Job Details
Software Engineer
2025-08-21 Aspyr Media Austin,TXAspyr Media, Inc. is an independent, full-service developer and publisher for the industry's leading games. Over the last 25 years, Aspyr has helped nearly 200 games reach their next level across all platforms and beyond expectations.
Founded in 1996, Aspyr Media, Inc. got its start in Austin, TX by bringing the biggest PC gaming franchises such as Call of Duty, Sid Meier's Civilization and Star Wars to Mac. Today, Aspyr is a video game publishing and development partner focused on maximizing the potential of games. We find the world's best games and connect them to new audiences, on all platforms.
Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Manager of Engineering, the Software Engineer will take on a key development role within our engineering team, building upon the technical foundation of prior experience to deliver high-impact systems and solutions. As a core contributor, the Software Engineer will be responsible for owning features across the game development pipeline — from implementation and optimization to documentation and cross-team collaboration.
This role is ideal for someone with strong C++ skills who is ready to take the next step beyond an associate-level role, with increasing independence, technical leadership, and ownership over their contributions to the team.
Essential Functions:
- Develop and maintain scalable, efficient, and high-quality C++ code across key areas including gameplay systems, UI, audio, graphics, and tools.
- Take ownership of specific features or systems and see them through the full development lifecycle (design, implementation, testing, optimization, documentation).
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues including concurrency, memory usage, and platform-specific bugs.
- Proactively contribute to code reviews and team discussions to promote code quality and consistency.
- Build tools and workflows to support both engineering and non-engineering teams.
- Collaborate with designers, artists, producers, and QA to ensure technical implementation aligns with creative vision and player experience.
- Write and maintain clear, thorough technical documentation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science, Math, or related discipline(s), or equivalent industry experience.
- 5+ years software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in C++, with solid understanding of object-oriented programming and software design principles.
- Experience with threading, synchronization, memory and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with scripting languages such as Blueprint, Lua, C#, or Python.
- Comfortable working across platforms and debugging complex technical issues.
- Effective communicator with strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative spirit.