Senior Unreal Game Developer

Date Posted: 07.11.19

Type: Full-time on-site

Salary: Competitive

Puny Astronaut is looking for a talented Senior Game Programmer to join our team in Dundee!

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Game Programmer looking for a central role in an aspiring and creative development studio. You will have the chance to make a significant impact on our debut title, Skye, and all other projects you work on.

You will be working with a creative and driven team in a highly encouraging and supportive environment.

Responsibilities 

  • Work closely with the design team and code lead to shape core features and systems.

  • Adapt and expand upon studio pipeline and coding standards to create spectacular and immersive games and experiences.

  • Guide and mentor less experienced programmers so they can quickly improve within the studio.

  • Constantly take performance into account so our games can keep meeting our ambitious performance targets, even on the lowest end consoles.

  • Write and develop robust maintainable code.

  • Implement features across current and next-gen platforms.

  • Identify and solve technical problems as they arise, including cross-platform issues, debugging, profiling and optimising for reduced memory usage and increased real-time performance.

  • Collaborate productively, communicating ideas and issues clearly across disciplines.

  • Be responsive to deadlines and work well under pressure, meeting multiple production objectives and deadlines.

Essential Skills

  • At least 3 years’ games industry experience developing for multiple platforms on industry standard engines (Unreal/Unity).

  • Great working and technical knowledge of Unreal Engine with good understanding of blueprints and optimising code.

  • Excellent C++ programming skills with a familiarity of scripting systems like Python, Javascript/Nodejs.

  • Experience with current-gen consoles. Nintendo Switch an advantage.

  • Must have experience of the full game development life cycle.

  • Strong debugging, profiling and optimisation skills, specifically on low end devices.

  • Robust software engineering and software architecture principles and practices.

  • Good communication and team working with game developers from all disciplines.

  • Excellent initiative, self-motivation, organisational and problem solving skills, with the ability to both drive and follow direction.

Benefits

  • We believe in having a healthy work life balance so we try to always ensure we work a 9 - 5 workday whenever possible

  • We believe creative collaboration is at the heart of great experiences, so you will have lots of opportunities to bring your ideas to our games.

  • Our bespoke office is located in the newly developed Water’s Edge building overlooking the city’s quay at the heart of Dundee.

  • You will have the opportunity to work on both current and next-gen platforms.

  • Our team loves to play board games, but we do lots of other things too both in and out of work for everyone to get involved in.

  • We often organise out-of-office events such as game nights and dinners.

How to Apply

Please send the following materials to [email protected]

  • Your C.V.

  • A short cover letter introducing yourself.

We can’t wait to hear from you!