Founding Game Developer

Location: Montreal

Summary  We’re hiring an experienced game developer to help us design and build delightful user interfaces and games using modern web technology. Our product includes generative AI tools and real-time collaborative, multiplayer experiences so we are looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of interactive art & code. As part of the founding team, you’ll be in at the ground floor to define the product, the culture, and the game’s client architecture for the company.
Who We Are  Storycraft is founded on the belief that anyone should be able to tell their stories through games.
Our product is an AI-Generated-Content (AIGC) gaming platform that reimagines how story driven video games are created, by letting creators deliver daily, episodic game content to their player base. Storycraft uses generative AI to create maps, characters, in-game objects, to power a new type of creative gameplay where truly anything can happen.
The co-founders Andy and Adam are serial AI and gaming entrepreneurs. For Storycraft they have partnered with and raised capital from some of the best regarded firms in both gaming (LVP - investors of Supercell, Unity, etc) and consumer products (Signal Fire - investors in Grammarly, Clubhouse, etc). We are currently hiring the founding team and looking for folks who are keen to innovate at the intersection of generative AI, social gaming, and storytelling.
Day-to-day you’ll be supported by a full-stack, code-writing CTO, and collaborating with a Game UX Designer (responsible for game and UI design), Creative AI Developer (responsible for the AI models + assets), and a Senior Backend Developer (responsible for your server infrastructure).
What You’ll Be Doing   Build rapid prototypes to help us iterate on our early game design and creator tools.
Evaluate our AI experiments and assets by building prototypes that integrate them.
Set up our build and continuous deployment system for the game client so we can easily share your prototypes.
Build the frontend flows for creating AI-backed characters, objects, and maps for role playing games.
Define the tech stack and architecture for the game clients that we will use to move fast and evolve towards production scale. You’ll own the entire client experience from gameplay to UI programming.
Set our performance budgets so we avoid designing an AI-backed asset pipeline that won’t feel great on mobile phones.
Imagine new approaches for connecting AI hallucinations to game systems leading to new types of story-driven gameplay.
Things You’ve Done   Advanced in your development career to a senior level position or beyond.
Written tons of testable UI and game logic code using Type Script. Alternatively you’re an expert at C# and able to learn the web stack quickly with our support.
Developed, tested, and shipped performant and professionally designed mobile games.
Built and discarded many prototypes in the early design phase of game development. Relished the process of discovering what’s fun through rapid prototyping.
Designed, configured, and fixed build systems so you and your team could iterate with speed and confidence.
Encountered the challenges and design patterns associated with multiplayer games.
Gone deep into the core technologies underneath your chosen frameworks. Gone into detail on topics like async programming, design patterns, and networking.
Considered composability, performance, and design systems while respecting the fact that startups need to ship fast and avoid over-engineering.
Collaborated with backend teams to define API interfaces so you can push your work forward independently.
Collaborated with your design teams to ensure you design an asset pipeline that delivers images, sounds, and videos that are as light as possible…