Tools Engineering Lead

JR United Kingdom; Portsmouth; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK studio specializing in interactive storytelling is looking for a Tools Engineering Lead to join their team in Portsmouth. The successful candidate will oversee the development of core tools and systems to enhance creative storytelling experiences across multiple platforms. This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment, pioneering innovative narrative formats that combine cutting-edge technology and storytelling.

Qualifications

• Experience working on tools driven games at scale in a lead capacity.
• Familiarity with cloud gaming platforms or cross-platform deployment frameworks.
• Strong decision-making ability and proactive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on development of core engine and tools for creative teams.
• Support multi-platform development for consoles, mobile, and PC.
• Define technical requirements and oversee external contractors.

Skills

Unity 3D

C#

Cross-Platform Development

Game Tools

Mobile Development

Education

3+ years of experience in a lead capacity

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Scriptic

Location:

portsmouth, hampshire, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

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Job Description:

Tools Engineering Lead

Full-Time, Permanent | Remote (UK-based)

We are looking for an Engineer to help scale our venture-backed interactive storytelling studio - Scriptic (BAFTA-nominated and available on Netflix). We’re defining a new medium of screen-native, streaming-first playable dramas, delivering prestige branching narratives to a mass-market audience.

Our mission: to become the HBO of playable drama by 2030 - building original, screen-native IP that lives across platforms like Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, and emerging cloud services.

Our format blends imagery, audio, text, and video into seamless, emotionally-driven interactive experiences - built for TV, laptop, mobile, and ultimately, cloud distribution. In the short term, we're scaling to Steam and console to build the foundations for that future.

Since inception, we’ve been pioneers in blending storytelling with technology, using GenAI tools like GPT-4, MidJourney, and ElevenLabs to elevate narrative while staying lean and creatively agile.

This is an opportunity to join a bold, early-stage studio rewriting what interactive storytelling can be - and play a key role in its next phase of growth.

Track Record

• ? Scriptic: Crime Stories is one of the top-performing titles in the history of Netflix Games
• ? Over 100M views on TikTok, driven by viral, audience-first storytelling
• ? BAFTA-nominated for innovation in interactive storytelling
• ? Backed by Amazon, Sony, and other top-tier investors
• ? Recognised by a16z as one of the few studios shaping the future of interactive storytelling in the AI era

Overview

Scriptic is pioneering interactive narrative experiences, building on our successful mobile IP and expanding onto cloud and desktop platforms. We're looking for a Cross-platform Tooling Lead with a strategic mindset to help us evolve our technology for multi-platform deployment, shaping the future of our studio’s narrative format.

This is a high-impact role for a developer with a passion for innovation and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving. You will be instrumental in upgrading our core tools and systems to meet the demands of desktop and cloud platforms, allowing our creative team to design and publish our interactive dramas to a wide range of devices. In addition, you’ll define and oversee outsourcing efforts, ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions.

Core Responsibilities

• Hands-on development of our core engine and tools to enable our creative team to develop our stories.
• Supporting multi-platform development for consoles, mobile and PC.
• Define technical requirements and documentation for third-party development.
• Evaluate, manage, and validate external contractors and outsourcing partners.
• Identify technical opportunities to improve performance, usability, or scalability.
• Collaborate closely with design and narrative teams to align tech solutions with creative goals.
• Manage small internal technology team
• Experience working on a tools driven game at scale in a Lead capacity or higher.
• A minimum of 3+ years of recent experience with Unity 3D.
• Experience with deploying across consoles and PC/Steam.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a proactive approach to exploring new tech opportunities.
• Mindset of providing technology in service of the creative teams.
• Strong decision-making ability: knowing when to prioritise speed vs. robustness.
• Ability to work autonomously, in a self-motivated manner, whilst working remotely.
• Great communication skills and the ability to evangelise contemporary testing practices to others

Bonus

• Experience in developing data-driven UIs with data binding (e.g. WPF, Angular, React).
• Experience publishing to mobile platforms.
• Implementing a scripting language into a game engine.
• Prior experience coordinating with external studios or technical outsourcing teams.
• Familiarity with cloud gaming platforms or cross-platform deployment frameworks.
• Exposure to narrative design tools or story-driven development pipelines.
• Passion for storytelling or narrative games
• Interest in AI tooling and technology.

Unity 3D, Game Tools, Lead, C#, Cross-Platform Development, Console, PC, Mobile, Engineering