Roblox Corporation (NYSE: RBLX) is an immersive global online gaming and user-generated content (UGC) platform headquartered in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2004 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, the company operates an end-to-end 3D digital ecosystem consisting of three core components: Roblox Client (the application through which users explore virtual experiences), Roblox Studio (the proprietary toolset that allows creators and developers to build 3D worlds), and Roblox Cloud (the infrastructure that powers real-time services and multiplayer hosting).
HQ: San Mateo, United States • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI • Gaming • Metaverse • Game Development • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2004
≈ $56k – $141k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 15+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Vancouver, Canada) • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Senior
C++
C++
DirectX
OpenGL
Mobile
Metal
CD Projekt Red is a video game development studio specializing in narrative-driven, open-world role-playing games (RPGs). Headquartered in Warsaw, Poland (with development hubs in Kraków, Wrocław, Boston, and Vancouver), it functions as the flagship game-development subsidiary of publicly traded parent company CD PROJEKT S.A. (WSE: CDR)
Warsaw • Boston • Vancouver • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2002
≈ $64k – $160k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Vancouver, Canada) • Full-Time • Senior • English
C++
AI/ML
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
Game Dev
Unity
Unreal Engine
Design
Blender
Maya
People Can Fly is a Warsaw video game developer founded in 2002 and known for fast-paced shooters. It created Painkiller, Bulletstorm and Outriders and co-developed Gears of War: Judgment with Epic Games. The studio is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and runs additional teams in Poland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
HQ: Warsaw, Poland • Est. 2002
Junior • 2+ years exp • Montreal • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Senior • French: C1 • English: C1
Unreal Engine
Design
3ds Max
Maya
Management
Confluence
≈ $26k – $100k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Montreal • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Senior • French: C1 • English: C1
Unreal Engine
Design
3ds Max
Maya
≈ $54k – $137k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 3+ years exp • Montreal • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Senior • French: C1 • English
Unreal Engine
Design
3ds Max
Adobe Photoshop
Blender
Maya
ZBrush
3Lateral is a Serbian technology company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Novi Sad. It develops digital human scanning and facial animation technology for games and film. The company is part of Epic Games.
HQ: Novi Sad, Serbia • Animation • Gaming • Media & Entertainment • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2011
≈ $56k – $142k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (Vancouver, Canada) • Senior
Houdini
Unity
Unreal Engine
Design
3ds Max
Blender
Maya
≈ $54k – $136k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (Vancouver, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
C#
C++
Go
Java
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
≈ $76k – $154k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years exp • In office (Vancouver, Canada) • Staff
Side's real estate brokerage platform empowers top-producing agents to own their own companies without the burden of operating a brokerage.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • PropTech • Real Estate • Real Estate Brokerage • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $73k – $185k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Fort Lauderdale • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • Senior
≈ $84k – $224k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Contractor
≈ $85k – $227k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, Canada) • Contractor
Unity
Unreal Engine
Houdini
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Blender
Maya
Substance 3D Painter
Blackbird Interactive is an independent Canadian video game development studio headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in 2007 by former Electronic Arts and Relic Entertainment veterans, the studio specializes in immersive real-time strategy (RTS) games, sci-fi simulations, and rich narrative experiences. Blackbird Interactive is best known for developing acclaimed titles within the Homeworld franchise, the space-salvage simulation game Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and co-developing major action-strategy titles such as Minecraft Legends.
Vancouver • Console Games • Gaming • Game Development • Est. 2010
$83k – $108k per year • Senior • 8+ years exp • Vancouver • Remote (Canada) • Contractor • Senior
$78k – $95k per year • Middle • 3+ years exp • Vancouver • Remote (Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
C++
DevOps
Git
Game Dev
Chaos Physics
Unreal Engine
≈ $26k – $100k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Canada • Remote (Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
C++
DevOps
Git
Game Dev
Chaos Physics
Unreal Engine
Keywords Studios is a global video game service provider offering technical, creative, and localization services to the international video game and entertainment industries. The company delivers a full spectrum of solutions, including game development, art creation, audio production, testing, localization, and player support for major game publishers and developers. Operating from dozens of studios across the world, it supports the entire life cycle of interactive media and digital content.
