Hi developers!
We're Novaly Studios (novaly.net), a fully remote team with nearly 1.3 BILLION plays and 40,000 concurrent players on average across our Roblox games portfolio. All of our games today are built by us - no acquisitions! :)
We are looking for a Gameplay Engineer to help us lead the development of several popular Roblox titles (note: the position requires high proficiency with Lua & knowledge of Roblox's APIs. Experience in developing a social roleplay game is a big plus)
Benefits
- Around $70,000 per year in salary + additional team pay when games hit milestones
- Informal, fun work environment
- Fully remote + flexible work hours (only 1 meeting day per week)
- Potential path to equity in our startup*
- Culture: strongly value growing together -> taking ownership, getting work done, releasing engaging features that resonate with the player base, improving tooling and automation, and being great teammates to one another
Responsibilities
- Engineering lead to one or multiple popular projects
- Produce gameplay features that resonate with the player base
- Mentor Jr. and new hire engineers
- Partner with other types of developers: game designers, modelers and artists to get features done
- Contribute to team automation and tooling
- Write clean, bug-free, maintainable and playtested code
Qualifications
- 5+ years in professional development (top games, corporate software)
- Experience with git, rojo, react / roact, roblox-ts
- Full-time commitment: not in college or working other jobs
- Able to mentor Jr. and new hire engineers
- Able to take ownership and work autonamously (is not looking for constant task tickets to follow)
- Non-dogmatic in how to go about solving problems (open and willing to listen to others)
- Highly communicative and proficient in English
Nice to have
- A Roblox native (years of being a player + developer on Roblox)
- Worked on a genre diverse selection of games
- Likes working on multiple projects concurrently
- Strong in performance diagnosis (microprofiler, heap breakdown)
- Contributed to open source projects in the past
- Created plugins in the past
- Enjoys working on open source standards, automation, tooling and shared components re-usable across games
Compensation
- 5k USD & above (depending on experience and location) (temporary contract)
- Novaly Studios is a global, fully remote team with members in the US, Canada, UK, Taiwan, Indonesia and Brazil
