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Game Developer jobs in Portland, OR
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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$32–$88/hr
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Salary: $141,700 - 183,370 per year Requirements: Minimum five (5) years of experience with projects involving solution implementation utilizing development life cycles (e.g., SDLC) At least two (2) years in a technical…
Notes: ~ This position is onsite WHQ for the hybrid work schedule We are looking for an experienced full stack Web Developer who can develop responsive web experiences and performant, reliable services that serve athlete…
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tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players. Are you game? Sr. Principal Engineer CONSUMER PRODUCT AND INNOVATION , PHK... ..., half of your time will be spent leading by example to design, develop, operate, an…
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tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players. Are you game? WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH As part of the North America, Local... ...WE ARE LOOKING FOR We are seeking a Lead Footwear Product Developer to play a critical r…
Work at entp! Frontend Developer ENTP is looking to add a Frontend Developer The Job Lighthouse is getting a major facelift and we're 90% of the way there, but we need a designer/frontend developer to round out the devel…
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plus stock options and benefits Onsite role Darwin Space are partnered with an exciting hybrid propulsion company who are developing a new generation of environmentally conscious suborbital and orbital launch systems. Th…
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What game developers earn in Portland
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $32–$47 | $66k–$97k |
| Mid level | $47–$66 | $97k–$138k |
| Senior | $63–$88 | $132k–$182k |
Adjusted for the Portland 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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Game Developer
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Lead Programmer
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