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How Lighthouse Games hires

Truth index
A 100/100
Median time to fill
41 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Lighthouse Games scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 16 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 41 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

Headquartered in Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom, Lighthouse Games is an independent AAA video game development studio specializing in high-budget PC and console titles. Founded in 2022 by Playground Games co-founder Gavin Raeburn, the company focuses on building original intellectual property on Unreal Engine, with a primary emphasis on innovative driving and racing games. By combining veteran industry leadership with cutting-edge production technology, the studio develops immersive, highly polished interactive experiences for a global gaming audience.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Lighthouse Games over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
25
Stack modernity
66/100
Languages
C++40%
HLSL20%
Python16%
PowerShell4%
Frameworks & libraries
Unreal Engine92%
Unreal Niagara8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS12%
Azure12%
Figma8%
Kubernetes8%
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Full Lighthouse Games tech stack 29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
47/100
Stable
Open positions
20
3 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
41 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~9 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Games
54% ▲
Design
12% ▲
Industrial Engineering
12% ▼
Frontend
8% ▼
DevOps
4% ▲
QA
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Games (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Royal Leamington Spa Oct 2026
Added Sketch to stack Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Royal Leamington Spa
Royal Leamington Spa United Kingdom
HQ
20 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 80% engineering
hires for Games, Design, QA
seen since Jul 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $51k – $144k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
C++
Unreal Engine
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≈ $67k – $134k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
Python
PowerShell
Lighthouse
DevOps
Ansible
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
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≈ $60k – $138k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
C++
Lighthouse
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
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Hybrid · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
Unreal Engine
Design
Figma
Sketch
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≈ $51k – $145k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
Unreal Engine
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≈ $79k – $206k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
Unreal Engine
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≈ $102k – $216k per year (Estimated) · In office · Royal Leamington Spa
Python
SQL
Lighthouse
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≈ $50k – $143k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
Lighthouse
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Substance 3D Designer
HLSL
Design
Substance 3D Painter
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≈ $61k – $152k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
Lighthouse
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Substance 3D Designer
HLSL
Design
Substance 3D Painter
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≈ $60k – $112k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Royal Leamington Spa
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≈ $50k – $142k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
Lighthouse
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Houdini
HLSL
Unreal Niagara
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≈ $59k – $148k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Royal Leamington Spa
Unreal Engine
Houdini
HLSL
Unreal Niagara
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