Software Engineer, Associate-Mid

At Frostkeep Studios, we are always looking for talented, smart and creative people who share our vision of making the best games we possibly can. As a small company, we consider ourselves a family and we’re hoping to find more team players with a multitude of skills who want to grow with us. We have big plans ahead for our studio and its first game, Rend, and are looking for a passionate software engineer to help us take it forward into the future. For this position, we're willing to consider both junior level and staff level engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Work alongside our design and art teams to design and implement game features in UE4
  • With some guidance, work closely with the design team on feature development in an ad-hoc fashion
  • Solving problems, developing features, and fixing bugs as they arrive
  • Helping with emerging live issues as they arrive

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals and ability to focus on collaborative problem solving
  • Fluent in C++ (secondary languages are a bonus)
  • Ability to think both tactically and strategically when it comes to systems and implementation
  • Eagerness to work on many different parts of the game and break down knowledge silos
  • Self-starter that will constantly seek to improve Rend while working independently
  • Enthusiastic learner, always seeking to level up development skills
  • Passionate about writing clean and highly performant code
  • Some games industry experience and basic understanding of survival games

Pluses

  • Unreal Engine experience
  • Tools experience
  • Build and infrastructure experience
  • Gameplay experience
  • Server experience

Frostkeep Studios is located in sunny Southern California in the city of Irvine, just a block from the Irvine Transit Station allowing for easy travel to the studio. Frostkeep Studios offers great benefits, including several work-from-home opportunities, new hardware, unlimited PTO, and more!

We look forward to hearing from you. Please reach out to us with your resume and cover letter at jobs@frostkeep.com. (Candidates only, no recruiters please!)