Senior Full-Stack Game Engineer (Browser Multiplayer) - Anonymised JD

Overview

What You Will Work On

Requirements

Nice to Have

Who Will Succeed Here

• You enjoy shipping fast, iterating on gameplay, and solving real-time technical challenges. You thrive in small teams, want meaningful ownership, and understand how to build fun, responsive, and fair multiplayer experiences.

Senior Gameplay Programmer - Combat/Enemy System focus

Location: London (Hybrid - 2 days in studio per week)
Salary: £45,000 - £60,000

A leading AAA games studio is looking for a Senior Gameplay Programmer to join a small, highly collaborative gameplay team. This is a hands-on programming role where you'll help shape core combat and enemy systems for an upcoming title, while also mentoring and reviewing the work of peers.

What You'll Do

• Develop, refine, and maintain gameplay systems with a focus on combat and enemy AI behaviours.

• Write clean, performant C++ code and provide constructive code reviews for teammates.

• Collaborate closely with designers, artists, and other programmers to deliver engaging gameplay experiences.

• Support the refactoring and modernisation of legacy gameplay systems into Unreal Engine 5.

• Prototype new gameplay mechanics and iterate based on feedback from the wider team.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Gameplay Programmer in a AAA development environment.

• At least one shipped AAA title.

• Strong proficiency in C++ and Unreal Engine (UE4/UE5).

• Hands-on experience building and optimising combat mechanics (melee, ranged, abilities, targeting, combos, etc.).

• Solid understanding of enemy AI systems, including behaviours, state machines, decision trees, and pathfinding.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across disciplines.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing or building new gameplay systems from scratch.

• Background in rapid prototyping and iteration of core mechanics.

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to work on an unannounced AAA project using Unreal Engine 5.

• Collaborative and creative team culture with regular studio socials.

• Competitive base salary in line with seniority.

Integration Software Engineer

Overview

Joining V-Nova's Integration Team as a Software Engineer will give you the opportunity to work across multiple development environments and platforms with the latest video and visual content compression technology. Our core goal is to enable V-Nova's codecs and compression systems in as many scenarios as possible - such as codecs into mobile devices and web browsers, through to broadcast quality encoding infrastructure. Our more cutting-edge work integrates V-Nova technology into AI workflows, and within the latest VR headsets and GPU based cloud infrastructure to achieve compelling pixel streaming and immersive point cloud experiences. 

The integrations team day to day work is dynamic, you will experience a variety of work with some of the biggest names in media, from large social media companies through to TV manufacturers. This will also give you a good chance to develop and grow your career with a diverse, multiskilled team around you.   

You will have an interest in video and compression technology along with mobile and desktop system level development. You'll have a proactive nature and ability to listen and contribute to wide ranging technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• A significant responsibility of the integrations engineer will be developing and maintaining the integration of LCEVC (MPEG5 Part 2) into multiple operating environments with both encode and decoder capability, these include: Android (Android X/ExoPlayer for playback) iOS (AVPlayer and VTDS/VTCS frameworks), FFmpeg, JavaScript based web decoders, native Chromium browser and WebRTC, ALVR (Air Light VR).   

• Working with the decoder and encoder teams to support maintenance and improvements in the core C++ codec integration layers.  

• Integration work for other V-Nova compression solutions, such as VC6 and point cloud compression, into different video editing and creation applications.  

• Engaging with the open-source community to contribute changes upstream to video player open-source projects and assist with their integration of LCEVC.  

• Development activity planning, including sprint planning and refinement sessions discussing new features or issues to resolve during the upcoming sprint.   

• Status reporting, which may include participation in daily stand-up meetings and report back status, issues and successes.  

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant scientific/technical subjects, or work experience. 

•  Experience developing system level software for Android operating systems. 

• Experience developing software using C/C++ and other languages.   

• Interest in developing system level software for iOS or desktop operating systems for use by third party applications.  

• Interest in expanding your knowledge of video codecs and video streaming technology.  

• Excellent communication skills and comfortable providing clear accurate progress updates and able to document requirements and work completed 

• Have worked in an Agile environment working on projects using Scrum or Kanban and tools such as Jira 

   

Desirable Experience:   

• Experience developing Android applications, preferably video based using ExoPlayer or AndroidX/Media and experience using the Android NDK.  

• Experience either using or developing with/for FFmpeg or its key components 

• iOS development experience for iOS using Swift and Objective C.  

• Knowledge of video codecs, video encoding and streaming technology.  

• Experience developing or using codec software.  

• Familiarity with web browsers, WebRTC