Godot IDE Engineer

Godot has become popular with indie developers and newcomers to game programming as an accessible option for building games. However, despite its strengths, Godot lacks robust tools for collaboration. Currently, if you want to work with other people on a Godot project, your only real option is Git which has a steep learning curve: it’s a separate command-line tool designed for code, other assets like scene files or images are not very well supported, making collaboration frustrating and error-prone.

We’re fixing that.

Our team is building a new open-source version control system fully integrated into Godot. We already have a working prototype that’s implemented as a plugin running on a fork of the engine.

This project is in collaboration with the Endless Foundation, who use Godot to teach game development to students. Git has been a major barrier for their students; it eats up valuable time they’d rather spend actually building games. Even after learning Git, collaboration remains clunky and sequential.

We’ve successfully field-tested our prototype with 20 students during a two-week game design camp. Our next goal is to scale this into a fully functional plugin ready for public release. While our immediate focus is educational, we believe this plugin will be valuable to the broader Godot community. Our ultimate aim is to merge our patches back into the main Godot repository and maintain this as an open-source project that benefits the entire ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

• Build and refine core features in our Godot plugin
• Own major parts of the plugin — from UI to underlying data model
• Find the right balance to implement new features
• Help prioritize and scope features with the team
• Upstream API changes to Godot itself and coordinate with core contributors to land changes
• Reproduce bugs in real world Godot projects and fix them in the plugin

What We’re Looking For

• C++ experience, ideally with Godot IDE internals
• Hands-on experience building Godot plugins or contributing to Godot core
• Excited about prototyping new UIs
• Solid technical judgment: knowing when to invest deeply vs. when to cut corners
• Comfortable experimenting, iterating, and changing direction quickly

Bonus points for:

• Shipped games (especially in Godot)
• Experience working with youth or novice developers
• Background with other game engines or IDEs (Unity, Unreal, etc.)
• Production Rust experience

Who are we

Ink & Switch is an independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought. We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime. Our research spans a wide variety of domains from theoretical computer science to practical user experiences. We’ve published work on topics ranging from a malleable travel planning tool to programmable ink canvases to algorithms for collaborating on text data, and more.

How We Work

• Remote, async-first team
• Any location
• General availability between 16:00-18:00 UTC to overlap with North American and European team members

Project Information

• Timeline: late November 2025 to April 2026
• Commitment: full-time
• Compensation: $2,750 USD per week
• Meetings: Typically 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET / 09:30 PT

How to Apply

Send an email to jobs@inkandswitch.com with the following:

• Subject: $YOUR_NAME for Godot IDE Engineer
• A few words on why you’re interested in this role
• A link to your GitHub, GitLab, or equivalent
• Any relevant portfolio work