features, coordinating API integrations, and ensuring efficient team workflows through various communication channels. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in game development, platform APIs, and ideally Unreal Engine 4+, with a strong emphasis on cross-platform game shipping.
Must have:
  • 7+ years software development experience
  • 5+ years game platform experience OR 2+ years Unreal 4+ experience
  • Cross-platform game shipping experience
  • Excellent communication & collaboration skills
  • Passion for game performance optimization
  • Computer science degree
Good to have:
  • 3+ years Unreal Engine 4+ experience
  • Experience with TCR’s and TRC’s compliance
  • Large-scale team experience (100+)
  • AAA game title shipping experience
Perks:
  • Sign-on bonus
  • Wellbeing allowance
  • Generous pension and healthcare benefits

Job Details

Principal Platform Engineer

AAA
Fully Remote, UK
Spliced Inc.

“Let’s redefine what a game is and how we interact with them.  We want to make games that everyone wants to play and invite the whole world into ours. Together we’ll discover connection and innovation you’ve never experienced before and an amazing world you’ll never leave behind”. 

We are Spliced Inc. and we’re looking for a Principal Platform Engineer

The Role

You will be part of an innovative new project, working alongside a talented and passionate team on an original IP to create a world class online gameplay experience that will surprise and excite players. You will play a critical role in developing and maintaining our core technology, and facilitating launch on our target platforms.

There is lots of scope for the game, world and team to grow further, you can use your unique skillset and abilities to be creative, problem solve, and have a meaningful influence on the development of the game!

Key Responsibilities

  • Be the goto engineer for all technical aspects of game development for game platforms.
  • Ensure memory, performance, and other core systems are working at optimal quality. 
  • Implement or facilitate any platform specific features, and coordinate with other engineers and teams as necessary for any TCR’s and TRC’s.
  • Work with the art and design teams and engine teams to set memory and performance budgets for game platforms and ensure there are easy to use and visible tools for tracking, including automation.
  • Coordinate with game and engine feature teams to ensure correct platform API integrations are in place.
  • Communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with other members of the engineering team using Slack, code reviews, design reviews, bugs, and video calls.

Basic Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience, working on multi-discipline teams.
  • 5+ years of working with game platforms and platform APIs and tools OR 2+ years of Unreal 4+ experience.
  • Experience shipping cross-platform or cross-console generation games. 
  • Strong interpersonal skills: the abilities to communicate positively and effectively, and to take constructive feedback on work well. Self-motivated, can-do attitude, quick learner and problem solver.
  • Passionate about optimal game performance and facilitating efficient team workflows.
  • Computer science degree.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience working with Unreal Engine 4+.
  • Experience with TCR’s and TRC’s compliance.
  • Experience working on large scale teams of 100 or more.
  • Experience shipping a AAA game title.

Why Spliced Inc.

We’re drawn to passion. We’re intrigued by who you are, not just what you do. We want you to feel at home and be excited to create the most career defining work of your life. Here at Spliced Inc, we care about all of this, and more.

Our benefits package is well thought out and you can expect to be rewarded and recognised for your hard work with components that include sign on bonus, a well-being allowance, and generous pension and healthcare benefits to name but a few.

As a Netease Games studio, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone and encourage applications from all races, religions, beliefs, ages, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We believe that genuinely diverse teams working in supportive and safe atmospheres, can create magic that touches the hearts and souls of all.

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NetEase Games, the video games division of NetEase, Inc., is a leading global video game developer and publisher, with operations in nine countries including owning global games studios that operate independently in North America, Europe and Japan.

We have developed and published international titles such as Knives Out, Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, and Naraka: Bladepoint.

NetEase Games works with other industry leaders and premium intellectual property holders to co-develop, distribute and market video games and content to players globally. Since our founding in 2001, we have developed or published hundreds of mobile, console and PC video games.

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