LIVESYNC
Founding Full Stack Games Engineer
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About LIVESYNC
LIVESYNC is building the technology that makes live events playable inside games. We take live motion and positional data from real-world sporting events, process it in real time and synchronise it with gaming environments so players can experience the live moment as it happens.
We are starting with sport and Roblox, with the ambition to expand across different entertainment industries and gaming platforms. We are looking for a Founding Games Engineer to become one of our first core technical hires.
The role
You will lead the game-side development of LIVESYNC, initially likely within Roblox. You will take real-time data from our external processing architecture and turn it into responsive, synchronised characters and experiences inside the game. This is a hands-on founding role with real ownership. You’ll help shape the technical direction of the product as well as build it.
As LIVESYNC grows, we expect the role to expand into broader gameplay systems, new platform integrations and technical leadership.
What you'll work on
- Build and own LIVESYNC's Roblox integration
- Develop the systems that turn live motion and positional data into gameplay
- Build character animation, movement and synchronisation systems
- Develop robust client-server architecture for live experiences
- Optimise performance across players, characters and live data
- Work closely with our real-time systems engineer to define the interface between LIVESYNC and the game
- Help shape future integration SOPs across Roblox games and other gaming platforms
- Contribute to technical decisions, documentation and future engineering hires
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What we're looking for
You are an experienced games engineer who understands both gameplay and the systems underneath it. More importantly, you genuinely love games and care about the experience layer. You are interested in how technology translates into something that feels responsive, intuitive and fun for the player.
You should have strong experience with:
- Roblox Studio and Luau
- Multiplayer and client-server game architecture
- Character, movement or animation systems
- Performance optimisation
- Integrating external systems or data into games
Experience with live data, procedural animation, motion capture, sports games or other game engines would be particularly useful. We care more about the problems you have solved and your ability to learn than whether your previous technology stack exactly matches ours. LIVESYNC is an early-stage startup, and we want someone who wants to grow with it.
You should enjoy difficult technical problems, be comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and be willing to challenge our assumptions when there is a better solution. You should also be comfortable working directly with founders, external technology partners and other engineers.
We want someone who is excited by the opportunity to help build not only the product, but the engineering culture and team around it. Over time, this role has the potential to grow from Roblox engineering into broader games platform development and technical leadership.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Game Development, or equivalent practical experience.
- Solid understanding of multiplayer and client-server game architecture.
- Experience building character animation, movement, and synchronisation systems.
- Strong performance optimisation skills for real-time applications.
- Experience integrating external APIs or real-time data feeds into game engines.
- Ability to work effectively in a small, fast-paced startup team.
- Preferred proficiency in Roblox Studio and Luau.
- Preferred experience with procedural animation, motion capture, or other game engines (Unity, Unreal).
What we bring to the table
- A founding role with opportunity to gain early-stage equity.
- Flexible working and a small, collaborative team
- Opportunities to work with major sports, gaming and technology partners
- 30 days’ holiday including bank holidays, increasing by one day for each completed year of service up to a maximum of 35 days.
- Access to a pension scheme
- After six months of service, permanent employees can access our discretionary sick pay scheme, including up to four weeks’ top-up to full pay in a rolling 12-month period.
- Training and development opportunities to help you build new skills and grow in your role.
- Real ownership over your work and the opportunity to help shape the product and how we build it.
- As the company grows, there will be opportunities to take on broader responsibility across games engineering and technical leadership.
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