General Gameplay Programmer

Job Posting — General Gameplay Programmer

Date posted: July 2026

Pay: £50,000.00 - £70,000.00 per year

Job description: General Programmer

Status: Accepting applications — awaiting seed funding close before formal offers

Company: the company Limited

Location: United Kingdom

Work arrangement: On-site, full-time

Salary: Competitive (based on experience)

Benefits: On-site parking, company pension, sick pay, team lunch and snack days, travel season ticket loan

Start date: Month 1 of seed funding

You will join the core engineering team building a large-scale real-time strategy game. You will work on systems that must remain stable, consistent and fast under heavy load — gameplay systems, networking, tools and engine infrastructure all within one codebase.

• Front-end web development or business applications
• Blueprint-only scripting without engine-level understanding
• Lightweight mobile or hyper-casual game development

• Hardcore systems programming for a large-scale PC game
• Performance‑critical code running under heavy load
• Simulation, networking, rendering integration and tools
• Problem‑solving at the intersection of mathematics, memory layout and parallel execution

You should have shipped at least one title at a recognised studio and be comfortable reading, writing and debugging complex C# or C++ systems. We are looking for engineers who think in terms of throughput, correctness and long‑term maintainability.

Supreme Commander, Sins of a Solar Empire, Star Craft, Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program — games where scale, persistence and simulation consistency matter.

• Implement and maintain core gameplay, simulation and engine systems
• Profile and optimise CPU, memory and network performance
• Collaborate on simulation architecture and replay systems
• Build internal tools for design, content and QA workflows
• Contribute to multiplayer netcode and server infrastructure
• Maintain coding standards, documentation and code review practices
• Solve hard problems involving large datasets, concurrency and numerical precision

• 5+ years professional programming experience in the games industry
• At least one shipped title from a recognised game studio
• Strong knowledge of C#; C++ experience is a significant plus
• Solid understanding of game engine architecture
• Experience with performance profiling and optimisation
• Strong debugging skills in complex, multi-system codebases
• Understanding of memory management, data‑oriented design and threading
• UK-based or willing to relocate

• Experience with Unity or Unreal Engine
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field
• Strong mathematical background, especially linear algebra, geometry and numerical methods
• Experience with consistent simulation, lockstep multiplayer or replay systems
• Graphics programming, rendering pipelines or shader experience
• Networking and multiplayer server experience
• Build systems, CI/CD and tooling experience
• Version control expertise (Git or Perforce)

• CV with project history and shipped titles
• Portfolio or code samples (Git Hub, personal site, or shared repository)
• Brief technical response: describe the most challenging performance or consistency problem you have solved in a shipped game and how you approached it
• Short technical submission: provide pseudocode and a short explanation describing how you would design and implement a major RTS system (for example: unit selection, pathfinding, order queues, fog of war, or resource management). Include your reasoning for the data structures, performance considerations and how the system scales.
• References from previous studios or leads