Senior Game Developer - Classic Titles

Beamdog is a fantastic place to work with a friendly and creative atmosphere. Located in Edmonton, Alberta, we're a hardworking team of passionate game developers who love the games we work on. Since 2009, we’ve brought enhanced versions of classic Dungeons & Dragons games and exciting original content to fans new and old. We’re best known for bringing beloved isometric roleplaying games like Baldur’s Gate™ and Planescape: Torment™ back to life on desktop and tablets as Enhanced Editions. We love rich stories where players can chose their own journey and the communities that spring up around them. If you’re excited about storytelling games, Dungeons & Dragons, and classic RPGs, stick around! You haven’t seen anything yet!

Position Summary: 

Are you a fan of classic RPGs? Do you feel nostalgic thinking about Dungeons and Dragons games? Do you have years of experience in the industry and can maintain existing games with ease? Beamdog, the company behind Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, and Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Editions, plus Axis & Allies Online, is looking for a Senior Game Developer to help us develop and maintain our existing titles and live services!

As a member of the Beamdog team, you will work with existing games and services alongside the developers that created them, to maintain and improve our classic titles on modern platforms and stores by programming, optimizing, and problem-solving with our Live Ops team. With your experience in game development, you will champion excellence in live operations, development, and best practices on the team. Help us continue our adventure with these classic titles!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain classic games on multiple platforms
• Maintain existing Beamdog online services
• Identify and recommend solutions to technical problems in implementations
• Work to bring the existing classic games to new technologies and customers
• Assist your team in keeping technical documentation well maintained

Education and Core Skills Requirements:

• 3+ years experience building games; minimum 1 shipped game title
• Knowledge of modern C++ and best practices in legacy code
• Experience working with proprietary C++ game engines and related libraries and SDKs

Bonus Points:

• Experience developing in macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS
• Experience with other programming languages such as C#.
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, RDS, Cloudfront, S3, etc.
• Effective in creative and dynamic team environments that can iterate quickly on ideas
• Proven track record of delivering professional-quality work

We offer the following perks:

• Work from anywhere within Canada or come join us in Edmonton!
• 3 weeks of flexible vacation plus a 1-week holiday closure per year.
• Generous sick and personal days
• Flexible working hours
• NO CRUNCH policy
• RRSP Matching Program
• Vision, dental, and extended health benefits
• Health & wellness spending account

Diversity is fundamentally about valuing human differences and recognizing that a diverse group of people bring with them a diverse set of skills which is necessary to propel our company forward. Beamdog is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified persons. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.