Senior Engineer, Full-Stack Technology - Minecraft
About The Position
Mojang Studios, the creators of Minecraft, is seeking a Senior Engineer based in Redmond with expertise spanning user interfaces, application logic, services, and data integration. In this hands-on role, you will build and maintain accessible, secure, and reliable software using modern development practices. You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering partners to translate requirements into clear technical solutions, and evaluate tools and approaches—including new technologies where appropriate—based on usability, quality, performance, and long-term maintainability. You will provide technical leadership through mentoring, thoughtful design reviews, and strong end-to-end engineering standards. The role supports Mojang Studios’ mission to help people create and play together and to foster an inclusive Minecraft community. The position involves taking products from early exploration through launch and live operation, with attention to usability, performance, security, privacy, responsible technology use, reliability, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; or a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 12+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
- Experience building production applications across user interfaces, application logic, APIs, and data integrations, with attention to usability, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Experience translating product and design requirements into coherent end-to-end experiences and evolving prototypes into reliable production software.
- Solid software-engineering fundamentals and ability to write production-quality code using modern practices, including GitHub, CI/CD, automated testing, and code reviews.
- Experience with modern client or web application frameworks, backend services, API design, and scalable data storage.
- Experience integrating model-backed features, retrieval, or agentic workflows into usable products with clear feedback, failure handling, and evaluation.
- Experience designing accessible interfaces and improving user journeys through telemetry, customer feedback, usability work, and controlled experiments.
- Experience with application and service observability, performance profiling, automated end-to-end testing, and dependable release practices.
- Experience taking products from early exploration through launch and live operation while managing cross-team technical dependencies.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, technical mentorship, and ability to collaborate across product, design, engineering, and non-technical teams.
Nice To Haves
- Games-industry knowledge and an interest in technology that enables players, creators, and development teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design and implementation across application layers, establishing standards for quality, maintainability, and engineering consistency.
- Build and improve user interfaces, application logic, APIs, and data integrations, using automated testing and dependable development practices while contributing hands-on production code.
- Partner with design, product, and engineering teams to solve usability and integration problems, document technical interfaces, and manage cross-team dependencies.
- Raise engineering standards through technical mentorship, design and code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and clear standards for accessibility, security, privacy, responsible technology use, performance, and maintainability.
- Use telemetry, user feedback, testing, and operational learning to improve software usability, performance, reliability, and end-to-end quality.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
