Lead Quest Programmer (Cyberpunk 2)

Location: Fully remote from Canada

Salary: $180,100–$247,600 CAD annually

Company

CD PROJEKT RED creates story-driven role-playing games, including Cyberpunk 2, the next major game in the Cyberpunk franchise.

What you will do

• Lead the engineering team responsible for story technologies and quest systems in Cyberpunk 2.
• Manage direct reports through 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring, promotion planning, mentoring, and career development support.
• Translate creative and narrative requirements from quest designers, content creators, leads, and directors into technical requirements.
• Drive the development, integration, maintenance, and optimization of quest features, tools, and authoring workflows.
• Collaborate with shared technology architects and maintainers across multiple projects and with cinematic, narrative, and core gameplay teams.
• Write clean, optimized, maintainable C++ code and diagnose and resolve bugs in quest features and authoring toolsets.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of professional programming experience in the AAA games industry.
• At least 1 year of experience in technical leadership, people management, or leading an engineering team.
• Strong C++ proficiency.
• Experience developing custom quest systems, narrative tools, or node-based editor workflows.
• Experience working in a highly collaborative shared technology environment spanning multiple teams or projects.
• Ability to interpret the needs of creative and less technical colleagues and translate design visions into clear technical requirements.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working across time zones and multicultural environments.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine architecture.
• Understanding of multiplayer network architecture and client-server synchronization for game state and quests.
• Experience shipping AAA games using bespoke or custom narrative and quest toolsets.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine UI tools or editor scripting for custom content tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work from Canada with flexible working hours.
• Company-paid medical healthcare including dental, vision, and mental health coverage.
• Paid leave including 26 vacation days, 10 sick days, and 12 calendar holidays annually, plus menstrual leave.
• RRSP with employer matching and a $100 monthly Lifestyle Spending Account for fitness, wellness, internet, home office equipment, learning, and other expenses.
• Professional development through trainings, lectures, workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, tutorials, and e-learning.
• International working environment, RED Parents Network support, and a casual no-dress-code workplace.