Senior C++ Engineer

3 Months ago • 4-8 Years • Game Engine

Job Summary

Job Description

Mojang Studios seeks a Senior C++ Engineer to contribute to the development of Minecraft. Responsibilities include designing and implementing gameplay systems, enhancing performance and stability, optimizing code, and collaborating with a cross-functional team. The role involves leading code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and proposing improvements to engineering workflows. The ideal candidate possesses excellent teamwork skills, C++ game development experience, a passion for games, and a strong understanding of engineering practices. This role will involve working with large codebases and contributing to a game played by over 100 million players worldwide.
Must have:
  • Excellent teamwork
  • C++ game development experience
  • Design workflows and systems
  • Quality-focused technical solutions
  • Work with large codebases
  • Passion for learning and sharing knowledge

Job Details

Mojang Studios is best known as the creators of Minecraft, but we’re also on a mission  to build a better world through the power of play. 

Why play? Well, play is at the heart of everything we do. It’s the blocky backbone of our games, the core of our development philosophy, and even the origin of our name. From the relentless experimentation of our endlessly inspiring community to the classrooms where Minecraft has become an essential teaching tool, play is the bedrock of our existence. 

The Minecraft team is expanding to help realize our dream of a better Minecraft experience. As a member of this team, you will have the unique challenges of helping to design and implement gameplay systems, allowing our incredible community to realize their creations using mechanics and technologies that you created, and improving the performance and stability of the game as a whole. You'll join a cross-functional team and work closely with the other engineers, designers, artists, all working together on a game enjoyed by over 100,000,000 players worldwide. We have big dreams for the future of Minecraft and need you to help make them happen. 

As a member of our team, you'll step into an environment that empowers you to apply your expertise and values in fostering and evolving a healthy, collaborative culture as we continue to grow. 

 
As an Engineer in the Minecraft team you will: 

  • Actively spearhead and contribute to the design, execution, and test phases of the product development lifecycle from a technical standpoint.  
  • Participate actively in collaborative and cross-team technical design dialogues, providing valuable insights and recommendations concerning architectural frameworks and technical strategies.  
  • Proposes enhancements to engineering workflows with the aim of elevating quality, boosting engineering efficiency, and enhancing responsiveness to feedback and shifting priorities.  
  • Drive initiatives for optimizing code performance, future technical needs across all aspects of development, platform and tooling where applicable. 
  • Be a part of a highly collaborative cross-functional team consisting of Java and C++ engineers, game designers, QA and artists.   
  • Lead by example and mentor other engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment. 
  • Provide technical leadership during code reviews across teams, understand the root cause of the issues, and find ways to resolve them. 

 

We believe you are someone that have:  

  • Excellent teamwork skills and an eagerness to reach goals in a collaborative manner  
  • Experience with C++ game development. 
  • Experience and a strong drive in helping to design workflows and its underlying systems and implementing quality-focused technical solutions to make those systems work  
  • Solid knowledge of engineering practices   
  • The ability to work with large cross-platform codebases and legacy code  
  • Passion for learning and sharing knowledge with your team and the organisation  
  • You are knowledgeable and passionate about games 

For this role, we will consider fit for the team and company holistically. Meaning that we'll put a great emphasis on your interpersonal skills.  

Mojang Studios 

Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game developer. The company was founded in Stockholm, Sweden and has offices around the world, including Stockholm, Redmond, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai. We’re always working on new and exciting ways to expand the Minecraft universe.

Our community is global and incredibly diverse. We keep this in mind when developing anything, as we want people to feel included in Minecraft. And in recruiting, our goal is to make Mojang Studios as diverse as our community. 

We got started as a tiny indie developer, and part of our culture still reflects that heritage. But we’re also proud to belong to Xbox Game Studios, which creates unique opportunities to grow and develop.

To help us achieve amazing things, we have built an equally amazing studio space. Situated right on the water by Söder Mälarstrand, it’s filled to the brim with all the tools, toys and caffeine required to create world-class entertainment.

But in the end, it’s the people of Mojang Studios that make this place truly special. When you join, you’ll find yourself in the company of incredibly bright, warm, and creative individuals – all united and working toward a single goal. Come help us reach it!

Important note on resumes
Please make sure that all the information in your resume is accurate because we will conduct a thorough background check. Any discrepancies will lower your chances of getting to the next interview stage and we’d hate to miss out on an awesome candidate! Double check that any gap years are reflected in your history, and that your education and work experience are completely accurate. Good luck!

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About The Company

Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game studio based in Stockholm (Sweden) and Redmond (WA) with additional locations in London, Shanghai, and Tokyo as well as a partially remote workforce. We created Minecraft, the sandbox video game turned franchise that now includes two more games, novels, board games, apparel, and much more. 

We believe in the power of play and our mission is to build a better world through our work. At our studios, you’ll meet passionate and welcoming people with the same goal: to create games and products with a positive impact. Four core values guide everything we do:

 Fuel Passion.

 Minecraft encourages players to stay sharp and constantly evolve. We mirror that by bringing together enthusiastic people who are eager to innovate in their fields and giving them the resources to reach their goals. We’re passionate about our industry and strive to empower our employees and future generations of gaming professionals.

 Create Fun. 

We aim to create fun, enriching experiences for our players, whether they’re playing our games, learning in Minecraft Education, or discovering a new product. Thanks to our incredibly talented creator community and Minecraft Marketplace, the fun is virtually endless and there’s something for everyone in our blocky universe. 

Celebrate Creativity. 

Creativity is at the core of Minecraft, whether you’re making art in Creative mode or finding clever ways to get through the night in Survival mode. Fresh ideas, out-of-the-box thinking, and new perspectives are what allows us to evolve the franchise and keep surprising our players after more than a decade of Minecraft. 

Craft together. 

Minecraft welcomes everyone because we believe that we’re better together. Our players’ feedback and the work of our community creators have made Minecraft what it is today. To support collaboration in our studios, we’ve built comfy, connected spaces that allow our local and remote teams to work closely together. 

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