Senior Gameplay Engineer - Remote, Lead Features & Systems

Uplift Games; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Uplift Games is seeking a senior gameplay engineer to lead complex development for a high-traffic online game. The role blends technical leadership with hands-on feature work, establishing practices, reducing debt, and guiding the overall gameplay quality across products.

You will build gameplay and UI features in Lua/Luau, lead projects from concept to deployment, and design secure, scalable server-authoritative systems for responsive controls and polished player experiences.

Qualifications

• Strong Lua/Luau engineering skills.
• Ability to lead complex projects and guide engineering standards.
• Sound judgment around system security, validation, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build gameplay, UI, visual effects, and content features in Lua/Luau.
• Lead features from concept through implementation, testing, polish, and deployment.
• Define engineering best practices and reduce technical debt.
• Design server-authoritative systems with validation to resist client-side exploitation.
• Diagnose and optimize systems across thousands of concurrent servers.
• Set a high bar for responsive controls, feedback, and UX.

Skills

Lua/Luau

Technical leadership

Security/reliability

Debugging at scale

Gameplay engineering

Job description

Uplift Games is seeking a senior gameplay engineer to lead complex development for a high-traffic online game. The role blends technical leadership with hands-on feature work, establishing practices, reducing debt, and guiding the overall gameplay quality across products.

You will build gameplay and UI features in Lua/Luau, lead projects from concept to deployment, and design secure, scalable server-authoritative systems for responsive controls and polished player experiences.