Senior Unreal Engine Programmer [Contract][UK]

This opening is for a rolling Contract position starting at 3-months. Must be based in the UK.

Experience

Essential 

• 5+ years of professional experience working in games development in Unreal Engine.
• Fluent in C++ with expert knowledge of the Unreal Engine API.
• Extensive experience in Unreal Engine 4.
• Experience developing on Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms.
• Extensive experience working within a team.
• Experience meeting and creating project deadlines and targets regarding tasks and deliverables.
• Experience using task management software.
• Experience communicating project requirements both verbally and through written documentation. 
• Experience providing clear feedback and mentorship to a team of programmers.

Desirable

• Expert knowledge of Git, or another similar source code management system.
  
• Experience with cross-platform development for PC/Mobile/Console.
• Experience managing and participating in code reviews.
• Experience handling merging and conflicts of multiple units of work.
• Experience working with online services.
• Experience in C# and Unity games development.

Skills and Abilities

• Expert software engineering and software architecture principles. 
• Expert debugging skills with extensive experience working in an existing codebase.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage and prioritise your own and other’s workloads efficiently to meet deadlines.
• Highly motivated and productive, a self-starter capable of motivating others.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with fluency in English.
• Strong skills in close teamwork within both local and global environments.
• A creative and logical approach to problem-solving with an end-user focus.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• A clear, concise and accurate communicator in all formats.
• Adapts well to new processes and pipelines.

Duties and Tasks

• Working with a team to deliver projects to Hyper Luminal standards.
• Working in the Unreal Engine to deliver projects on console platforms.
• Communicating and working within the team to identify the most efficient way of completing tasks.
• Creating code to meet project and platform requirements.
• Establishing pipelines and processes to continually improve the teams’ effectiveness.
• Writing performant code within the requirements of the target system.
• Leading standups and team meetings for communication of project goals.
• Organising and executing the burndown of the team’s code tasks, using Jira and working with the studio producer to meet project deadlines.

Life as a Luminary

At Hyper Luminal, creative collaboration is the key to success. Team members are given a range of responsibilities within a flat hierarchical structure, to enable an entirely team-driven games development process. Your role at Hyper Luminal is to ensure our games and software utilise a 'best in class' codebase, helping the studio to continually raise its quality bar and reach beyond what is generally expected of a smaller development team. 

We look forward to welcoming you into the Hyper Luminal Team!