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Full Stack Developer (Contract)

We’re looking for a full-stack developer to design and implement new features in our multiplayer dungeon extraction game!

Ballard Games is a three-person game studio founded in Seattle in early 2025. We build PC and Console games for gamers who don’t have time. One of our core principles is to not be one of those game studios that over-hires and, when the game is done, lays off half the company. That’s why we are looking to hire people who like to wear many hats and are comfortable with multiple areas of ownership.

Our first game, Few Shall Return, is a PvPvE “coopetive” (competitive and cooperative simultaneously) dungeon-extraction game in the Diablo IV/Path of Exile style.

The opportunity is available worldwide. You can be located and work from anywhere in the world as long as you can find time for 2-3 meetings per week on Pacific time zone.

This is a paid opportunity in cash and equity in the company. It’s available immediately for up to 32 hours/week based on your availability, expertise, and expected compensation.

Required previous experience:

• You have developed games in Unity for at least 1 year
• You have developed backend services for games for at least 1 year

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement new game features in Unity and backend services

Bonus previous experience:

• Shipped games on PC/Console
• Worked on multiplayer games
• Built web applications
• Photon Fusion (or similar multiplayer engines)
• Azure (or similar clouds)
• Playfab (or similar live services)
• Go (the programming language, not the game, lol)

If you’re interested, please send us your resume over email at [email protected]. We’ll only consider applications directly from candidates. Hiring agencies or companies will be ignored.