Top Game Developer Jobs

Leads backend engineering teams building and operating studio-hosted services for a live multiplayer game. Owns service architecture, infrastructure, APIs, deployment, monitoring, incident response, performance, disaster recovery, and platform integrations. Manages planning, hiring, engineering standards, releases, CI/CD, and on-call operations while contributing code and technical designs. Requires extensive server-side development experience, backend leadership on a shipped AAA title, and expertise in scalable distributed systems and AWS production services.

Own the implementation, hardening, and polish of game AI behaviors and systems for shipping. Collaborate with design, animation, and other disciplines to tune AI features and support the creative vision. Ensure reliable, stable enemy behaviors and enhance existing architecture. The role requires deep Unreal Engine and modern game AI experience, strong C++ skills, animation systems knowledge, and at least one shipped game title focused primarily on AI.

Leads backend engineering for studio-hosted online game services, managing engineers across US and EU studios while owning service architecture, infrastructure, APIs, deployment, monitoring, and incident response. The role combines hands-on C# development with team leadership, roadmap planning, continuous integration, hotfixes, performance optimization, disaster recovery, platform integrations, and live-service operations for a multiplayer AAA game.

Develop and modify 2D games with Defold and Lua, including game mechanics, player controls, UI, animations, debugging, and performance optimization. Complete advanced game development tasks, document workflows step by step, and create clear technical instructions and prompts for AI training. The role also requires screen recording and clear English communication.

Build and maintain multi-platform game build systems for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Develop CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code, package and distribute game assets, manage artifacts, and optimize build times. The role also involves compiling code, debugging development issues, supporting cloud infrastructure, and collaborating with game development teams on reliable deployment workflows.

Develop and optimize Unreal Engine systems using C++, focusing on rendering, physics, animation, asset processing, performance profiling, memory, multithreading, and engine infrastructure. Apply AI coding tools and automation to improve development workflows, debugging, testing, and productivity. Collaborate with engineers and technical artists on engine integration, cross-platform development, documentation, and technical support.

Build small game projects and interactive scenes in a major game engine for AI assessment tasks. Create realistic gameplay bugs and multifaceted feature challenges, write clear task briefs and success criteria, develop reference solutions, and conduct thorough playtesting. Candidates should have game development experience, a strong portfolio, proficiency in Unity, Godot, or Unreal, familiarity with relevant scripting languages, debugging skills, and strong technical writing ability.

Build and maintain the core gameplay recorder, including capture, encoding, hooks, and game integrations such as auto-clipping. Design scalable architecture, establish guardrails and best practices, improve maintainability, and enable safe contributions across teams. Collaborate closely with engineers, share knowledge, pair with teammates, and optimize performance-driven features. The role is hands-on and requires working onsite in New York City five days per week.

Owns the implementation, hardening, tuning, and polish of game AI behaviors and systems for shipping quality. Collaborates with design, animation, and other disciplines to create believable enemy behavior and strong player experiences. The role requires expertise in Unreal Engine, modern game AI architecture, animation systems, and C++, along with experience shipping at least one game focused primarily on AI, preferably a AAA action or FPS title.

Distinguished Engineer responsible for defining Nike’s long-term technology strategy across global consumer, marketplace, commerce, and digital experience platforms. The role leads large-scale architecture, cloud modernization, AI and agentic commerce adoption, engineering productivity, reliability, scalability, security, observability, and FinOps initiatives. This senior technical authority influences multiple organizations, advises executives, mentors technical leaders, and drives innovation across Nike App, SNKRS, Nike.com, personalization, partner experiences, and data and AI platforms.

Develop and ship gameplay features, UI, and systems for the open-source Threadbare game using an existing codebase. Responsibilities include debugging, performance and stability improvements, testing, code reviews, planning, tooling, documentation, and collaboration with design and art. The role also involves reviewing learner code, providing written mentorship, supporting educational tooling, and participating in occasional community events.

Build and maintain production-quality gameplay systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Provide technical guidance on simulation and networking, and collaborate with designers, artists, content creators, and engine teams to develop game-building systems and tools for an unannounced PlayStation project from pre-production through release.

Develop and maintain engine-level systems, game modding tools, and editor extensions. Implement and optimize rendering pipelines and shaders using DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL/Metal. Profile and optimize CPU/GPU/memory and multithreaded workloads, debug complex graphics issues, and collaborate with engineers, artists, and designers to deliver high-quality, maintainable C++ engine code.

Develop and implement mobile games using Unity for iOS and Android. Collaborate with teams on gameplay features and optimization, ensuring quality code and user experience.

Lead and execute cross-team initiatives to improve developer experience: build production AI integrations and developer tools, define build/release standards, eliminate CI/source-control bottlenecks, and drive technical strategy and operational excellence across Riot.

Architect, build, and operate ML inference and deployment infrastructure (model serving, orchestration, CI/CD, feature stores). Improve developer experience, optimize GPU/CPU scheduling and performance, and establish ML deployment best practices across Riot’s production ML ecosystem while shaping long-term platform direction.

Build end-to-end live streaming and game features across frontend and backend for a high-scale, bursty consumer product. Ship reliable, performant real-time systems using AI-assisted development, and own features from development through production and monitoring.

Senior game developer to design and build online gaming products using C++, OpenGL/OpenGL ES and XNA. Requires graphics and OOP fundamentals, cross-platform development, SDLC experience, project management and client-facing skills. US work authorization and willingness to relocate to CA required. Contract (Corp-to-Corp).

Develop game software using C/C++, C#, Objective-C and .NET; implement graphics with DirectX or OpenGL/ES; work with SQL, SOAP/REST services; use tools like Visual Studio, Xcode, SN System, and Unity 3D. Must be authorized to work in the US.

As a Game UX Engineer at Spawn, you'll create emotional connections through AI-driven character designs, reward systems, and onboarding experiences while ensuring they feel cohesive.

As a Game Engineer, you'll create engaging gameplay experiences by building physics engines and optimizing graphics for AI-generated game mechanics. You'll shape how games feel through features like animations and responsiveness without predefined designs.

Lead the design and development of core gameplay systems, mentor engineers, enforce coding standards, and manage technical collaboration.

Responsible for developing and supporting responsive web applications, collaborating on larger features and independently managing smaller tasks while writing clean code.

Architect and develop responsive web applications for internal users. Requires significant experience in game design and technical proficiency in various programming languages.

Senior graphics engineer responsible for building and maintaining production-quality C++ gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, evolving rendering systems (lighting, materials, particles, post-process, shadows), collaborating with artists to implement stylized rendering and shaders, optimizing CPU/GPU/memory performance, and diagnosing/fixing graphics and pipeline issues.