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 Sr. 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)

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) (contract)

Novaly Studios is a global, fully remote team with members in the US, Canada, UK, Taiwan, Indonesia and Brazil

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