Director of Gameplay Engineering - Remote

Overview

Ghost Story Games is a self-publishing game development studio. Our studio designed and released award-winning games, such as System Shock 2, BioShock and BioShock Infinite. We are currently working on Judas and would love for you to be part of our team.

In Short

• Proactive feature ownership of entire game subsystems – including all aspects of development, maintenance, advocacy and documentation.
• Be a team-facing touchpoint for all assigned systems/domains.
• Manage and develop teams of programmers for work on assigned systems/domains.
• Support high quality and robust game features and systems.
• Implement tools to streamline the QA process.
• Support build automation processes.
• Support analytics backend development.
• Commitment to implementing clean and robust code.
• Experience with streaming, serialization, entity systems and core game engine technologies.
• Participate in group collaboration and utilize engineering best practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in the game industry with at least 3 shipped AAA titles.
• Experience managing teams.
• Strong knowledge of C++.
• C#/python experience a bonus.
• Unreal Engine 4/5 experience is a strong requirement.
• Ability to quickly understand existing code and enhance/extend architecture.
• Software engineering skills, including writing maintainable and robust code.
• Experience developing in and supporting all stages of the development lifecycle.
• Ability to architect systems from scratch.
• Experience developing games, preferably action and immersive sim games.

Benefits

• A passion for hands-on game development with a focus on attention to detail.
• Commitment to code quality, documentation and sound testing procedures.
• Self-motivated towards solving creative problems.
• Able to respond elegantly to difficult creative changes.
• Ability to prioritize feature requests based on design goals.
• Experience with First-Person gameplay and systems.
• Understanding of procedural design systems in games.
• Self-motivated, and able to work independently.
• Ability to work well under pressure and with deadlines.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal, and organizational skills.