Senior Engineer

About Playable Worlds

Playable Worlds is a team of talented and creative game industry professionals working together on a sandbox MMO built for the cloud. Led by Raph Koster (Ultima Online; Star Wars Galaxies) Playable Worlds offers a collaborative and diverse work environment, competitive pay and benefits, and an opportunity to create new kinds of gameplay and experiences in online worlds that feel real and engaging. 

All positions at Playable Worlds are currently remote. The salary range for this position is $110,000-$130,000 annually, & stock options.  

Summary

Playable Worlds is seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced Senior Software Engineer to help bring our next generation sandbox MMORPG to life. As part of a team led by industry veterans behind Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, you’ll play a key role in building the tools, systems, and gameplay features that drive a deeply immersive, persistent online world.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, collaborative environment and is excited by the opportunity to work across disciplines, from game systems to developer tools and infrastructure. You’ll help shape not just the player experience, but also the internal workflows that empower our cross-functional team to move quickly and effectively.

If you’re passionate about crafting systems that last, not just shipping prototypes, and you want to work at the frontier of what MMOs can be, we’d love to hear from you.

Essential Job Functions

• Dive deep into complex technical challenges and deliver solutions aligned with our creative and technical vision
• Collaborate across teams to develop tools, workflows, and runtime systems that empower artists, designers, and engineers
• Build scalable, maintainable codebases in service of a persistent world with rich simulation layers
• Own your work and iterate fast, with an emphasis on quality, performance, and future-proofing
• Help foster a culture of engineering excellence and knowledge sharing

Knowledge/Skill/Ability Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  Proficiency in C# or Rust
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across disciplines
• Proven ability to context switch and contribute across multiple systems and tools
• A strong sense of ownership and initiative

Bonus Points for Any of These

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience with:
  • Systems languages like C, C++, Rust, or Go
  • Typescript
    Unity game engine
  • Cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• A passion for games and deep appreciation of MMORPGs
• Experience building tools or systems for large-scale online games
• Interest in simulation, procedural systems, or emergent gameplay design

Job descriptions are not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that may be required of the employee.

Playable Worlds Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants and providing a work environment free of illegal discrimination and harassment. More than this, we are committed to listening to as many diverse employee viewpoints as we can to make our products appealing to a wide variety of individuals. A diverse set of employees means better products that appeal to more customers and is good business sense.

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