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!)