Senior Gameplay Engineer

About E-Line Media: 

E-Line Media is a developer and publisher of video games with meaningful themes and authentic voices. Founded in 2008, the company's mission is to develop games that fire the imagination, catalyze curiosity, and provide gateways to new perspectives and interests. 

The Company is a mission-driven, for-profit enterprise whose investors seek market-level financial returns and positive social impact. Its titles include the BAFTA and Peabody award-winning Never Alone, the Jackson-Wild-winning Beyond Blue, Gamestar Mechanic, and MinecraftEDU.  

Websites

• Never Alone website: http://neveralonegame.com
• Short New Yorker film about the 'inclusive development' process for Never Alone: https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-new-yorker-presents-never-alone
• Powerful review of Never Alone by a Native American game critic: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-20-never-alone
• E-Line Media Website:  https://elinemedia.com/

About Endless Studios: 

E-Line Media and Endless Network have formed a partnership to create a new venture (Endless Studios) that harnesses the power of games and digital creation experiences to create a Metaverse of Learning -- where youth play to learn and learn to make, as they build skills to thrive in a rapidly changing, globally connected world.  

Endless Studios' first major software offering Endstar is available for free download (www.endlessstudios.com). Endstar is a community-driven creation sandbox game where you can create, play, and share all in real-time multiplayer. Endstar features a strong emphasis on learning through creation including design, art, and coding pathways.

The Company’s first service, Endless Studios (www.endlessstudios.com), operates as a highly-distributed, youth-centered game making studio where teens and young adults apprentice with game industry pros and other aspiring game makers to create games using The Endless Mission, Unity, and other creation tools.

About the position:

We are seeking an experienced Gameplay Engineer to help contribute to Endstar's development as well as helping to integrate the community into our development via mentoring, live demos, and code reviews. Endstar is built in Unity and features real-time and asynchronous play and collaborative game making, as well as UGC content creation and discovery. This position will heavily deal with mentoring and code reviews in addition to direct contribution. A core focus of this position will be the moment to moment gameplay feel. This is a full time, work-from-home position.

As our Senior Gameplay Engineer, you will …

• Work directly with the Lead Engineer and core team on internal development for Endstar;
• Directly oversee student interns from around the world in a make-to-learn internship environment;
• Give detailed feedback on code reviews and approvals on pull requests;
  

We are looking for someone who has …

• Three or more years professional programming in Unity (using C#);
• Shipped one or more games built in Unity;
• High self-motivation and drive;
• The ability to actively participate and offer creative solutions to game design challenges;
• Excellent communication and team skills;
• The ability to effectively collaborate with a team of other programmers, artists, and designers;
• Heavy experience crafting moment to moment gameplay feel;
• Proficient in writing technical documentation;

It’s a bonus if you have …

• Experience implementing networked gameplay;
  
• Experience supporting a live service;
  
• Familiarity with Unity’s NetCode for GameObjects (formerly MLAPI);
  
• Experience mentoring or teaching students to code;
  
• Samples of completed Unity game projects you have directly contributed to;
• Prior experience developing for or supporting learning, especially learning to make games.

Candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment background verification screening.

E-Line Media
values diverse perspectives and voices on our teams. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.