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Game Developer jobs in Minneapolis, MN
Game developers build interactive experiences in engines like Unity and Unreal — writing gameplay systems, optimizing performance, and collaborating with artists and designers to ship playable worlds.
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$29–$81/hr
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Why Placon – You'll Love It HereA hands-on leadership role where your expertise drives innovationOpportunities to lead, mentor, and develop engineering talentCollaborative, cross-functional environment focused on custome…
$73k - $132k
discovering that just-right product, and we infuse everything we do with our passion for affordable, differentiated design. We concept, develop, and deliver the products that Target guests expect and love. Our Digital Pr…
Role: Sr. Full Stack Developer Location - Minneapolis, MN Job Description Years of experience needed 4- 6 year. Top must have skillsets: Full stack Application Development w/ AWS, ROSA, Java Spring, Angular JS Comfortabl…
Sr .Net Developer with Azure (AI & Finance Platform Engineering) Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid) Phone + Video Job description: Senior Microsoft Software Engineers with strong Azure and .NET backgrounds. AI experience is import…
ceremonies, including daily stand-ups and sprint planning Qualifications Required Qualifications: Strong professional experience developing backend applications using Kotlin Experience with Spring Boot Experience buildin…
$82.71 - $97.74 per hour
business stakeholders to deliver reliable, performant features while supporting the day-to-day health of production systems. Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot. Implement new featur…
$130k - $150k
expand the use of renewable energy, positively impacting the future of the planet. Job Responsibilities · Design & Development: Develop high-quality software design and performance architecture. Write clean, scalable cod…
$75.19 - $90.22 per hour
processes across warehouse and supply chain environments. This is an excellent opportunity for a software engineer who enjoys developing enterprise applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributin…
turbine customers worldwide. This role is responsible for prospecting new service business, quoting various services to customers, and developing sales proposals in coordination with the factories and partners delivering…
$112k - $180k
conceptualize character designs Implement textures and materials to enhance character realism Optimize character models for animation and game engines Participate in feedback sessions to improve character designs Researc…
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What game developers earn in Minneapolis
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $29–$43 | $61k–$90k |
| Mid level | $43–$62 | $90k–$128k |
| Senior | $59–$81 | $122k–$168k |
Adjusted for the Minneapolis market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Unity (C#) or Unreal (C++)Gameplay programming3D math (vectors, matrices)Performance profilingPhysics and animation systemsMultiplayer networking (a plus)Shaders and graphics basicsCollaboration with art and designIterating from playtest feedback
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Walk me through a gameplay system you built — movement, combat, inventory, anything.
Explain the architecture and how it survived design changes. Games iterate constantly, so flexible systems are the real skill being probed.
Your frame rate dropped below target. How do you find the cause?
Profile first — CPU versus GPU — then narrow to draw calls, scripts, physics, or garbage collection. Naming the actual profiler tools you use makes it credible.
Explain the difference between Update and FixedUpdate (or tick contexts in your engine).
Frame-dependent versus fixed-timestep logic, and why physics belongs in the fixed step. A quick example of a bug caused by mixing them up is a nice touch.
How do you handle a designer requesting a change that breaks your architecture?
Show that you serve the game: understand the intent, propose alternatives, and refactor when the design direction is real. Rigidity is a bigger flag than rework.
What would you consider when adding multiplayer to a single-player game?
Authority, state synchronization, latency compensation, and the honest answer that retrofitting networking is expensive. Scoping realism is the point.
Tell me about a game you shipped or finished — even a small one.
Finished matters more than ambitious. Talk about the last 20 percent: polish, bugs, cuts you made to actually release.
How do you use object pooling, and why?
Reusing objects to avoid allocation and garbage-collection spikes — bullets and effects are the classic case. Tie it to a frame-time problem you solved.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For game developers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Link playable work — shipped titles, itch.io projects, or a portfolio reel; in games, the work is the resume.
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Specify your engine and language depth (Unity/C#, Unreal/C++) and your specialty: gameplay, graphics, tools, or networking.
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Name your specific contributions on team titles — 'built the save system and enemy AI' beats a credit line.
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Include game jams and finished small projects; they prove you can complete things, which studios weight heavily.
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Show performance work with numbers, such as frame-rate targets hit on specific hardware.
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Where this role goes
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Game Developer
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