Lead Gameplay Programmer

Manage the talents of the Gameplay Programming team to deliver the most fun and engaging experience for players while maintaining a healthy and motivating environment for team members. This role involves assigning tasks, providing constructive feedback, evaluating performance, fostering a positive team atmosphere, and collaborating with various studio departments to achieve project goals and implement high-quality gameplay features.

Must Have

• Assign, delegate, and support individuals in their tasks, monitoring and reviewing progress.
• Provide constructive feedback and clear communications to enhance behavior and performance.
• Evaluate direct reports during periodic performance reviews for career development.
• Foster an engaging team atmosphere and ensure work-life balance.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with other Leads, Directors, and stakeholders.
• Follow the Director’s guidance/vision and implement it.
• Contribute to the Director’s direction by providing data, raising issues, seeking advice.
• Autonomously complete tasks and features in a timely fashion.
• Collaborate with PCF Framework to integrate and develop shared components.
• Work closely with Principal(s) and project Architect to implement high quality features and code.
• Proactively participate in code reviews to share knowledge.
• Stay informed of best practices and technical solutions.
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills.
• Excellent C++ programming language skills.
• Proficient with Source Control and Code Review tools (Swarm, Perforce, Git).
• Proficient with Project Management Software (JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience with multiple game engines.
• A keen sense of what makes gameplay systems fun.
• Ability to work with game developers from all disciplines.
• Strong 3D math knowledge.
• Strong familiarity with AI, physics, animation and gameplay code.
• Experience with profiling and optimizations.
• Experience working on consoles such as the PS5.
• Ability to write solid, reliable, efficient code.

Good to Have

• Experience with other programming languages (C# and Python).
• Experience working on multiplayer games.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Perks & Benefits

• Benefit package 100% paid by PCF (up to $1000 per service a year, individual/family coverage).
• Full Dental coverage, including major dental.
• 4% RRSP matching before tax deductions, 100% vested on day 1.
• Paid week off during the Winter Holidays.
• 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days.
• Free virtual health and mental well-being sessions for members and dependents.
• Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
• Work in a creative team with passionate individuals.

Main goal of the role:

Manage talents of the Gameplay Programming team to deliver the most fun and engaging experience for players while maintaining a healthy and motivating environment for team members.

Collaboration within the studio:

Production, QA, PCFF, All programmers, Recruitment, HR All Dev teams

Duties:

Core:

• Assigns, delegates, and supports individuals in their tasks, monitoring and reviewing the progress of their work.
• Provides constructive feedback and clear communications to enhance behavior and performance, ensuring a continuous improvement approach.
• Takes responsibility for evaluating their direct reports during periodic performance reviews, providing valuable insights and assessments toward their career development.
• Fosters an engaging atmosphere within their team, as well as ensuring a healthy worklife balance by setting clear expectations and scope of work, empowering individuals to propose solutions, and express their opinions.
• Utilizes data such as pulse checks and satisfaction scores.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively with other Leads, Directors, departments and project stakeholders on a continuous basis in order to notably build trust and work toward the project’s objectives and ambitions.
• Follows the Director’s guidance/vision and implements it.
• Contributes to the Director’s direction by providing important data, raising issues, seeking advice and relays them to relevant project leaders.
• Autonomously complete tasks and features in a timely fashion.
• Collaborating with PCF Framework to integrate and develop shared components, and augment stability/features of shared modules.
• Work closely with Principal(s) and project Architect to implement high quality features and code, proactively identify and address risk with the team.
• Proactively participate in code reviews to share knowledge and learn from other team members.
• Stay informed of best practices and technical solutions used at the company.

Gameplay:

• Work with the production team to plan development and provide tasks assignment to programmers team schedule.
• Oversee gameplay features from design conception to implementation in game.
• Collaborate with Designers and team members to guarantee all gameplay features provide a fun and engaging experience to the Player.
• 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.