Intermediate Gameplay Engineer (Game Development)

Location: UK remote or West Midlands-based

Company

Independent game developer studio working on AAA titles and intellectual properties with established studio and publisher partners.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain gameplay features, player movement, technical systems, and game content.
• Investigate, debug, test, and resolve technical issues with robust and maintainable fixes.
• Contribute to procedural world and content-generation systems designed for flexibility, scalability, and performance.
• Implement and maintain features across modern game engines and custom-engine environments.
• Support system integrations and improve existing game systems.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, artists, and QA to deliver high-quality technical solutions and communicate progress, risks, and dependencies.

Requirements

• Experience developing gameplay features, player movement, technical systems, or game content in a game-development environment.
• Strong familiarity with modern game-engine and custom-engine development workflows.
• Understanding of procedural worlds, content generation, and scalable gameplay systems.
• Ability to investigate, debug, and resolve technical issues methodically.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Clear communication and an effective collaborative approach across disciplines.

Culture & Benefits

• Friendly and supportive environment with opportunities to build games at an ambitious studio.
• Work on market-leading AAA titles and IP with reputable studio and publisher partners.
• Join a sustainably growing independent game developer working across internal and external projects.
• Opportunities to learn across a wide range of game-development projects.

Hiring process

• Submit a portfolio and cover letter.
• Provide online portfolio links where possible, or showreels through Dropbox or another secure sharing platform.
• Previous-work samples must be cleared for release by the relevant copyright owners.