HQ: Dublin, Ireland • Media & Entertainment • Gaming • Game Development • 501-1000 employees
≈ $61k – $126k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada, Mexico) • Contractor
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Cinema 4D
≈ $72k – $149k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, United Kingdom, Canada) • Bachelor's Degree • Contractor
≈ $53k – $134k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Senior • French: C1 • Polish
Python
AI/ML
Supervision
Aider
Game Dev
Lumen
Unreal Engine
Nanite
Design
3ds Max
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Blender
DaVinci Resolve
Maya
Management
Confluence
Jira
Miro
Kabam is a prominent mobile video game developer and publisher headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Originally founded in 2006 as Watercooler, Inc. by Kevin Chou, Michael Li, Holly Liu, and Wayne Chan, the company initially developed social network applications before pivoting into free-to-play, mid-core mobile and web gaming. Acquired by South Korean gaming giant Netmarble in 2017, Kabam specializes in developing visually rich, narrative-driven massively multiplayer online (MMO) and action role-playing games (RPGs) built on high-profile global intellectual properties.
HQ: Vancouver, Canada • Gaming • Mobile Games • Est. 2006
$90k – $115k per year • Lead • 5+ years exp • In office (Vancouver, Canada) • PhD • Full-Time • Staff
Vector
Game Dev
Spine
Unity
Unreal Engine
Design
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Devoted Studios is an external production management company and art outsourcing partner for the video game industry. Operating as a distributed network of specialized creative talent, the studio provides full-cycle game development services including 2D/3D concept art, character design, animation, VFX, and co-development. By combining centralized production control with top-tier freelance artists and boutique teams, it helps game developers scale their production capabilities seamlessly across major PC, console, and mobile titles.
Montreal • Los Angeles • Toronto • Design & Creative • Gaming • Game Development
≈ $71k – $146k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Montreal • Remote (Canada) • Senior
C++
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
≈ $55k – $138k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Montreal • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Senior
Parallel Domain generates photorealistic synthetic data and simulation to train and validate perception systems for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and AI.
Mesa • Vancouver • Smart Mobility • Transportation & Logistics • Autonomous Driving • 51-200 employees
≈ $86k – $174k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Vancouver • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Principal
C++
Python
AI/ML
ComfyUI
Diffusion Models
LLM
Gaussian Splatting
Game Dev
HLSL
Houdini
Unreal Engine
Design
3ds Max
Blender
We Make Games. High Voltage Software is a world-class, award-winning game developer with over 25 years’ experience. From first-person shooters to collectible card games to platformers- if you can dream it, we can make it. We Love What We Do. High Voltage prides itself on creating high-quality interactive content and crafting immersive experiences that take players to unimaginable worlds.
Power Grid • Est. 1993
≈ $60k – $151k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Remote (Canada) • Full-Time • Senior • English
C++
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Skydance is a media company headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and founded in 2010 by David Ellison. The company produces feature films, television, animation, video games, and sports content, with credits including the Mission: Impossible and Top Gun franchises alongside its own animated features. It completed a merger with Paramount Global in 2025, giving the combined company a major studio, streaming service, and broadcast network.
HQ: Santa Monica, United States • Animation • Game Development • Gaming • TV Production • Film Production • Media & Entertainment • Est. 2010
≈ $101k – $204k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Santa Monica • Remote (United States, Canada) • Full-Time • Principal
C++
Game Dev
Unreal Engine
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| All levels |
8 |
$72K |
$108K |
$122K |
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 32 open Game Developer jobs in Vancouver from 12 companies. 9 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
8 of these Game Developer jobs in Vancouver state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $72K and $122K a year, with a median of $108K. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are Canada (1). 75% of the listings are fully remote and a further 13% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Game Developer jobs in Vancouver right now are Blackbird Interactive (8), People Can Fly (6), Side (4), 3Lateral (3), Keywords Studios (3), and Devoted Studios (2). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Unreal Engine (28), C++ (13), Maya (11), 3ds Max (9), Adobe Photoshop (8), Blender (8), Unity (6), and Lumen (5). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Game Developer jobs in Vancouver, 2 state visa sponsorship and 1 includes equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
