Senior Gameplay Programmer

As a Gameplay Programmer, you exist at the intersection between code and content, building a modern technical platform and writing feature-specific code to create exciting gameplay features. This senior role involves designing, maintaining, developing, and testing player-facing gameplay systems and internal tools. You will drive project planning and execution, support creative disciplines, and ensure smooth development through efficient communication with other technical teams and QA.

Must Have

• Design, maintain, develop and test player facing gameplay systems and internal tools.
• Drive the planning and execution of projects to deliver technical solutions for a wide variety of game features.
• Support the creative disciplines in joint projects to develop exciting new gameplay features.
• Take part in knowledge sharing and support the growth and development of your fellow colleagues.
• Ensure smooth development via efficient communication with other technical disciplines.
• Work closely with QA to squash bugs and ensure smooth releases.
• Facilitate communication between the technical disciplines and content developers as well as producers.
• Around 5 years of experience in the gaming industry.
• Solid understanding of C++ and tools commonly used in the games industry.
• Care about the player experience and have the ability to view the game through the player’s eyes.
• Strong communicator with the ability to break down complex topics.
• Great mentor who makes the people around you shine.
• Born organizer who keeps a holistic view of your project and feels comfortable driving cooperation.
• Enjoy supporting colleagues both inside and outside of the programming discipline.
• Solid understanding of memory and CPU profiling.
• Used to working with version control systems (Perforce).
• Experience working with proprietary game engines and editors.
• Familiar with database concepts (MySQL).
• Experience working with testing frameworks.

Perks & Benefits

• Developing the world's best horse-riding game for girls.
• 30 vacation days (+ 3 additional squeeze days).
• A pension and insurance plan that mimics ITP1.
• Parental pay top-up @90%.
• Health allowance at 5000 SEK per year.
• Hybrid working model.
• Fitness discount of 18% at SATS gym + company workout classes.
• A dog room at the office.

About Star Stable Entertainment

Once upon a time in 2011, the founders of Star Stable Entertainment had a vision. They wanted to create a game that could make a difference. Although half of gamers are girls and women, they were under-represented in the gaming industry, both as characters and creators. We dreamed of an epic online world where tween and teen girls could share an amazing experience. And we wanted to challenge how things were done in a male-dominated industry. Fast forward to today, and our dream has come true tenfold - Star Stable Online stands as one of the most popular MMORPGs globally! At our HQ on Södermalm, our 140 employees are thrilled to continue to welcome players to the island of Jorvik, with its breathtaking scenery, beautiful horses, and magical quests. It’s wonderful to see that our dream resonates with so many players around the world, and we can’t wait to share more stories and experiences with them!

The position

As a Gameplay Programmer, you exist at the intersection between code and content, with one foot in either world. On one side, you’re building a modern and future-proof technical platform while on the other, you are writing feature specific code to bring the combined creativity of code and content to life as exciting gameplay features.

Are you interested in working on diverse tasks ranging from under the hood data processing to making the player camera feel smooth? Do you like working closely with creative designers and artists as well as other programmers and technical QA?

Then we have an opportunity for you as we are currently looking to strengthen our Gameplay team with a Senior Gameplay programmer!

As a Senior Gameplay Programmer, you will:

• Design, maintain, develop and test player facing gameplay systems and internal tools.
• Drive the planning and execution of projects to deliver technical solutions for a wide variety of game features.
• Support the creative disciplines in joint projects to develop exciting new gameplay features.
• Take part in knowledge sharing and support the growth and development of your fellow colleagues.
• Ensure smooth development via efficient communication with other technical disciplines such as Engine, Server and Tools.
• Work closely with QA to squash bugs and ensure smooth releases.
• Facilitate communication between the technical disciplines and content developers as well as producers.

We think you

• Have around 5 years of experience in the gaming industry.
• Have a very solid understanding of C++ and tools commonly used in the games industry.
• Care about the player experience and have the ability to view the game through the player’s eyes.
• Are a strong communicator with the ability to break down complex topics for technical and non-technical colleagues alike.
• Are a great mentor who makes the people around you shine.
• Are a born organizer who keeps a holistic view of your project and feels comfortable driving cooperation with other disciplines.
• Enjoy supporting colleagues both inside and outside of the programming discipline.
• Have a solid understanding of memory and CPU profiling.
• Are used to working with version control systems (We use Perforce).
• Have experience working with proprietary game engines and editors.
• Are familiar with database concepts (We use MySQL).
• Have experience working with testing frameworks.

Perks for joining us?

• A pretty sweet mission. We are developing the world's best horse-riding game for girls and we take that vision very seriously. We strive to hit that mark every single day.
• 30 vacation days (+ 3 additional squeeze days).
• A pension and insurance plan that mimics ITP1 and a parental pay top-up @90%.
• Health allowance at 5000 SEK per year.
• Hybrid working model - combine WFH and being together with the team at our new office located right amidst Södermalm GameDev cluster (Magnus Ladulåsgatan 65)
• Fitness discount of 18% at SATS gym + company workout classes.
• A dog room at the office! Bring your furry friend to work!

Are you ready to be a chapter on this magical journey? Apply now! We can’t wait to hear your story!