Senior Game Developer / Lead Game Engineer

Aspire Technology; India; Remote; INR 1,000,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

OMRE Virtual World seeks a Senior Game Developer/Lead to architect, develop, optimize, and scale a persistent, multi-user virtual world for web, mobile, and desktop.

You will lead engine architecture, open-world systems, and multiplayer networking, while collaborating with designers, backend engineers, and AI teams to deliver a scalable, immersive experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional game development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one production game engine (Godot, Unity, or Unreal).
• Strong understanding of Godot 4 architecture and GDScript, or ability to transition from another engine.
• Advanced C++ programming knowledge.
• Experience with 2D/3D rendering, animation, physics, and collision systems.
• Experience developing and optimizing multiplayer games.
• Strong understanding of WebSockets, WebRTC, client-server architecture, and real-time synchronization.
• Experience with 3D mathematics, vectors, matrices, quaternions, and transforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead Game Engine & Core Architecture development using Godot 4.
• Build large, interconnected open worlds with procedural generation and streaming.
• Design and implement real-time multiplayer systems and server interactions.
• Develop avatar/character, animation systems, and visual deployments.
• Create realistic environments, weather, lighting, and effects.
• Optimize performance, loading times, and cross-platform pipelines.
• Create internal tools and workflows with AI integration and asset pipelines.
• Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and documentation.

Skills

7+ years experience

Godot 4 / Unity / Unreal

C++ programming

WebSockets & WebRTC

Real-time multiplayer

3D math (vectors, matrices, quaternio​

GDScript / Godot 4 architecture

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Blender integration

Job description

OMRE Virtual World is an ambitious project to build a persistent, shared digital civilization where millions of people can live, communicate, work, own properties, operate businesses, explore cities, and participate in a functioning virtual society.

Unlike traditional games, OMRE Virtual World will be a continuously evolving environment with real-time multiplayer interactions, persistent identities, a virtual economy, transportation, realistic cities, dynamic weather, and AI-powered systems.

Our vision is to create an accessible virtual world that operates across web browsers, mobile devices, and desktop computers.

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Game Developer / Lead Game Engineer who can help architect, develop, optimize, and scale this next-generation virtual world.

Key Responsibilities

1. Game Engine & Core Architecture

• Lead development using Godot 4.
• Design modular game architecture for a persistent virtual world.
• Develop reusable systems for world management, rendering, physics, movement, interactions, and animation.
• Build cross-platform systems supporting browsers, Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Evaluate and integrate appropriate open-source technologies.
• Create scalable foundations for future 3D expansion.

2. Open-World Development

• Develop large, interconnected virtual cities and environments.
• Implement terrain systems, buildings, interiors, roads, vegetation, and interactive objects.
• Build procedural generation tools and automated environment pipelines.
• Implement streaming, chunk loading, level of detail, and asset management.
• Develop day/night cycles, weather effects, and environmental animations.
• Optimize worlds for low-end devices and browsers.

3. Multiplayer & Networking

• Implement real-time multiplayer systems.
• Design client-side multiplayer synchronization.
• Implement entity interpolation, prediction, reconciliation, and lag compensation.
• Work with backend engineers on authoritative server architecture.
• Support dynamic world instances, spatial partitioning, and interest management.
• Develop multiplayer features for avatars, properties, objects, vehicles, and interactions.
• Engineer reliable reconnection and state recovery.

4. Avatar, Character & Animation Systems

• Develop customizable 2D, 2.5D, and 3D avatar systems.
• Implement character controllers, skeletal animation, inverse kinematics, and animation blending.
• Build facial expressions, gestures, emotes, and contextual interactions.
• Integrate avatar customization, clothing, accessories, and appearance systems.
• Support avatar optimization for multiple device classes.

5. Realistic Environment & Simulation

• Implement lighting, shadows, weather, environmental effects, and physical interactions.
• Develop vehicle movement, traffic simulations, and pedestrian navigation.
• Implement NPC behavior, pathfinding, and navigation systems.
• Create interactive homes, offices, shops, cafs, and public environments.
• Integrate procedural and AI-assisted world creation.

6. Performance & Optimization

• Optimize CPU, GPU, memory, draw calls, shaders, and rendering pipelines.
• Develop graphics quality settings for low-end mobile devices and high-performance computers.
• Implement texture compression, asset streaming, batching, and rendering optimization.
• Profile and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Improve initial loading speed and runtime stability.

7. Tools & AI Integration

• Develop internal tools for world creation and asset placement.
• Integrate Blender and other 3D content creation pipelines.
• Build reusable tools for designers and artists.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to create natural-language-driven world-building workflows.
• Implement AI-generated asset integration and automated validation.

8. Technical Leadership

• Define coding standards and architectural guidelines.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Collaborate with 3D artists, UI/UX designers, backend engineers, DevOps engineers, and AI teams.
• Own technical design documentation and development milestones.
• Drive architecture decisions while balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• 7+ years of professional game development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one production game engine, preferably Godot, Unity, or Unreal Engine.
• Strong understanding of Godot 4 architecture and GDScript, or demonstrated ability to transition from another engine.
• Advanced C++ programming knowledge.
• Experience with 2D and 3D rendering, animation, physics, and collision systems.
• Experience developing and optimizing multiplayer games.
• Strong understanding of WebSockets, WebRTC, client-server architecture, and real-time synchronization.
• Experience with 3D mathematics, vectors, matrices, quaternions, and transforms.
• Knowledge of shader programming, GPU performance, and rendering optimization.
• Experience with asset pipelines, Blender integration, and 3D model formats.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, debugging, and performance profiling.
• Understanding of browser and mobile platform limitations.

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience developing MMORPGs, open-world games, sandbox games, or virtual-world platforms.
• Experience with large multiplayer environments and distributed world architectures.
• Knowledge of Vulkan, OpenGL, WebGL, WebGPU, and WebAssembly.
• Experience with procedural city generation.
• Knowledge of ECS architecture, spatial databases, and world partitioning.
• Experience with navigation meshes, NPC AI, crowd simulation, and traffic systems.
• Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, Node.js, and native Android/iOS development.
• Experience with asset streaming, CDN infrastructure, and cloud deployment.
• Understanding of AI-assisted development and generative 3D workflows.
• Experience building internal game editors or creator tools.