Careers

Three roles open.

We hire slowly and we hire rarely. If one of these is yours, we would rather hear from you late and properly than early and generically.

How we work

Twenty-three people, one office in Halifax and a handful of us remote across Canada. We do not crunch; when a date is wrong we move the date, which is most of what our Head of Production is for.

Since January 2026 we have been running a four-day week as a trial, Monday to Thursday, at full pay. We will say publicly whether it worked before we decide to keep it.

Every role below is permanent and salaried, with health coverage from day one and a relocation budget if you want the office. To apply, email a short note and whatever you would rather show than describe to careers@driftwoodsignal.com. No cover-letter theatre required.

Open roles

Gameplay Engineer (Player Systems)

Halifax, NS — hybrid

Working on the parts of Undercroft Tactics the player touches every second: movement, weapon handling, inventory weight, and the interaction layer that ties them together.

Responsibilities

Own and extend player movement and weapon-handling code in Unreal Engine 5, in C++ with light Blueprint glue.
Implement inventory, encumbrance and looting behaviour against a networked authoritative server.
Work directly with the systems designer to prototype, tune and throw away mechanics quickly.
Diagnose client-side prediction and reconciliation problems reported from live raids.
Keep frame cost honest — profile your own work before it reaches the build.

Requirements

Three or more years writing gameplay C++ in Unreal Engine, ideally on a shipped multiplayer title.
A working understanding of replication, authority and client prediction, not just the API surface.
Comfort profiling with Unreal Insights or an equivalent and acting on what you find.
Willingness to have your prototype cut and to be the one who cuts someone else’s.

Apply to careers@driftwoodsignal.com

Community Director

Halifax, NS — hybrid

Our current Community Director is moving to a broader publishing role, and we are hiring her replacement. This is the studio’s public voice: wipe announcements, patch notes, the bad threads and the good ones.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day communication across the forums, the Steam pages and our own channels.
Write and schedule patch notes, wipe announcements and downtime notices with the production team.
Run the ban-appeal queue with the anti-abuse engineers, and hold the line on what we will and will not discuss publicly.
Summarise player sentiment for the design team weekly, including the parts they do not want to hear.
Represent the studio in tournaments and community events run by our competitive scene.

Requirements

Three or more years in community or player-support work on a live PC game.
Genuinely good written English under pressure, and the judgement to know when not to post.
Experience with a competitive or hardcore player base and its moderation problems.

Apply to careers@driftwoodsignal.com

Server Engineer — Persistence & Anti-Abuse

Remote (Canada / Atlantic to Pacific)

Backend work on the services behind Undercroft Tactics: the persistence layer that owns your stash between raids, and the detection and enforcement tooling that keeps the match honest.

Responsibilities

Maintain and extend the account, inventory and stash persistence services (Go, PostgreSQL).
Build and tune server-side abuse detection: item duplication, stash laundering, boosting and account trading.
Work with our third-party anti-cheat integration on enforcement flows, ban linkage and appeal review tooling.
Own the enforcement audit trail so every action taken on an account can be explained afterwards.
Carry a light on-call rotation for the live services, shared across four engineers.

Requirements

Four or more years building backend services in production, with real relational database experience.
Some exposure to fraud, abuse or trust-and-safety detection work in any domain.
Sound judgement about false positives — you understand that a wrong ban costs more than a missed one.
Legally able to work in Canada and within Atlantic to Pacific time zones.

Apply to careers@driftwoodsignal.com