Senior Programmer – Unannounced Games – Midlands, UK – Permanent

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it is safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Project: AAA Console/PC Action Games

OPM’s client is an award-winning client is seeking a Senior Programmer who will join their new team developing on a new and unannounced AAA title. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and implementing systems and game code.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Extensive industry experience, having played a role in shipping at least one game
• Strong experience programming for console or mobile with proficient C/C++ skills
• Ability to writes clear, debuggable, maintainable and performance targeted code.
• Superb bug diagnosis and debugging skills.
• Brilliant communication skills, including with team members outside of the code team.
• Good time management skills, including planning, organising, and prioritising in conjunction with the code team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• You will design, develop, write, test, and implement systems and game code.
• You will work with multiple disciplines involved in the development process as required to create the best possible product.
• You will help to create technical design specifications and implement them.
• You will test and refine gameplay features throughout the development cycle.
• You will estimate task times and deliver quality code to that timetable.
• You will mentor junior team members
• You will perform code reviews to ensure code quality

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience with art packages and pipeline development.
• Experience with low level optimisation, shader programming, physics, or mathematics.
• Understanding of cloud server and network backend systems.
• Understanding of industry standard development practices including source control, asset pipelines, issue tracking, external QA, and localisation teams.
• Experience with post-launch and on-going product development and delivery.
• Experience with continuous integration and build automation.
• Worked in an Agile development environment.
• Demonstrable portfolio of relevant extra-curricular or hobbyist projects.

COMPANY BENEFITS:

• Holidays – 23 days paid annual leave plus all 8 UK bank holidays
• Bonus Anniversary Holidays – An additional day of annual leave for each year’s anniversary
• Team Project Bonuses
• Private Medical Insurance Scheme
• Private Dental Insurance Scheme
• Train Travel Season Ticket Loan
• Dog Friendly Workspace

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 415!

Tagged as: AAA, C, Mobile