Senior Unreal Engine Networking Engineer

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🔥 49 minutes ago

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎮 Game 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 co-op networking for the game, from session flow to replication • Work with the Principal C++ Engineer to keep the deterministic simulation synchronized between players without excessive bandwidth use or delays • Profile and fix network performance, latency, and desynchronization issues • Set up tooling for early and frequent multiplayer testing • Document and train Engineers and Designers on the networking model • Join a new game team as one of its first engineers • Work closely with the Principal C++ Engineer and Engineering Team Lead • For the permanent role, contribute as a generalist outside networking • Build co-op multiplayer for the studio's next factory game in Unreal Engine 5, involving hundreds of thousands of machines

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level networking engineering experience • At least 1 shipped title involving networking in Unreal Engine 4 or 5, using C++ • Hands-on experience with Unreal's replication system, including replication graph and dormancy • Experience with RPCs and network relevancy • Good judgment about what uses Unreal replication versus the deterministic simulation • Experience with deterministic lockstep or input-based networking, or ability to explain an approach • Experience with Steam networking or online subsystems may be beneficial • Experience shipping co-op in a building, survival, or factory game may be beneficial • Experience with the new UE replication system, Iris, may be beneficial • For the permanent role, broad Unreal experience outside networking • For permanent employment, ability to work directly inside Germany • Professional working proficiency in English • Availability for critical meetings and collaboration during approximately 11:00–15:00 CET core hours

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote; direct employment inside Germany • Flexible working hours • Paid overtime, on the rare occasions it happens • Hardware budget for ergonomic setup and work 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 2% annual salary increase • Recruitment process accommodations available on request

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