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Game Developer jobs in Philadelphia, PA
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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$31–$86/hr
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Job Description Job Description Front End Developer – great growth opportunity Founded in 2001, IntuitSolutions is a leading technology company that offers its employees a full suite of company sponsored benefits, a gene…
drive innovation at our fastest-growing entry point into our services, our mobile applications. You will play a strategic role in developing a product that is revolutionizing the delivery of language services and omnicha…
technical support for all product platforms to customers as well as field sales and customer service. Support existing activities, develop new technical solutions, maintain/establish technical contacts, provide technical…
$75k - $82.4k
efficient and effective government across every city department, board, commission and agency. Job Description You will: Develop and maintain high-quality iOS applications using React Native and native iOS technologies B…
notification systems for JLV backend services. • Execute backup, restore, outage recovery, and incident response procedures. • Develop operational runbooks and support production readiness activities. • Establish perform…
responsibilities of this role include advanced web application development and collaborating closely with a team of highly skilled developers, technical leads and product owners in a fast paced Agile environment. You wil…
Job Details: Sr. .Net Developer I'm seeking a Sr..Net Developer for a remote position with a stable and growing company. Interested candidates with the following skill set are encouraged to apply. ~5+ years of Software d…
$70 per hour
Job Description Job Description .Net Developer (.Net, C Sharp, MVC) Job at a Glance Title: .Net Developer (.Net, C Sharp, MVC) Location: Philadelphia, PA Contract: W2 only, 6-month contract with potential for extension o…
$135k - $185k
Job Description Job Description Description: We're a robotics company building reliable, high-performance systems that operate in the real world. Our work spans perception, control, and systems software, and we value cle…
Senior Level .NET Developer Solvepoint is looking to add to its team of extraordinary Senior Level .NET Developers qualified individuals who are excited about being challenged and compensated according to their talent. P…
Job Description Job Description Overview CTG is seeking to fill a Backend Developer - SQL, .NET, Python opening for our client in Philadelphia, PA. Location: Philadelphia, PA Duration: 12 months Overview: The Backend Dev…
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What game developers earn in Philadelphia
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $31–$46 | $65k–$95k |
| Mid level | $46–$65 | $95k–$135k |
| Senior | $62–$86 | $130k–$178k |
Adjusted for the Philadelphia 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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