Gameplay Engineer

Job Description

ABOUT OUR TEAM

We're a group of developers, artists, and storytellers that make games full of wonder, danger, and humor. Everyone at our studio, whether an industry vet or new voice impacts each game through collaborative feedback, mutual respect, and creative empowerment. If you want to make games leave a meaningful impact on players: we want to hear from you.

We're looking for new teammates who deeply care about the work they do, the stories they tell, and the people they create with. As part of the Netflix team, we strive to hire the best and value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration.

Due to the pandemic, we are currently working from home with limited time in our studio. We plan to return to working in-person at our Los Angeles studio in the near future.

Learn how our story-loving game people came to join Netflix's team of game-loving story people.

ENGINEERING AT NIGHT SCHOOL

Coding is just as creative as other roles at Night School. Our engineering team highly values cross-disciplinary thinking. Creating great gameplay experiences requires engineers to not only imagine elegant, extensible, and optimized systems, but also to appreciate, communicate, and integrate with matters of art, design, and narrative. Here, you'll flex your ingenuity and skill in multiple areas as needs arise, whether directly in our games, as part of a development support system, or as part of our in-house storytelling toolset, NightTools.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a talented, driven, and passionate gameplay engineer to help us build the best experiences possible for our existing and upcoming games. We want someone who is not only an excellent coder with both breadth and depth of technical skills, but who also understands how implementation details affect the player experience. A qualified candidate is very skilled at coding quality gameplay systems, is familiar with Unity, and thrives in small to midsize teams.

Responsibilities:
• Implement game systems for all of Night School's live and upcoming projects
• Help maintain our game codebases by testing, analyzing, debugging, and optimizing
• Work closely with peers and leadership to develop features that are of a cohesive technical and creative vision
• Provide technical expertise to other departments where needed
• Learn new skills, tools, and workflows on the fly to adapt to current needs

About you:
• Driven to build and maintain the highest-quality experiences for players
• Skilled at writing code that is elegant, extensible, and optimized
• Proficient at giving and receiving quality critique and feedback
• Self-starter willing to seek out solutions and ask questions when necessary
• Mindful of the needs of a team as individuals and as a whole

Skills & Requirements:
• Skilled in Unity
• Significant experience in C# or C++
• Expertise in one or more areas of game engineering
• Ability to communicate effectively with other team members
• Two or more shipped games
• Desire to contribute to world-class interactive stories!
• BONUS: Experience with mobile or console development
• BONUS: Desire to contribute to world-class interactive stories!

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gpv48e-18-216-190-167-42 in your application.