Lead Engineer - Remote

Overview

Ghost Story Games is seeking a talented Lead Engineer to join us on Judas, a highly anticipated game led by Ken Levine. The role involves leading teams, managing subsystems, and ensuring high-quality game features.

In Short

• Proactive feature ownership of game subsystems.
• Team-facing touchpoint for assigned systems/domains.
• Manage and develop teams of programmers.
• Support robust game features through design and implementation.
• Participate in collaboration and engineering best practices.
• Work with all departments to meet content creator needs.
• Identify innovative use cases for systems and technologies.
• Create efficient, scalable, optimized code.

Requirements

• 7+ years in the game industry with 2 shipped AAA titles.
• Experience managing teams.
• Strong knowledge of C++.
• C#/Python experience is a bonus.
• Unreal Engine 4/5 experience is required.
• Ability to enhance existing architecture.
• Software engineering skills for maintainable code.
• Experience supporting all stages of development lifecycle.
• Ability to architect systems from scratch.
• Experience developing for action games, preferably FPS.
• Ability to optimize code for performance.

Benefits

• Passion for hands-on game development.
• Ability to respond to creative changes under pressure.
• Experience with First-Person gameplay.
• Understanding of procedural design systems.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Must be eligible to work in the US.