Principal Engineer

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October 8

🤠 Texas – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Eleventh Hour Games

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Gaming

Eleventh Hour Games is an all-remote indie game development studio focused on creating immersive gaming experiences. They are currently working on the action role-playing game (ARPG), Last Epoch, which involves players traveling through time and exploring a world filled with dark empires, wrathful gods, and untouched wilds. The studio is passionate about building creative worlds and is looking for talented individuals to join their remote team.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🎮 Gaming

📋 Description

• Lead engineering efforts across core systems, gameplay features, tools, and pipelines. • Partner with design and art leadership to translate creative vision into technical solutions. • Establish and maintain engineering standards, workflows, and best practices for the Unreal team. • Provide technical mentorship to engineers, driving code quality and professional growth. • Define performance targets and corresponding benchmarks • Architect scalable systems to support complex gameplay • Serve as a key technical partner to studio leadership, contributing to long-term strategy and planning. • Review, evaluate, and improve engineering practices across the studio to ensure efficiency and sustainability.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional game development experience • History of shipping at least one AAA or large-scale AA title in a senior or principal engineering capacity. • Proficiency in C++ • Experience optimizing performance across platforms (PC and console). • Background in systems architecture, with ability to design maintainable, scalable solutions. • Experience in mentoring engineers, code review, and setting technical standards. • Excellent cross-discipline collaboration and communication skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• 90% premium paid for employee, 100% premium paid for dependents health insurance • Dental and Vision with employee contributions • 35 Paid time off days, received at start of the year • Flexible fully remote working arrangements