Gameplay Engineer
We're a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard with a 25 day minimum enforced. We play games together, we work hard together.
Summary:
Netspeak Games is a growing games studio with the need of Gameplay Engineers that will build, plan and implement key aspects of our games. Working closely with technical designers to ensure we can build out wholesome enjoyable experiences for players.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate closely with Technical Designers, Game Designers and Software Engineers to build out gameplay experiences
Using Unreal both with visual programming and C++ to implement gameplay features
Take gameplay features from concept to completion through iterative development
Manage priorities efficiently and communicate clearly about any problems or blockers
Work with Technical Designers to ensure underlying features are available to be brought to life within our games
Work with Software Engineers to ensure tooling, systems and libraries are available to the team
Be the point of contact for features you’ve worked on, and be in charge of creating and updating any relevant documentation
Work with the Commercial team to implement analytics to measure the impact of features
Your Mission:
Netspeak has three pillars: Excellence, Commercial & Inclusion.
We aim to build worlds that people want to spend time in. Your mission is to build out game features that bring these worlds to life. You will be working with a range of other people in the company from Technical Designers, Producers and other Software Engineers. An ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical colleagues is absolutely essential, finding the balance between technical feasibility and design requirements.
Experience and Skills:
Experience building games; using game engines and systems to build out a fun experience for our players
Experience working with a game engine such as Unreal
Strong communication skills
Above all else, a willingness to learn!
- Department
- Programming
- Locations
- London Office
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Yearly salary
- £40,000 - £70,000
London Office
Perks and benefits
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⚡️ Time to recharge
To do your best work, you need healthy work/life balance, headspace, and plenty of time to recharge your creative batteries! We finish early on Fridays and operate with zero-cruch. We also don't set a limit on paid time off, and make sure everyone takes at least 25 days annual leave.
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👶 Families welcome!
We offer enhanced pay support for pregnant employees.
(Weeks 1 – 12 at 100% pay. Weeks 13 - 20 at 50% pay. Weeks 21 – 24 at 25% pay. Weeks 25 – 39 at the Statutory Maternity Pay rate).
For secondary carers we offer four weeks at 100% pay. Several Netspeakers are proud parents, and we’re often happily treated to guest baby appearances in meetings!
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🎓 Monthly learning
We want all Netspeakers to grow, experiment, learn, and develop while they’re here. Every month, we devote half a day to independent learning - setting time aside to read books, attend talks, try out new things, skill up via courses & more.
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✨ Work together, play together
Our games are fun. Our workplace should be too! We’re a friendly bunch, always looking for a chance to do playful stuff as a team. We run D&D Thursdays, MTG lunches, and all Netspeakers are invited to play games together for the last hour of every Tuesday. (Expect frequent tasty treats through the post too!)
Remote first
What you bring to the table is way more important than where you sit at it. If you’ve got the stuff, you’re a Netspeaker - whether you’re working from home, our London office, your local hotdesk, or all three.
Diversity & inclusion
We’re committed to making Netspeak an equal & empowering workplace, for all.
Our internal D&I working group regularly explores ways we can better represent marginalised groups in our game, Sunshine Days. Meanwhile in the real world, we’re working hard to welcome and support staff from all backgrounds, races, beliefs, identities, sexualities & more.
We’re also dedicated to remaining open and transparent about what we’re doing to be inclusive at Netspeak, and what we still need to work on. Right now, we’re 60% female and minority genders, 30% LGBTQIA, and 20% BIPOC. Our senior team is 50% male/female and 8% BIPOC.
All work, all play
We’re an ambitious studio with big dreams! So pushing ourselves to do our best work is kind of a given. The pay-off? We really take care of our staff. Providing unlimited holiday, monthly learning sessions, early-finish Fridays & more 💛
About Netspeak Games
Hi 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games!
Netspeak was founded on the idea that great games start with great, happy teams. So from the very beginning, we’ve made it our mission to build a company with people at its heart.
Creativity, care, and community is our DNA. Here, we celebrate our differences. Cherish our imperfections. Seek and value diversity. We’re energetic, joyful makers, daring to do things differently. And we’ve worked hard to build a company culture that empowers our team to be their brilliant, best, authentic selves.
Pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity, we build beautifully-crafted wholesome games, designed to surprise & delight! 💛
Gameplay Engineer
We're a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard with a 25 day minimum enforced. We play games together, we work hard together.
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