Joydrop, a boutique, "Triple-I" co-dev game development studio, is hiring for multiple Intermediate and Senior roles on various projects, both permanent and 6-month contract. Submit your interest below; shortlisted candidates will be contacted to provide a LinkedIn profile and/or CV.

We augment the staff of world famous games you've definitely heard of and most likely play.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve platform-level systems in a shared Unreal codebase
• Diagnose and resolve complex, low-signal bugs (memory corruption, race conditions, non-repro issues)
• Identify and implement performance optimizations across CPU, memory, and IO
• Build and improve internal tooling (profilers, package management, automation)
• Support release management, stability, and live service updates
• Collaborate with gameplay, engine, and build teams

Required Experience

• 5+ years in AAA game development
• Proven experience shipping and maintaining live, persistent game services
• Strong C++ expertise in large, shared codebases, 10+ years with C++ in general
• Unreal Engine 4 or newer
• Console development experience (cert, performance, platform constraints)
• Experience with release pipelines and stability ownership
• Strong debugging capability in low-visibility scenarios
• Solid system design and architecture fundamentals

Preferred

• 10+ years in AAA game development
• Unreal Engine 3 experience
• Nintendo Switch (1 or 2) development
• Experience with crash aggregation tools such as Backtrace
• Experience with low-level graphics programming and rendering 
• Familiarity with Unreal Game Sync, Horde, Gauntlet
• Experience with embedded scripting languages
• Interest in applying AI to development workflows

What Success Looks Like

• You are an independent individual contributor, but enjoy working with a team
• Can impact with measurable improvements in performance and stability in a short amount of time
• Your code reduces in hard-to-reproduce defects with clever and creative approaches to bug-hunting
• You're comfortable in using Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted programming tools

Environment

• High-collaboration, shared code ownership
• Heavy focus on performance, diagnostics, and maintainability
• Console-first constraints with live service demands