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SENIOR UNREAL ENGINE PROGRAMMER (JOYDROP)
AAA Games
Senior
Negotiable
⏰ Full-time / Contract
Remote EST ±3 hours
Description
Joydrop is a boutique Triple-I co-development studio supporting well-known game projects. The company is hiring experienced Unreal Engine programmers for several intermediate and senior positions across multiple projects, with both permanent employment and six-month contracts available.
In this role, you will own platform-level systems in a shared Unreal Engine codebase, improve performance and stability, resolve complex technical issues, and support console-first live service development.
Responsibilities
- Own and develop platform-level systems in a shared Unreal Engine codebase
- Diagnose and resolve memory corruption, race conditions, non-reproducible issues, and other complex bugs
- Identify and implement CPU, memory, and input-output performance optimizations
- Build and improve internal profiling, package management, and automation tools
- Support release management, game stability, and live service updates
- Collaborate with gameplay, engine, build, and platform teams
- Improve maintainability and reliability across shared systems
- Reduce hard-to-reproduce defects through systematic debugging and diagnostics
Required Skills
- At least 5 years of experience in AAA game development
- At least 10 years of professional C++ experience
- Strong C++ expertise in large shared codebases
- Professional experience with Unreal Engine 4 or newer
- Proven experience shipping and maintaining persistent live game services
- Console development experience
- Understanding of console certification, performance requirements, and platform constraints
- Experience with release pipelines and stability ownership
- Strong debugging skills in low-visibility and non-reproducible scenarios
- Strong system design and software architecture fundamentals
- Ability to work independently while collaborating within a shared code ownership environment
- Ability to deliver measurable performance and stability improvements quickly
- Experience using Claude Code or similar AI-assisted programming tools
Nice to Have
- At least 10 years of experience in AAA game development
- Experience with Unreal Engine 3
- Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2 development experience
- Experience with Backtrace or similar crash aggregation tools
- Experience with low-level graphics programming and rendering
- Familiarity with Unreal Game Sync
- Familiarity with Horde
- Familiarity with Gauntlet
- Experience with embedded scripting languages
- Interest in applying artificial intelligence to development workflows
What we offer
- Permanent and six-month contract opportunities
- Fully remote work within three hours of the EST time zone
- Full-time employment
- Work on well-known AAA game projects
- Highly collaborative environment with shared code ownership
- Focus on performance, diagnostics, stability, and maintainability
- Opportunity to work on console-first live service projects
- Collaboration with experienced gameplay, engine, build, and platform teams