Lead Tooling Engineer

Langham Recruitment; London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Lead Tooling Engineer where you'll be at the forefront of creating powerful tools for narrative-driven games. This role offers autonomy in a fully remote setting, allowing for significant career growth and leadership opportunities within a creative studio. Candidates should have experience in Unity 3D and a passion for empowering creative teams.

Benefits

Employee equity plan

Company pension

Stock options

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Unity 3D experience.
• Proven experience leading development of game tools.
• Experience with multi-platform deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of scalable internal tools.
• Manage and mentor a small team of engineers.
• Oversee outsourcing efforts to extend tooling capacity.

Skills

Unity 3D

Leadership

Communication

Tooling Development

Creative Problem Solving

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Lead Tooling Engineer | Games Development | £80k | Fully Remote

Are you passionate about building powerful, intuitive tools that empower creative teams? Do you love solving complex technical challenges and want to shape the future of interactive storytelling?

Our client is creating immersive narrative experiences across mobile, console, PC, and the cloud—and we’re looking for a Lead Tooling Engineer to take their internal systems to the next level. You’ll lead the development of core tools that enable their storytellers to craft emotionally rich, branching dramas and deploy them seamlessly across platforms.

This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you’ll lead a small team of two engineers, collaborate closely with narrative and design teams, and help define the technical direction of the studio’s tooling pipeline. There’s also significant room for growth—as theor studio scales, you’ll have the opportunity to take on broader leadership responsibilities and shape long-term strategy.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead the design and development of intuitive, scalable internal tools for story creation and publishing
• Manage and mentor a small team of two engineers, setting technical direction and supporting their growth
• Build multi-platform tooling workflows that support deployment to mobile, PC, console, and cloud
• Define technical documentation and requirements for both internal use and third-party developers
• Oversee and evaluate outsourcing efforts to extend tooling capacity when needed
• Continuously improve the performance, usability, and scalability of internal systems
• Partner with creative teams to ensure tools align with design and storytelling goals
• Contribute to the studio’s long-term technology roadmap with room to grow into senior leadership

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience leading the development of game or creative tools at scale
• 3+ years of hands-on Unity 3D experience
• Experience with tooling for multi-platform deployment (PC, console, mobile)
• Strong leadership and communication skills; able to guide a small, agile team
• A pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset focused on enabling creativity
• Comfortable working remotely with a high degree of autonomy
• Keen interest in building scalable tools that empower creative teams

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with data-driven UI frameworks (e.g. WPF, Angular, React)
• Background in mobile publishing and tooling for app deployment
• Familiarity with scripting language integration (e.g. Lua, Ink)
• Prior experience coordinating with external development or outsourcing partners
• Understanding of cloud gaming platforms or cross-platform deployment solutions
• Exposure to narrative design tools or interactive story pipelines
• Passion for storytelling and/or narrative-driven games
• Interest in AI-assisted development tools and pipelines

Salary and Benefits:

• Salary up to £80k
• Employee equity plan
• Company pension
• Stock options
• Chance to progress career

Unity 3D | C# | Game Tools | Internal Tooling | Multi-Platform | Console | PC | Mobile | Remote | Engineering Leadership

If you’re ready to build tools that power the next generation of interactive narratives—and grow your leadership career in a creatively ambitious studio—then we want to hear from you.

Apply now and help shape the future of story-first game development.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Computer Games

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