Senior Game Engineer  

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement complex in-game features for an existing game in development.
• Ensure performance of the game by:
  • Reducing memory usage
  • Efficient asset management
  • Improving load times
  • Improving rendering performance
• Assistance with implementation of art, animation, audio and VFX.
• Collaborate with the designer to iterate on existing features in order to further improve gamepla.
• Write unity editor extensions as needed
• Contribute any visual improvement to the game such as shaders, post processing effects, etc.
• Study and research new trends that are emerging in new games and identify those that can be used to improve our own games.
• Update unity asset store assets we use, identify useful features for each update.
• Research new assets in the unity asset store that we can use to save time on development.
• Research and implement any required frameworks and perform any work related to certification for specific platforms (Nintendo, Steam, etc.)
• Maintain a library of game agnostic code and features that we can make use of for future projects.

As a skilled and self-motivated programmer who loves a creative, collaborative environment, you will handle the end-to-end engineering required to build and ship a game.

Requirements:

• 5+ years game industry experience.
• Ability to build and lead a small engineering team.
• Credited on at least two commercial games from start to finish.
• A wizard at using Unity, C# and familiarity with common plugins.
• A natural knack for building good game architecture.
• Experience in multiple aspects of game programming such as tools, gameplay, AI, performance, UI, and graphics.
• Able to manage self and work totally unsupervised.
• Game enthusiast, stays up to date on trends.

Plusses

• Experience with console certification.