Secret Games Co is a British game studio founded in 2012. We’re a small but experienced team working on our 5th game (and starting our 6th). We make strategy games that offer players something meaningfully different from what they can find elsewhere. Everybody on our team contributes ideas. We have secure funding and we’ve never cancelled a project.

Benefits

• Salary DOE + generous profit-sharing 
• Fully remote work
• Maximum flexibility, no office hours/days
• Minimal bureaucracy and hierarchy
• Super friendly team :)

Qualifications

• Working proficiency in English
• 1+ years of full-time paid work as a programmer at a game studio
• Lots of experience working in Unity
• Familiarity with indie dev toolset: Git, Steamworks, etc
• Can-do attitude and commitment to see a project through to completion
• Love of PC strategy games

We are looking for a junior or mid-level programmer, who will work alongside our lead programmer on Bon Vivant, which will launch in 2026. It’s a strategy / management roguelite. Instead of exploring a map and fighting a series of battles, you explore a social network of famous people from 1920s Paris and host a series of parties. A run lasts about an hour and there are 40 playable characters to discover; your goal is to earn a 3 star score with all of them. You can learn more about the project on our Discord.

Our team is small comprising a designer, artist and programmer, who are full-time, and about 5 freelancers who handle animation, audio, music, writing and video editing. We work with an external QA company and an agency, who handles our bizdev. We are lean and aim to stay that way. We each own a part of the development process and feel a real sense of authorship over the game. Everyone contributes ideas.

This role is perfect for someone, who has got some experience working at a game studio and is ready for a new challenge. You would begin working on simpler dev tasks, while our lead programmer handled the more complex stuff. Over time, you would have the opportunity to both learn from him and take over more of his responsibilities as he eventually transitioned onto our next project, Taltos, a roguelike autobattler with animal armies and async multiplayer.

We are open to candidates from anywhere in the world. We will look for proven technical proficiency and strong written communication skills, as well as an unwavering commitment to building a career in game development. In order to apply, please complete the following form. Please do not contact us, we will email candidates, whom we’d like to learn more about. Thank you for considering Secret Games Co!