A discipline is missing.
You have gameplay programmers but nobody who has done netcode, a build pipeline or a performance pass before.
The missing specialist, part-time or full-time
Hire Unreal Engine developers
One senior UE5 developer, or a small team, working inside your project with your tools and reporting to your leads. You meet the developer before the contract is signed.
Role brief
- Engine
- UE 5.4, C++ and Blueprints
- Team
- Joins six gameplay programmers, reports to the gameplay lead
- Work
- Ability set and AI hooks for two enemy types
- Hours
- Three days a week for three months, reviewed monthly
- Start
- First week of November
- Tools
- Perforce, Jira, Slack, Swarm for code review
Who you can hire
Each discipline has one owner on our team. If you need two people in the same discipline, ask, and we will tell you whether we can staff it.
Gameplay programming: David
UE5 C++ and Blueprints: abilities, combat, movement and the systems that designers use every day.
Multiplayer engineering: Yura
Replication, prediction, dedicated servers and online services with EOS or Steamworks.
Backend and web: Frank
Game backends and APIs in JavaScript, plus launchers, player portals, dashboards and websites.
Build and tools engineering: Andrew
BuildGraph and Horde pipelines, editor utilities and Python scripts that save the whole team time.
Technical art: George
Materials, Niagara, lighting and the profiling work that keeps the frame budget intact.
Game AI programming: Vish
StateTree, Behavior Trees and EQS for NPCs, plus LLM features when the design calls for them.
QA and test automation: Jordan
Test plans, automated Gauntlet and functional tests, and bug reports your programmers can act on.
In practice
What the first two weeks look like
Before the contract is signed, you talk to the developer who would join. If they need to see project details, we sign your NDA first. The call is technical: they look at what you need built, ask about your engine version, branching and review process, and tell you where they expect the work to be hard.
Once the contract is in place, your lead sets up accounts in your repository, tracker and chat. The first task is usually small and real, such as a bug in the system they will own, so they learn your codebase through your own review process.
From the second week they work like anyone else on your team: standups, sprint planning and code review. Each month we check in with your lead about hours, output and fit, and change the arrangement if it no longer suits you.
When studios hire through us
A milestone is close and the team is full.
The scope and the date are fixed, and everyone is already at capacity.
A developer who works inside your codebase and process
A permanent hire would take months.
The work needs to start this sprint, and the role may not be needed in a year.
Reviewed monthly, so it ends when the work does
Developers most often embedded
See the whole team.
FOUNDER
David
Founder & Lead DeveloperGameplay and engine programming. Takes embedded work part-time alongside leading our audits and architecture reviews.
Yura
Multiplayer & Online EngineerMultiplayer, dedicated servers and online services.
Andrew
Build & Tools EngineerBuild pipelines, editor tools and source control.
Questions about hiring
How quickly can a developer start?
It depends on who you need and when. Our first reply names the person and the earliest date they can start.
Can we change the hours later?
Part-time work can grow to full-time, and one developer can become a small strike team when we have the capacity. We agree changes a month ahead where we can.
What happens if our developer is ill or away?
We tell you the same day. Where another team member has the right skills, they cover; otherwise we pause the hours until the developer is back.
How do you keep our source code secure?
We only use the accounts and permissions you give us, with two-factor authentication everywhere, and follow your security policy if you have one. Access is removed when the engagement ends.
Who owns the code they write?
You do, once it is paid for. Tools we owned before the project stay ours, and you get a perpetual licence to use them in your game.
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Tell us about the project
Send us the engine version, where the project is and the work you need done. We reply within two business days with who we would put on it, or tell you it is not a fit.
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