Senior Unreal Engine Programmer

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SENIOR UNREAL ENGINE PROGRAMMER (JOYDROP)

*🕹* AAA Games

*🧠* Senior

*💰* Negotiable

*⏰* Full-time / Contract

*🌎* Remote EST ±3 hours

*🦄* Description

Joydrop is a boutique Triple-I co-development studio supporting well-known game projects. The company is hiring experienced Unreal Engine programmers for several intermediate and senior positions across multiple projects, with both permanent employment and six-month contracts available.

In this role, you will own platform-level systems in a shared Unreal Engine codebase, improve performance and stability, resolve complex technical issues, and support console-first live service development.

*🚀* Responsibilities

• Own and develop platform-level systems in a shared Unreal Engine codebase

• Diagnose and resolve memory corruption, race conditions, non-reproducible issues, and other complex bugs

• Identify and implement CPU, memory, and input-output performance optimizations

• Build and improve internal profiling, package management, and automation tools

• Support release management, game stability, and live service updates

• Collaborate with gameplay, engine, build, and platform teams

• Improve maintainability and reliability across shared systems

• Reduce hard-to-reproduce defects through systematic debugging and diagnostics

*📚* Required Skills

• At least 5 years of experience in AAA game development

• At least 10 years of professional C++ experience

• Strong C++ expertise in large shared codebases

• Professional experience with Unreal Engine 4 or newer

• Proven experience shipping and maintaining persistent live game services

• Console development experience

• Understanding of console certification, performance requirements, and platform constraints

• Experience with release pipelines and stability ownership

• Strong debugging skills in low-visibility and non-reproducible scenarios

• Strong system design and software architecture fundamentals

• Ability to work independently while collaborating within a shared code ownership environment

• Ability to deliver measurable performance and stability improvements quickly

• Experience using Claude Code or similar AI-assisted programming tools

*👍* Nice to Have

• At least 10 years of experience in AAA game development

• Experience with Unreal Engine 3

• Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2 development experience

• Experience with Backtrace or similar crash aggregation tools

• Experience with low-level graphics programming and rendering

• Familiarity with Unreal Game Sync

• Familiarity with Horde

• Familiarity with Gauntlet

• Experience with embedded scripting languages

• Interest in applying artificial intelligence to development workflows

*🍪* What we offer

• Permanent and six-month contract opportunities

• Fully remote work within three hours of the EST time zone

• Full-time employment

• Work on well-known AAA game projects

• Highly collaborative environment with shared code ownership

• Focus on performance, diagnostics, stability, and maintainability

• Opportunity to work on console-first live service projects

• Collaboration with experienced gameplay, engine, build, and platform teams

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