Description
As a Senior Coder you will be responsible for working with the rest of the development department to take our games from concept to completion. You'll work on a wide variety of areas of each game, and will be actively collaborating with team members of other disciplines. You will have the opportunity to work in a flexible environment, and to add your own ideas into the mix in order to create the most enjoyable and entertaining game possible.
As a candidate for the Senior Coder role you are expected to have proven experience within a senior/lead role, with broad experience working across a wide variety of game systems. Importantly you must also be self-motivating, a strong team player who is proactive and with a personal desire to deliver at the highest standard.
Responsibilities:
- Taking core gameplay features from a design through development all the way through bugfixing and polish
- Ensuring the pieces you build that create amazing gameplay experiences are clean, efficient, and polished
- Building game systems architecture
- Memory and framerate profiling and optimisation
- Mentoring and/or managing other members of the programming team
Requirements:
- Excellent technical implementation skills
- Good knowledge of modern game engines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid understanding of coding processes, standards and methodologies
- Creative, innovative, and conscientious in solving complex technical problems
- Focused but adaptable; flexible and open to change
- Comfortable working within a fast-paced team environment
- A passion for playing and making games
Experience:
- At least 5 years' experience in games development
- At least 2 shipped games including one in a senior or lead role
- Experience with gameplay programming
- Experience with prototyping and rapid iteration of features
- C# programming experience
- Experience building prototypes and/or full games in Unity or Unreal
- Experience with networking, multiplayer, and/or database systems
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