Game Developer

About Nitro Studios

Nitro Studios builds and operates original games within Fortnite’s UGC ecosystem, focusing on fast-paced, highly replayable experiences.

• First year: 12 games shipped, over 22 million plays, 9 million unique players and 450 million minutes played — one of the top Fortnite creators worldwide, without paid user acquisition.
• Founded in 2026 in Tel Aviv: fully bootstrapped, already profitable and continuing to grow.
• Founder-led audience insight: a background in gaming content and YouTube channels with large followings, treating player understanding as a core design constraint from thumbnail to first-session experience.
• Short, iterative loops: games are continuously updated with new content, events and balance changes based on live data.

Role description

The Game Developer will design, implement, and iterate on game features and systems for Fortnite UGC titles, collaborating closely with game designers, artists, and data analysts. Day to day, you will:

• Gameplay development: build core mechanics and game systems.
• Performance and polish: optimize performance and ensure smooth, bug-free player experiences.
• Rapid prototyping: test ideas quickly and respond to player data.
• Live games: ship frequent updates, events and balance passes across multiple live games.
• Tight iteration cycles: work closely with the team to deliver high-impact releases.

What we’re looking for

• Passion: a strong passion for games and game development.
• Fast learner: extremely quick to pick up new tools, systems and technologies, and enjoys it.
• Creative thinker: strong problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail: an unwillingness to settle for “good enough”.
• Great to work with: positive, friendly, humble and enjoyable.
• Ownership: a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Independent: comfortable working alone and figuring things out without constant guidance.
• Versatile: excited to take on different challenges rather than stay inside a narrow job description.
• Flexible: willing to push when an important release or update requires it.
• Helpful: happy to help wherever needed and contribute beyond the minimum required.
• Ambitious: looking for a place to grow quickly.
• Excited by scale: genuinely excited by the opportunity to build games that reach millions of players.

Nice to have

• UEFN or Unreal Engine: experience with either.
• Shipped something: experience building games or interactive experiences.
• Verse: familiarity with Verse or other scripting/programming environments.
• AI-assisted development: experience with modern AI-assisted development tools.
• Live games: an understanding of progression systems, retention or player engagement.
• Things you built: personal game projects, prototypes, mods, or anything else you have made.

Location

Full-time, on-site — Tel Aviv District, Israel.