Principal Gameplay Engineer

Description

• Substantial performance-related pay system on top of your basic compensation, along with enhanced pension contributions and our life assurance scheme.
• 4 day work week: Tuesday - Friday
• 20 days of annual leave, equivalent to 5 weeks within a 4 day work week.
• Summer & Winter closure, not taken from holiday allowance - 1st full week of August and Christmas Eve to New Years day.
• Bespoke VISA and relocation packages for you and your family, with support from our team throughout the whole process.
• Private Medical and Dental Cover for you and your family, along with a 24/7 digital GP service.
• Extensive Mental Health support, with Line Manager Mental Health training, a group of Mental Health First-Aiders, and on-site or remote counselling.
• Our bespoke Learning and Development course framework to help you grow as an employee, manager, and leader.
• Industry-leading fully paid 30 weeks maternity leave & 10 weeks paternity leave.

• Working with members of multiple disciplines to effectively elicit requirements and translate them into technical designs.
• Identifying and championing best practices within your specialist domain.
• Working effectively in open and collaborative environments.
• Employing a can-do attitude to solve difficult problems as part of an agile, fast-moving and highly-focused team.
• Writing clear, maintainable and portable code.
• Communicating ideas, intent and constraints to both technical and non-technical team members.  

• Expert practical knowledge of C++, with relevant professional experience.
• Expert understanding of game-development related 3D maths principles.
• The people skills and ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical team members.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to self-organise.
• Professional experience iteratively implementing gameplay features from inception to delivery.
• Experience mentoring junior team members and providing clear and considered feedback.
• Experience working in all phases of game development, from feature design and implementation to bug-fixing. 

• Professional development experience with real-time networked multiplayer games.
• Professional Unreal Engine 5 development experience.
• Experience with Python programming
• Experience with multi-threaded development
• Experience developing for modern consoles.
• Experience profiling and optimising code for optimal CPU, memory and bandwidth usage.
• Experience developing open world games and procedural content generation.
• Experience in animation programming.