Senior Engineer | C++ | Game Engine | Remote | Aaa Xbox Partnered Studio

Senior-level responsibility for feature architecture & development, refactoring and bug fixing in a complex C++ game engine. You will have a high degree of autonomy and in the future will be expected to oversee / manage a small number of less-experienced engineers.

To excel in this role you should understand game engine design and have experience working with or creating game engines.

We focus on building resilient and robust code bases. We take advantage of code quality tools as much as possible (e.g. capturing constraints at the type level; linting; autoformatting). Code-review is a standard across our projects. While we don't practice TDD, we do aim to develop automated testing at every level where it makes sense.

Many of the people in our current team, including most of our leadership roles, are active programmers and we are therefore personally invested in maintaining dev environments and workflows that are dev-friendly. You will be encouraged to suggest and help develop improvements to your own working environment as part of your role.

We are working on a beloved franchise with a long history. The ideal candidate would also be an Age II player/fan, but as a minimum you will be willing to play the games you will be working on!

Please include a cover letter with your application.

This role is full time (~40 hours a week).

Skills & Experience

Required Technologies

C++

Desirable Technologies

WPF / WPFG

Rust

Unreal Engine

Experience

5+ years developing in complex software projects

3+ years in complex C++ projects

Previously worked with a desktop game engine

Ideally would have in-depth knowledge about game engine design (e.g. you have written your own game engine in the past)

The ideal candidate would also be an Age II player.

Compensation

As a remote international company, our compensation is determined by considering competitive market rates, experience, and cost of living.

Projects

As our projects are still in early stages, some details are limited but more information will be shared as applicants progress further in the interview process.

About CaptureAge

CaptureAge is a company that grew out of the Age of Empires community and is now partnered with Microsoft / XBox Game Studios to provide game development services in AAA titles like Age of Empires II and Age of Empires IV. We are looking for people to join us who share our passion for one or both of these titles.

Hours / Time Management

We have a flexible approach to time-management and we believe in giving team members the opportunity to control their own schedules. We'd like to see a world in which work can fit around your life, not the other way around! In practice this generally means a few pre-agreed sync points a week, with the rest of your working time entirely up to you.

Async Biased
As a company spanning many time zones we naturally tend towards async working arrangements and design our processes and working environment with this in mind.

Consensus Driven
We try to foster a genuinely collaborative and consensus driven approach to work rather than top-down direction and micro-management. 

Job Type: Full-time