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About
Who are we?
Hypersonic Labs is building HELIX, the ultimate open-world multiplayer sandbox. We are a remote-first, international team and have raised $11M from top gaming VCs.
What's the Job?
We are looking for a Technical Director / Lead Programmer (preferably with experience creating experiences on UGC platforms) to architect, hire, and manage a team of Lua programmers to deliver a live-service open-world multiplayer game built on our own next-generation UGC platform. Core gameplay involves completing jobs, competitive game modes, and collecting/trading items such as properties and vehicles.
As such, we would like to see candidates with experience in scaling engineering teams and delivering a full game from concept to release.
What will you be doing?
- Grow, manage, and mentor a stellar development team from scratch.
- Oversee all technical aspects of the project, including client side, server side, tools teams.
- Create and maintain a solid technical architecture for the entire game and codebase.
- Collaborate and coordinate across different disciplines such as Art and Game Design teams.
- Plan and deliver a functional prototype within 2 months using existing frameworks.
What are we looking for?
- 6+ years experience in senior programmer roles, preferably in management/leadership capacity.
- Strong knowledge of the Lua programming language and network programming.
- (Bonus) Knowledge of C++ and Unreal Engine Blueprints.
- Extremely organized and effective in communication.
- Extensive experience in hiring, scaling, mentoring teams.
- Experience with working on LiveOps games.
- Able to work during US or UK time zones.
- (Bonus) Experience working with FiveM RP servers.
- (Bonus) Portfolio of solo game projects.
Apply for the job
Apply at https://hypersonic-laboratories.homerun.co/technical-director-3/en
Nice-to-have skills
- Lua
- C++
- Unreal Engine
Work experience
- Embedded
- Gaming
- Build/Release
Languages
- English