Senior Engine Programmer: Core Engine & Tools Lead

Cast Iron Games; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible hours

Professional development support

No crunch culture

Early leave on project milestones

Job summary

Cast Iron Games, based at Tileyard North, seeks a Senior Engine Programmer to own core engine systems, improve performance, and ship high-quality games without crunch. You will work across memory, threading, IO, and asset management, collaborating with engineering, design and production to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes mentoring less experienced developers, influencing long-term architecture decisions, tooling improvements, and maintaining high engineering standards in a calm,

Qualifications

• Strong C++ experience within large game codebases.
• Deep understanding of memory management and multithreading.
• Experience profiling and debugging complex systems.
• Familiarity with console/PC platform requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain core engine systems.
• Improve engine performance, memory usage, scalability, and stability.
• Develop tools and workflows that improve team productivity.
• Collaborate across engineering, design, art and production.

Skills

C++

Memory management

Multithreading

Performance optimisation

Profiling & debugging

Console and PC platforms

Perforce

Jira

Tools

Perforce

Jira

Job description

Cast Iron Games, based at Tileyard North, seeks a Senior Engine Programmer to own core engine systems, improve performance, and ship high-quality games without crunch. You will work across memory, threading, IO, and asset management, collaborating with engineering, design and production to deliver scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes mentoring less experienced developers, influencing long-term architecture decisions, tooling improvements, and maintaining high engineering standards in a calm,