Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Posted 13 Days Ago
2 Locations
Remote
5-7 Years Experience
Gaming • eSports
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer for Developer Experience, you will improve developer workflows, optimize build processes, enhance developer tools and assist game developers across various disciplines to ensure their development routines are efficient and productive.
Summary Generated by Built In

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience to join our team at Hypixel Studios, which collaborates remotely from around the world. Our members range from industry newcomers to experts with 25+ years of experience. Team members come from a diverse set of backgrounds, but share a common passion for building polished player-focused, community-powered games.


Join us on our mission to bring players together in an inviting, immersive world where they can make their mark. Hytale empowers creative expression across a spectrum of experiences including sandbox adventure, social play, minigames, and creativity using a suite of powerful and accessible tools.


As a Senior Software Engineer for the Developer Experience team, you will be a subject matter expert on the mechanics of our development platform. You will be a champion for developer workflows; code quality; local test and build reliability; and developer empowerment.


Who you are:

  • You have strong fundamental programming skills that you are flexible in applying across a wide range of languages and environments.
  • You love empowering developers by removing friction from the team’s tools and processes.
  • You know how to balance short term improvements with long term systems development and automation.
  • You prize the opportunity to mentor and support your colleagues.


Some of your role:

  • Collaborate with game developers  across all disciplines (Engineering, Design, Audio, Animation, UX, Art, etc) to streamline and troubleshoot their development workflows.
  • Own the design and continuous improvement of such systems as
    • Automated IDE configuration and developer onboarding.
    • Slack Automation.
    • Local build optimization.
    • Digital Content Creation pipeline optimization.
  • Work closely with our CI/CD Team to ensure “it works on my machine” translates to “it works on everyone’s machine”.


Essential Traits:

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience.
  • 3+ years of experience in analyzing and improving software development workflows.
  • Strong experience with Git, Perforce, or other modern version control solutions.
  • Team-oriented, self-motivated, and autonomous.


Bonus Traits:

  • Experience with distributed, incremental build systems (FastBuild, Bazel etc.).
  • Experience with CI/CD and build tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, CircleCI, etc.
  • Experience with tooling in the C++ ecosystem (AddressSanitizer, MTuner, Clang-Tidy, Visual Studio, IntelliJ).
  • Familiarity with quality tools and techniques such as linters, static analyzers, fuzz testing, memory analysis, etc.


We can offer:

  • Competitive salary
  • Annual Performance Bonus (APB)
  • Quality of Life increases
  • Christmas closure
  • A chance to work on a new game project with an extremely motivated team
  • Opportunities to learn and grow personally and professionally
  • A stable and secure work environment
  • The ability to work remotely


We’re looking for applicants who are self-driven, put players first, and that have a history of making cool stuff. In return, we can offer an environment that values and supports individual creativity and passion and believes in fostering new talent. We recognize the value of diversity in every sense and actively encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Top Skills

C++
The Company
140 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Founded in 2018, Hypixel Studios Ltd is a team of more than 70 globally. Hytale is the studio’s first project. The company’s goal is to apply years of collective experience in the modding and minigame server scenes to independent game development, providing community-empowering games that meet the needs of players and content creators alike.
Hypixel Studios was acquired by Riot Games in April 2020. It continues to operate as an independent studio while leveraging Riot’s expertise, technology, and resources to support the development of Hytale.
Our teams across the globe have been working hard to make this a huge success, we are driven by a great culture which we nurture as well as a passion to thrive. If you are interested in learning more about Hytale, or would like the opportunity to join our talented team, visit www.hypixelstudios.com/jobs

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