Remote Freelance Senior Combat Designer (Unreal)

Jobgether; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote across Europe

Flexible working hours with core CET 4

Private medical insurance

25 days of annual leave + bank holiday

Sports membership reimbursement

Company events and team activities

Remote office setup support

Profit-sharing bonus

Generous referral scheme

Job summary

Jobgether is partnering with a project to hire a Senior Combat Designer (Freelance) based in the Netherlands for a fully remote, Europe-wide collaboration. You will shape combat systems, enemy behaviours, and RPG progression using Unreal Engine and Blueprint scripting, with hands-on prototyping and balancing.

You will work with programmers, artists, animators, VFX, and production teams to deliver polished encounters.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Game Design experience.
• Several years as Combat Designer or similar role.
• Deep Soulslike combat expertise and understanding.
• Experience on at least one shipped AAA title in a design capacity.
• Knowledge of gameplay mechanics, progression, and modern design principles.
• Hands-on familiarity with Unreal Engine and Blueprints.
• Ability to prototype, implement, balance, and iterate combat systems and enemy behaviour.
• Strong melee combat understanding: timing, hitboxes, and responsiveness.
• Excellent communication across disciplines.
• Strong organizational skills for fast-paced development.
• Creative, open-minded problem-solving with defendable ideas.
• Ability to start immediately and work in a distributed European team.
• Right to work in the country of residence.

Responsibilities

• Own core combat design and implementation aspects.
• Develop and evolve combat systems and enemy archetypes.
• Balance and ship diverse enemies and bosses.
• Fine-tune combat details: animation timing, hitboxes, frame data.
• Structure enemy behaviours with RPG progression and player builds.
• Implement behaviours using Unreal Engine features (Behaviour Trees, Anim Graphs, Blueprints).
• Provide technical requirements to Gameplay Programmers.
• Create basic combat level setups communicating design intent.
• Identify and resolve gameplay bugs to maintain quality.
• Collaborate with Character Art, Animation, VFX, Audio, and Level Design.
• Produce clear documentation covering mechanics and systems.
• Use usability testing to assess quality and identify improvements.
• Provide constructive feedback to strengthen the project.

Skills

Combat design

Unreal Engine

Gameplay balancing

Prototyping

Technical collaboration

Communication

Tools

Unreal Engine blueprints

Job description

Jobgether is partnering with a project to hire a Senior Combat Designer (Freelance) based in the Netherlands for a fully remote, Europe-wide collaboration. You will shape combat systems, enemy behaviours, and RPG progression using Unreal Engine and Blueprint scripting, with hands-on prototyping and balancing.

You will work with programmers, artists, animators, VFX, and production teams to deliver polished encounters.