Principal C++ Engineer

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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tobspr Games

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

🎮 Gaming

Gaming

tobspr Games is an independent, fully remote studio and publisher focused on factory and automation games. Founded in 2018 by Tobias Springer, the studio created minimalist and highly-rated titles such as shapez (2020) and shapez 2 (2024), along with other strategy and multiplayer browser games like YORG. io and YORG. io 3. They emphasize building exceptional games with strong UI, community involvement during development, and a commitment to shipping when a game is truly finished. The team is small and distributed across nine countries, working mostly in Germany and mixing full-time employees and freelancers. Upcoming projects include puzzlez (2027) and an unannounced large-scale factory game (Project 3).

📋 Description

• Design and build a deterministic factory simulation scaling to hundreds of thousands of player-placed buildings • Own simulation architecture, including data layout, tick model, threading, and serialization format • Collaborate with the Networking Engineer to design the simulation and co-op together • Set and meet the simulation CPU performance budget on the minimum-specification target • Review code and mentor other engineers on C++ and architecture • Work closely with the Engineering Team Lead and Game Design department • Participate in technical interviews and collaborative assessment stages

🎯 Requirements

• Professional C++ experience architecting, implementing, and maintaining performant modules used by other engineers • Deep knowledge of data-oriented design, multithreading, and performance • CPU profiling experience • Algorithmic complexity-based analysis for selecting data structures • Experience building a deterministic or lockstep system, or ability to explain an approach to one • Track record of mentoring engineers • Experience making architectural decisions in writing that others can follow and challenge • Professional working proficiency in English • 2+ shipped game titles may be an advantage • Experience with factory, automation, or simulation-heavy games may be an advantage • Unreal Engine experience, especially Mass Entity or a custom ECS in Unreal, may be an advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote employment directly inside Germany • Flexible working hours • Paid overtime, on the rare occasions it happens • Hardware budget for an ergonomic setup and required hardware • Monthly personal growth allowance for courses, books or other learning material • Focus days to research or learn new skills • Yearly team gathering to meet and collaborate in person • Yearly salary review • Automatic increase of 2% per year

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