Senior Programmer – Computer / Video Games - West Midlands
Fantastic opportunity for a Programmer to join a leading AAA Gaming Developer.
LOCATION: Birmingham / West Midlands
What makes it GREAT?
-Excellent opportunity for career progression, going through an exciting period of organic growth.
-Company has very low staff turnover, Excellent sign that they look after their staff.
-Exciting and diverse projects, working on Iconic projects on a variety of platforms.
Role:
- Develop and deliver high-quality game code for AAA Unreal 4 projects
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the programming team to develop fully realised and working game systems
- Communicate and collaborate with the Programming & Design Team to assist in delivering polished and immersive gaming experiences that meet design and technical requirements.
- Create and maintain game logic for gameplay mechanics and other supporting game play systems, including written automated tests.
- Work within the specification guidelines of the project and technology, keeping performance in mind as well as working with others to debug potential issues.
- Profiling and optimising code for memory and performance considerations on a per platform basis.
- Be responsible for scoping tasks, working to deadlines and communicating with production and if problems arise.
- Collaborate with design and production to establish achievable goals.
- Communicate with QA to help track down and fix priority bugs.
- You will be expected to solve problems independently
- You will be responsible for testing own logic by authoring automated tests as well as some manual validation testing
- Participate in code reviews as a reviewer, observer or author and assist in sharing knowledge making sure standards and efficiency are upheld
- Create technical designs and host discussions when creating new systems or expanding existing ones.
- Assist in maintaining existing documentation
- Provide support to other programmers when required
- Be able to effectively cherry pick and integrate change lists from other streams where necessary
- Work with leads from relevant areas to scope up new projects
- Assist in mentoring other engineers
COMPANY:
Based in the midlands my client is a fast-growing gaming developer working on exciting projects with a long-term pipeline of work to fuel further growth of the business and your career.
REQUIREMENTS:
To be considered for this Programmer role you must meet the following criteria:
- Professional C++ experience in the games industry producing production quality code.
- Demonstrate excellent understanding of Unreal Engines tools and actor based pipeline.
- Strong understanding of content structure and management of C++ code bases with the ability to quickly learn existing code bases.
- Good level of debugging skills, with the ability to perform profiling and optimisation.
- In-depth knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 blueprint logic and gameplay logic assemblies.
- Can quickly create prototypes to match design criteria.
- Is able to put together high quality production code for both single and multiplayer games.
- Understanding of sound programming practices.
- Practical problem solving applicable to 3D game development.
- In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following areas: Engine, AI, UI, Audio, Gameplay, Physics, Rendering, Multiplayer.
- Experienced with giving and receiving code reviews
REMUNERATION:
The successful Programmer will receive:
-Competitive Salary + Benefits
-Company bonus scheme
-Company outings & events
To be considered for this vacancy or to find out more information please apply now.
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