Job Posting – Senior Programmer
Date posted: July 2026 Pay: £75,000.00 – £95,000.00 per year Job description: Senior Programmer Status: Accepting applications – awaiting seed funding close before formal offers Company: the company Limited Location: United Kingdom Work arrangement: On-site, full-time Salary: Competitive (based on experience) Start date: Month 1 of seed funding
Benefits:
- On-site parking
- company pension
- sick pay
- team lunch and snack days
- travel season ticket loan
About the Role
You will join the core engineering team building a large-scale real-time strategy game. As a senior programmer, you will own major systems, mentor junior team members, and help shape the architecture of a custom engine built for stability, consistency and performance under heavy load.
You will work across gameplay systems, networking, tools and engine infrastructure. This is a hands-on role for someone who can design, implement and ship complex systems from start to finish.
This is not:
- Front-end web development or business applications
- Blueprint-only scripting without engine-level understanding
- Lightweight mobile or hyper-casual game development
This is:
- Hardcore systems programming for a large-scale PC game
- Ownership of major engine or gameplay systems
- Performance-critical code running under heavy load
- Simulation, networking, rendering integration and tools
- Problem-solving at the intersection of mathematics, memory layout and parallel execution
Quality benchmark:
You should have shipped multiple titles at recognised studios and be comfortable leading the design of complex C# or C++ systems. We are looking for engineers who think in terms of throughput, correctness and long-term maintainability.
Relevant reference titles:
Supreme Commander, Sins of a Solar Empire, StarCraft, Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program – games where scale, persistence and simulation consistency matter.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and own major gameplay, simulation and engine systems
- Profile and optimise CPU, memory and network performance across the codebase
- Lead architecture decisions for simulation, networking and tools
- Mentor and review code from junior and mid-level programmers
- Build internal tools for design, content and QA workflows
- Contribute to multiplayer netcode and server infrastructure
- Establish coding standards, documentation and code review practices
- Solve hard problems involving large datasets, concurrency and numerical precision
Requirements
Essential:
- 7+ years professional programming experience in the games industry
- Multiple shipped titles from recognised game studios
- Expert knowledge of C#; strong C++ experience is a significant plus
- Deep understanding of game engine architecture
- Extensive experience with performance profiling and optimisation
- Strong debugging skills in complex, multi-system codebases
- Solid understanding of memory management, data-oriented design and threading
- Experience mentoring other programmers and leading technical decisions
- UK-based or willing to relocate
Desirable:
- Experience with Unity or Unreal Engine
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field
- Strong mathematical background, especially linear algebra, geometry and numerical methods
- Experience with consistent simulation, lockstep multiplayer or replay systems
- Graphics programming, rendering pipelines or shader experience
- Networking and multiplayer server experience
- Build systems, CI/CD and tooling experience
- Version control expertise (Git or Perforce)
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