Senior Game Development Engineer (Game Development)

TL;DR

Senior Game Development Engineer (Game Development): Improving and sustaining the game's development process by engineering solutions and ensuring fast, stable, and confident development. Focus on architecting scalable solutions that support continuous integration, build health, and long-term maintainability.

Company

Escape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits, on what they believe is a once-in-a-career project with a committed publisher.

What you will do

• Collaborate with gameplay engineers, designers, artists, debug engineering, QA, and build/release teams to identify and resolve workflow inefficiencies.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing and validation frameworks within Unreal to ensure reliability and consistent build quality.
• Architect scalable solutions that support continuous integration, build health, and long-term maintainability.
• Guide the continuous evolution of development health systems — from early architecture to refinement and expansion.
• Champion a test-driven development mindset and other sustainable engineering practices that improve confidence and quality.
• Support feature and gameplay teams in integrating stable workflows, testing infrastructure, and validation practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in Games.
• Strong test-driven development mindset.
• Proven track record contributing to automation, build, or validation systems on shipped or live products.
• Familiarity with Unreal’s automation frameworks (functional tests, automation specs, or custom solutions).
• Strong C++ programming foundations with experience building and maintaining large codebases; familiarity with other relevant languages or scripting (Python, UE Blueprint, or build scripting) as needed for automation and integration tasks.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows, version control, build validation, and reporting pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully Remote - team members are supported nearly anywhere in the world.
• Prioritize honesty, autonomy, and a culture of play.
• Generous PTO allowance.
• Private Medical & Dental Healthcare, and a Private Mental Health scheme.
• A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance and Discretionary Studio Bonus.
• Top range tech for your home set up.