Senior Software Engineer, Gaming

About the job

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more. This role will be a senior engineering role at one of our clients that are early stage all the way to IPO / Private companies.

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more. If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients. We are currently looking for passionate Backend Engineers to join their founding team who are excited to build from the ground up. You will be able to own game-specific backend features (matchmaking, user challenges, etc.), data engineering, architectural and infrastructure work to help optimize and scale the system to great heights and create the best experience for players.

What We're Looking For

• A passionate engineer: You love to take on difficult, seemingly impossible technical problems and dig in to find creative ways to solve them
• A hard worker: You love to put in the extra effort, not because you are told, but because you enjoy your work and know the impact of finishing the tasks on hand
• A passionate gamer: You are a gamer who grew up playing games and can recognize what separates exceptional games from the average ones. You understand the mindset of gamers which enables you to create and implement features that will further benefit the game

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 2-4 years of software development experience
• Proficiency in Unreal Engine
• Proficiency in C++ or similar object-oriented languages
• Experience with GIT or similar source control systems

Desired Skills

• Thorough understanding of UE4 architecture and preferred pipelines
• Good understanding of the Unreal Engine SDK including C++ and Blueprints, multiplayer, UI, AI, animation, optimization
• 2+ years of experience in Game development
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of concurrent programming
• Experience with build systems, continuous integration and deployment
• A background working with asset management systems, asset bundles, and in particular downloadable content (DLC)