Tools Engineering Senior

Job Description Makeshift Software Inc | Remote (3–6 months) → Hybrid On-Site | Full-Time

We're a small, focused team building something visually distinct — moody, atmospheric, and combat-driven — and the faster and smoother our own team can work, the faster that vision reaches players. The Role We're looking for an experienced Senior Internal Tools Engineer to own developer workflow, runtime performance, and internal engine tooling for Hexborn . You'll build the custom editors, inspectors, and proprietary tools that let designers, artists, and engineers work faster and with fewer footguns — and you'll dig into runtime performance issues that affect the whole team, not just a single system.

You won't be handed a fixed spec — you'll be identifying where the team is losing time or hitting friction, and building the tools and workflow improvements that fix it at the source.

Refine and streamline developer workflow across the team, removing friction from day-to-day content creation and iteration
Investigate and resolve runtime performance issues that affect broad swaths of the game, not just isolated systems
Design and build internal engine tools that support designers, artists, and engineers working across Hexborn's systems
Build and maintain custom Inspector windows and proprietary editor tools tailored to our content pipelines
Collaborate closely with every discipline on the team — engineering, art, design, and production — to understand where tooling investment will have the most impact
Help establish and maintain internal tooling standards and conventions as the team and codebase scale
Demonstrated experience building custom Inspectors, editor windows, and internal tools
Strong background in runtime performance profiling and optimization
A track record of identifying workflow friction and turning it into shipped tooling, not just documentation
Strong C# fundamentals and comfort working across engine-level and gameplay-adjacent code
Faceware Mark IV mocap helmets for facial performance capture
Remote-first for the first 3–6 months, transitioning to hybrid on-site thereafter

Work Arrangement We'll start fully remote for a 3–6 month grace period while you ramp up and get embedded with the team, then transition to a hybrid on-site schedule.

Makeshift Software Inc . is the developer and publisher of Hexborn.