Senior Rendering Engineer

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Rendering

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Rendering Engineer at Glowmade, you will play a crucial role in developing their newly announced game, King of Meat. Working closely with the Technical Director and Art Director, you will be responsible for creating stunning visuals, optimizing performance, and implementing shaders within their in-house engine. This role requires proficiency in C++, a deep understanding of real-time graphics, and a creative approach to problem-solving. You will contribute to key graphics and pipeline features, ensuring the game meets its visual targets. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience as a Rendering Engineer and possess strong technical skills, coupled with an artistic eye. Glowmade emphasizes efficient workflows, with build times under 4 minutes for debugging and under 5 seconds for single-file changes. The company promotes a collaborative and supportive work environment with a focus on work-life balance and an anti-crunch policy.
Must have:
  • 5+ years Rendering Engineer experience
  • Deep understanding of real-time graphics
  • Performance tuning and optimization expertise
  • Strong C++ skills (data-oriented)
  • Creative problem-solving abilities
Good to have:
  • Artistic eye
  • Cross-platform development experience
  • Shipped a game as part of a team
Perks:
  • Private Medical Cover
  • Weekly PT Sessions
  • Generous Holiday Allowance
  • Extra Holiday Accrual
  • Wellbeing Days
  • Charity Days
  • Flexible Working
  • Matched Pension Contributions
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Matched Charitable Giving
  • Bike to Work Scheme
  • Game Launch & Signing Bonuses
  • Personal Development Budget
  • Referral Bonus
  • Company Events

Job Details

Description

Hello, we’re Glowmade! We’re an exciting independent company and the goal of our games is to unlock people's imagination and help them express themselves in wonderful, fun ways.

This is an opportunity to play a crucial role in our small but efficient code team working on our recently announced title, King of Meat!

Reporting to Jonny Hopper (Co-Founder, Technical Director), you’ll be working closely with him and Adam Sibbick (Art Director) to make our game beautiful. We need shaders! We need performance! We need the box of clever tricks hidden inside your wizard coat. And we need it all in our home-grown close-to-the-metal engine.

Coding workflow we use C++ for the majority of our dev work, but it is often more data-oriented than object-orientated. No complex inheritance hierarchies, template metaprogramming or bleeding edge features that add compile time and reduce readability. We'll still use any feature that makes dev easier, but not at the cost of expensive code maintenance or excessive compilation time.

We use external libraries where appropriate, but where there isn’t one available, for reasons of speed, robustness or feature set, we will roll our own. This lets us concentrate on the features and toolsets our asset creators genuinely need, keeping development as friction free as we can make it:

  • The entire codebase builds for debug in under 4 minutes and a single code file change will rebuild in under 5 seconds.
  • Rebuilding assets, including all shaders, takes around 25 minutes and it's a rare occasion that rebuilding from scratch is required.
  • Hot reloading means you only occasionally have to restart the game when game assets or data are updated.

Don't believe this is possible... Our Senior Tools Programmer Kev said on his first day "Gosh. That was such a relief after years of bloody Unreal. 20 minutes and everything's built and the game is running. I love it!"

These are all times we’d like to lower and “rare occasions” we’d love to turn into “nevers”. Maybe you can help!

Requirements

From day one we would like you to...

  • Think creatively about how to push the game’s visual bar and blow our minds.
  • Enthusiastically jump into our existing codebase and take ownership over key graphics and pipeline features
  • Work closely with Adam, our Art Director, to deliver on the game’s visual direction

In six months you will be...

  • Pivotal to the success of the game, having specced and delivered key visual and pipeline technology
  • A central, supportive member of our small team

The ideal candidate would…

  • Have 5 + years' experience as a Rendering Engineer
  • Have a deep love of real time graphics
  • Know lots about performance tuning and optimisation
  • Come armed with a strong technical background, where your intuition to the ‘what’ is backed up by the ‘why’.
  • Show willingness to do all the things, in order to Get Them Done.
  • Be at C++ Level: Brilliant, but not so Brilliant you use template metaprogramming, traits and std::range all the time.

Advantageous qualities

  • An artistic eye married with an ability to express that in code
  • Shipped a game as part of a team
  • Experience delivering a cross-platform project
  • Not super-fussed about Object Oriented design

Benefits

Benefits

- Private Medical Cover

- Weekly PT Sessions

- You get 20 days base PLUS we shut the studio from Christmas eve to New Year's bank holiday inclusive (instead of asking you to take it out of your allowance)

- Accrue extra holiday days per year of employment: 1 additional day of holiday on the 1 Jan following your first full year of work then 1 further day of holiday every 2 years

- 3x Wellbeing Days" per year: Emergency "can't face work today" days. It's like a duvet day except you don't have to stay in bed - it's for you to do whatever feeds your soul

- 3x Charity Days": Extra days to volunteer for social or community work

- Flexible working around our core hours of 10-4.30

- Matched pension contributions (We always give 5%)

- Generous parental leave (Please see handbook for full details)

- Matched charitable giving (you can do a pre-tax donation to a charity and we match it)

- Bike to work scheme (Free bike, basically)

- Game launch and game signing bonuses

- £250 annual "personal development" budget, you can spend this on self improvement in

some way (doesn't even have to be work related)

- £1000 referral bonus: If you refer someone to us who we hire, you get £1000

- PASTRY WEDNESDAY and other delicious food based events

- We throw a good party!

A few more bits...

This role is a full time position with an opportunity for you to make a significant contribution not only to the game but to our team and the company. Everyone at Glowmade has a voice, and it’s important to us that you feel empowered and are given the time and space to use it.

Everyone has something to teach and a willingness to learn, but we understand that even the best people slip up and our focus is on improving our processes by openly talking about our mistakes. We respect people's personal time and have an anti-crunch policy. So long as you don't check in untested code on the Friday evening of milestone week, we won't expect you to work outside your normal hours. However, if you do have time to spare, we have frequent after work activities, including Magic The Gathering, poker, RPGs, miniature painting, karaoke and the ever present pub.



We’re based in Guildford, UK, and are interested in both onsite and remote candidates. We offer competitive wages and are an actively equal opportunities employer. If all of the above sounds exciting and you think you can fill this pivotal role, please get in touch.

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