Senior Quest Designer (Unreal Engine 5)

Location: Remote from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, or Ukraine

Company

Room 8 Group is an independent external game development partner providing creative and technical expertise for AAA and AA projects across platforms, including co-development and full-cycle development.

What you will do

• Own quest lines end to end, from premise and beat structure through implementation, tuning, and polish.
• Translate region briefs and design intent into quest structures, objective flows, content maps, and coherent regional content.
• Build and script quests in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprint, in-house tooling, and data-driven configuration.
• Block out and reshape quest spaces, layouts, sightlines, navigation, and readability as needed.
• Tune objectives, rewards, difficulty, pacing, and progression for solo and cooperative play.
• Collaborate with Narrative, Game Design, and Technical Design, participate in playtests, and maintain documentation and content quality.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional Level Design experience, including substantial quest or mission design for PC or console titles.
• At least one shipped title involving level layouts and quest or mission content.
• Strong skills in blockout, layout iteration, navigation, readability, and spatial pacing.
• Expertise in Unreal Engine 5, Blueprint scripting, layout and blockout tools, and data-driven gameplay implementation.
• Experience designing systemic quest lines, cooperative content, shared progression, and drop-in/drop-out multiplayer sessions.
• Ability to work autonomously within agreed briefs and milestones and collaborate in a distributed co-development setup.

Nice to have

• Experience with survival, life-simulation, base-building, or crafting-driven games.
• Familiarity with high-fantasy settings and shared multiplayer worlds.
• Experience scripting emergent moments, dynamic world events, repeatable systemic content, cinematic moments, or ambient storytelling.
• Understanding of difficulty curves, player power scaling, and editorial-level content review.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive financial reward.
• Projects created with major global game publishers and developers.
• Private medical care and paid time off.
• Diversity and inclusion-focused culture.
• Community of game development professionals.