Lead Gameplay Programmer – AAA Multiplayer PC/Console Games #4dayworkweek Onsite, London

One Player Mission’s client is all about crafting the world’s most engaging multiplayer experiences. For more than 20 years, they have been creating team-based multiplayer experiences that have entertained tens of millions of players all over the world. They are looking for a talented and passionate Lead Gameplay Programmer to help create them.

As a Lead Gameplay Programmer, you will consider the skills and talents of your team members and use their experience to identify risk, build roadmaps and become a force-multiplier for your team, mentoring them every step of the way.

• Setting clear technical direction, intent and best practices within your team.
• Identifying risks and blockers early and proactively removing them.
• Working effectively in open and collaborative environments.
• Working closely with project leadership to plan long term road maps and improve development processes.
• Seeing the big picture impact of decisions and critically evaluating them.
• Write clear, maintainable and scalable code as needed
• Nurturing professional growth within your team with an enthusiastic attitude and a team-first mentality.
• Communicating ideas, intent and constraints to both technical and non-technical team members.

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Expert knowledge of C++, with relevant professional experience.
• Strong understanding of game-development related 3D maths principles.
• The leadership skills to lead a gameplay development team.
• Professional experience iteratively implementing gameplay features from inception to delivery.
• Experience working in all phases of game development, from feature design to planning and establishing roadmaps, implementation, and bug-fixing.
• Able to analyse and debug unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand and extend the functionality of an existing module.
• Has knowledge and experience driving an agile methodology within a team.
• Experience working closely with design teams to elicit requirements and design gameplay systems.
• Ability to review and give feedback on teams work in a clear and constructive manner.

BONUS SKILLS (Good to have)

• Professional development experience with real-time networked multiplayer games.
• Professional Unreal Engine 4 development experience on PC and/or consoles.
• Experience with multi-threaded development
• Experience developing for Xbox Series, PlayStation5, Xbox One and/or PS4.
• Experience profiling and optimising code for optimal CPU, memory and bandwidth usage.
• Experience in animation programming.
• Experience developing procedurally generated environments.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call me directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214418!