Senior Gameplay Engineer

About the role

Eleventh Hour Games, a fast-growing studio focused on top-down action RPGs, is hiring a Senior Gameplay Engineer. The role plays a key part in shaping the technical direction of the studio, building systems, mentoring engineers across gameplay and tools, and ensuring technical excellence throughout the pipeline. It is fully remote and works with a global team.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to engineering work across core systems, gameplay features, tools and pipelines
• Partner with design and art leadership to turn creative vision into technical solutions
• Set and maintain engineering standards, workflows and best practices
• Mentor engineers and drive code quality and professional growth
• Define performance targets and benchmarks, and build scalable systems for complex gameplay
• Improve engineering practices for efficiency and sustainability, and foster a collaborative engineering culture
• Help the Development Director mentor engineers and bridge high-level vision with hands-on engineering

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional game development experience
• History of shipping at least one AAA or large-scale AA title in a senior or principal engineering capacity
• Experience mentoring engineers, code review and setting technical standards
• Excellent cross-discipline collaboration and communication skills

Required skills

• Proficiency in C++ or C#
• Performance optimization across PC and console platforms
• Systems design background with maintainable, scalable solutions
• Preferred: multiplayer networking and online systems, ARPG or action combat knowledge, and building for GAAS