Senior Engine Programmer – AAA Games – Guildford

Job Title: Senior Engine Programmer

Job Location: Guildford, UK

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive

Project: AAA Games

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Our client empowers creators to shape the future of gaming and achieve this by developing leading-edge engine features and world-class tools. Their talented team from across the globe is dedicated to building innovative technology and working closely with each other to ship amazing games. They are looking for a motivated and talented Senior Engine Programmer to join their high calibre team.

The successful candidate would be working as part of a small team, directly engaged with game teams around the globe to deliver outstanding innovation and performance on across all platforms and new platforms as they emerge.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Excellent experience with C++.
• Proven ability and experience in a leadership position
• Advanced background in real-time / time-critical systems & multiple hardware platforms – preferably game platform hardware.
• Great communication skills to be able to work with different individuals and teams
• Passion for good workflows and well-architected software.
• The ability to adapt quickly and effectively to change

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaboratively working to deliver high-quality cross-platform products in C++.
• Play your part to define and grow the engineering culture of teams within the company.
• Working with product and project leaders and your team members to understand customer needs and delivering incredible value in an incremental and high impact way.
• Ensuring their designs are simple and effective with excellent workflows and features.
• Working on documentation and testing in parallel to accelerate ease of use and future maintenance of their technology.
• To mentor and coach less experienced engineers.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.
• Low-level application programming such as UNIX, Windows and/or Console OS APIs.
• WPF and other GUI design experience
• Graphics or Video experience e.g. Image Processing, codecs, OpenGL, Direct3D, DirectX etc.
• Physics domain expertise and knowledge of game physics and animation.
• Understanding of mechanics, maths and numerical methods.
• Evidence of delivering tools and workflows using C# and WPF (or similar) to develop complex applications, and to empower content creators.
• Experience of Agile (Scrum) based software development management and other models

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 422!

Tagged as: Engine Programming, Senior/Lead Programmer