Senior Programmer

Kabam is seeking a highly experienced Senior Programmer to join their Montreal team. This pivotal full-time, on-site role involves building and maintaining advanced gameplay systems and tools, optimizing workflows, and ensuring high performance for game teams. The successful candidate will lead large-scale projects, resolve complex technical issues, and mentor junior engineers, contributing to the development of high-quality free-to-play games.

Must Have

• Design, implement, and maintain robust gameplay systems.
• Develop and improve custom tools for designers and artists.
• Collaborate on development schedules and monitor progress.
• Architect and implement extensible UI elements.
• Provide technical feedback on feature designs and feasibility.
• Actively participate in an agile environment.
• Build and support tools to improve workflows.
• Optimize game performance through analysis and profiling.
• Troubleshoot and resolve game issues related to memory, CPU, and run-time.
• Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent experience.
• Over 8 years in software development.
• Proven history of shipping multiple online games.
• Expert-level C# programming skills.
• Strong experience with GIT or Perforce.
• Deep proficiency with Unity.
• Expert ability to architect complex gameplay systems.
• Proven experience optimizing game performance across platforms.
• Experience in mobile development for Android and iOS.
• Familiarity with UI frameworks like Unity GUI or NGUI.
• Strong communication skills in French and English.

Good to Have

• Experience with multiple game engines.

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

We're looking for a highly experienced and skilled Senior Programmer to join our team. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your deep knowledge to build and maintain advanced systems and tools, optimizing workflows and ensuring high performance for our game teams. You'll lead large-scale projects, tackle complex issues, and play a key role in mentoring and coaching junior engineers.

This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our studio.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Build and Maintain Gameplay Systems: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable gameplay systems by writing clean code, conducting reviews, and collaborating with designers.
• Create New and Maintain Existing Tools for Designers and Artists: Develop, integrate, and improve custom tools and editors to empower designers and artists and enhance their content creation workflows.
• Participate in Development Scheduling: Collaborate with producers and project managers to estimate tasks, create development schedules, and monitor progress to ensure milestones are met.
• Build Screens, Widgets, and Other UI Elements: Architect and implement extensible, responsive UI elements like screens and widgets in close collaboration with the design team to realize their vision.
• Review Feature Designs and Provide Input on Costs and Possible Alternatives: Review feature designs and wireframes to provide technical feedback on feasibility, costs, and potential implementation alternatives.
• Work Closely in a Highly Collaborative and Agile Environment: Actively participate in an agile environment, collaborating closely with producers, artists, designers, and other programmers to integrate systems seamlessly.
• Build and Support Tools that Improve Workflows: Identify workflow inefficiencies across disciplines and build tools to automate tasks and streamline pipelines.
• Game Performance Optimization: Conduct performance analysis and profiling to optimize rendering pipelines, animations, and other interactions for overall game performance.
• Resolve Game Issues: Troubleshoot and resolve specific game performance issues, including those related to profiling, memory, CPU, run-time, and load times.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Experience & Track Record: You'll need a Bachelor’s in CS (or equivalent experience), over 8 years in software development, and a proven history of shipping multiple online games from prototype to launch on online PC, console, or mobile.
• Expert Programming Skills: You must be an expert-level in C#, along with strong experience using source control systems like GIT or Perforce.
• Engine & Systems Architecture: Deep proficiency with Unity is required, and multiple game engines are nice to have, plus an expert ability to architect complex gameplay systems (e.g., AI, multiplayer, controls, RPG systems).
• Performance Optimization: You should have proven experience profiling, troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance across all platforms, tackling issues with memory, CPU, and rendering.
• Mobile & UI Development: Experience in mobile development for both Android and iOS is needed, along with familiarity with UI frameworks such as Unity GUI or NGUI.
• Team & Workflow: You must be a strong communicator and problem-solver who thrives in an Agile or Kanban environment, able to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Communication skills: Strong communication skills in French and English.

The typical hiring range listed above is specific to candidates located in Montreal. The salary will be determined based on your knowledge, skills and competencies, and you’ll have room to grow after you join!

If you’re interested in the position but your expectations don’t fully align with the provided range, we still encourage you to apply! Considerations may be made based on your experience level.

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

About Kabam

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.