Jahnel Group

UI Engineer

Jahnel Group  •  Remote  •  22 hours ago
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Job Description

Jahnel Group’s mission is to provide the absolute best environment for software creators to pursue their passion by connecting them with great clients doing meaningful work. We get to build some of the most complex and compelling applications for our clients located across the country.

We’re a fast-growing INC 5000 recognized company, yet we still work as a very close-knit team (100+ employees). We’re growing like crazy, and if you’re looking for the next place to call home, hit us up for a beer or coffee.

Who We're Looking For

We’re looking for a UI Engineer to help build and support event-driven user interfaces for a game client environment. This role blends UI development, game client systems, and close collaboration with designers, artists, and gameplay engineers to deliver intuitive and responsive user experiences.

You’ll work across both UI scripting and backend client systems, ensuring that data flows cleanly into front-end interfaces while maintaining performance and scalability in a real-time environment.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Develop event-driven UIs using Lua based on design specs and wireframes
  • Build and maintain game client systems in C++ to support UI functionality
  • Collaborate closely with UI designers and artists to improve user experience
  • Provide feedback on UI/UX design feasibility and implementation approach
  • Work with producers and systems designers to align engineering and product needs
  • Maintain clean, maintainable, and performant UI-related code
  • Support shared codebase development in a collaborative engineering environment

Some Must-Haves:

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Strong proficiency in C++
  • Experience with scripting languages such as Lua
  • Strong understanding of software architecture and system design
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable, and portable code
  • Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset
  • Experience working in shared, multi-engineer codebases

Nice to Have:

  • Experience developing MMO addons or game UI systems
  • Familiarity with networked game client/server architecture
  • Experience designing or implementing UI systems (professionally or independently)

Where We're Looking For It:


Latin America
Open to 100% Fully Remote

Other Information

The work hours will be approximately 9:00 am to 5:00 pm EST, depending on workload, with the occasional late night when a tight deadline calls for it. We work for security-conscious clients, thus background checks will be required.

Position available immediately.

Jahnel Group

About Jahnel Group

No matter the complexity of the application, we have the skills and the tools to build it.

Jahnel Group brings well over a decade of web development experience with a great eye for design and an impressive set of technical skills. We work hard to stay on the cutting edge of our industry and are absolutely obsessed with making our customers happy. We've seen exponential growth in the past few years. So much so that we have appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for three consecutive years!

We specialize in the design and development of web-based applications, websites, mobile applications and anything digital with extensive experience in the full software development life-cycle. This includes gathering requirements, project management, wire framing, prototyping, development, and quality assurance.

We're proud to be a culture-first company. Our dedication to our employees is why we've appeared on the Times Union Top Workplaces and Albany Business Review Best Places to Work for three consecutive years.

If you have a complex project you'd like to discuss, please call us at 518-356-0039 or email general@jahnelgroup.com, we'd love to hear from you!

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Schenectady, New York
Year Founded
Unknown
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