Senior Full-Stack UI Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Full-Stack UI Engineer (Vue3/Lua): Enhancing and modernizing in-game user interfaces using web technologies with an accent on real-time data handling, stringent responsiveness, and game-like limitations. Focus on building performant Vue UIs, defining Lua contracts, optimizing for 60 FPS feel, and ensuring stability in long-running sessions.

Remote or onsite (Bremen, Germany); relocation assistance if applicable

Company

Independent studio since 2013 developing BeamNG.drive, a real-time soft-body physics game available on Steam, with 80+ employees from 29 nationalities headquartered in Bremen, Germany.

What you will do

• Build UI features end-to-end: implement Vue UI, define clean UI↔Lua contracts, collaborate with Lua specialists.
• Profile and optimize UI for speed and stability to achieve 60 FPS feel and leak-free long sessions.
• Handle real-time data streams and events while keeping UI responsive.
• Own navigation and input correctness for gamepad/keyboard-first UI.
• Improve developer tooling, pipelines, and performance instrumentation.
• Review code, support juniors, maintain high quality.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills in English
• Deep web fundamentals: browser rendering, JS runtime, performance diagnosis.
• Proven UI performance experience in large, update-heavy, long-running apps.
• Strong JavaScript: pragmatic code aware of allocations and reactivity costs.
• Vue 3 expertise: Composition API, reactivity, performance debugging.
• Basic Lua knowledge to collaborate with specialists.
• Small-team mindset, platform awareness across PC to Steam Deck.

Nice to have

• Experience with embedded browser/game UIs, realtime dashboards, telemetry.
• Knowledge of input systems.
• Familiarity with C/C++ or engine integration.
• Incremental legacy UI migration experience.
• UI testing/automation setup.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Language courses, talent and personal development programs, training budget.
• Budget for home office, parental leave, employee assistance program.
• Inclusive environment valuing diversity, empathy, respect, creativity, continuous learning.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with HR.
• Technical interview.
• Stakeholder interview.