Sentient Play is looking for an experienced, talented Lead Engineer to help us explore, create, and deliver innovative games. Become one of the founding members pathfinding a remote-first studio. You will lead all engineering efforts, taking on the role of tech lead and people manager for the studio. You will be a team leader and a team player who can collaborate across disciplines in a fun and inclusive environment, sharing ideas and expertise while maintaining a bigger picture view of the product.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and code well-architected, scalable solutions
• Create a healthy working environment, ensuring positive scenarios of success for your team
• Mentor engineers on architecture, coding and systems design best practices
• Guide features through full development cycle – from rapid prototyping, evolving through production development, iteration/balancing, bug fixing, and performance optimization
• Support an agile, fail-fast methodology when discovering and exploring gameplay 
• Author appropriate technical documents and artifacts for all stages of the software development life cycle

Requirements

• Shipped at least one significant and relevant PC or console title as a lead
• Advanced knowledge of C# programming, design patterns and software engineering
• 3D and data structures knowledge, with performance-minded development and optimization skills
• Aptitude for providing feedback, noting potential issues, and mentoring junior coders
• Collaborative with a multi-discipline team, empowering artists and designers
• Capable of understanding complex tasks to produce results efficiently
• Ability to combine visual, audio, and haptic feedback to create convincing and fun interactions
• Experience working professionally with Unity
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Desired experience:

• 8+ years proven experience for 3+ published PC or console titles with online multiplayer and/or live services
• Working experience with Steam multiplayer api’s and/or other common peer-to-peer crossplay networking solutions
• Extensive familiarity with basebuilding survival and ARPGs
• C++, Python, and other languages and game engines are a bonus