Lead Gameplay Programmer

November 10

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Description

• Manage talents of Gameplay Programmers team to achieve best possible result for the project and personal growth of team members • Set the vision and goals of the entire gameplay features. • Enhance and maintain the Gameplay part of PCF Framework (built on Unreal Engine 4) • Provide mentorship, direction and best in class engineering principles to ensure quality results and efficient working practices • Conduct regular code reviews and manage the coding team to excellence • Mentoring, managing and leading the Gameplay programming department • Provide day-to-day feedback and creatively solve problems • Work with production team to plan development and provide tasks assignment to programmers team schedule • Conceptualize playable elements and oversee the execution and implementation of those elements into game • Establish and document best practices for scripting and feature implementations • Develop and maintain the systems architecture necessary for other developers to implement features in the game • Test, debug, profile and optimize implementations • Supervision of documentation created by the team members • Conduct consistent performance reviews of staff members • Conduct recruitment projects with HR collaboration • Conduct onboarding to new hires

Requirements

• At least 7+ years of experience in the production of games for consoles and PC • At least one shipped AAA project from start to finish as Lead Gameplay Programmer • Excellent knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 • Excellent skills in C/C++ • Strong math skills • Strong familiarity with AI, physics, animation and gameplay code in general • Ability to diagnose problems and make quick and accurate decisions • Ability to write efficient and maintainable code • Experience with profiling and optimizations • Experience working on consoles such as PS4 and Xbox One • Experience with commonly used development tools such as Jira and Perforce • Ability to work well in a fluid, changing environment as creative challenges evolve • A keen sense of what makes gameplay systems fun • Ability to work well under pressure • Excellent communication and team attitude working with game developers from all disciplines • High work ethic and self-motivated • Passion for games

Benefits

• 100% group health insurance benefit premiums paid by PCF (Medical, Dental, Vision, Group Life, and Supplemental Live) and start on day 1 of employment. • 401K with 100% match, up to 3% of employee salary, and vested immediately. • Paid week off during Winter Holidays. • 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days. • Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents. • A competitive salary and performance-based annual bonuses. • Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment. • Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.