Technical Designer - CA Sofia

2 Months ago • All levels • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Creative Assembly seeks an experienced Technical Designer for their Total War franchise in Sofia, Bulgaria. Responsibilities include supporting programmers and designers in creating features and tools, maintaining scripting codebases, fixing bugs, designing and prototyping game systems, and building custom tools. The role involves all development stages, collaboration with various teams (artists, programmers, designers), and contributing to creative discussions. Successful candidates will bridge communication between disciplines, maintain script architectures, collect design requirements, build development pipelines, and advise on technical limitations. Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential.
Must have:
  • Familiar with programming principles
  • Experience with scripting languages
  • Strong game design fundamentals
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience with source control
Good to have:
  • Experience with Lua, C#, or C++
  • Previous Technical Design role in game development
  • Experience working on live products
Perks:
  • Additional medical and dental insurance
  • Additional holiday allowance
  • Annual discretionary studio bonus
  • Defined career development pathways
  • Wellbeing support
  • Free games and merchandise
  • Free breakfast
  • Office massages
  • Studio parties

Job Details

Description

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and ambitious Technical Designer to join us and work on exciting new projects in our Total war franchise. This role is based at our studio in Sofia, Bulgaria. 
We are looking for a talented Technical Designer to join our team and help us with the creative vision and robust game systems in Total War. You will be working on new projects with your highly skilled designers, programmers and more in the mature and experienced Total War team. You will have the opportunity for personal and professional development alongside some of the best creatives in the industry with a huge impact on the game experience and quality of the games. 
 
This role is based in Sofia, Bulgaria and would require successful candidates to be able to relocate to the country of employment.
 
Key Responsibilities     
  
As a Technical Designer you will be supporting the programmers and designers in creating features and tools for our award-winning games. You will be involved in a wide variety of tasks, such as creating and maintaining scripting codebases, fixing code bugs, designing and prototyping complex new game systems, and creating custom tools. Alongside your technical contributions, you'll have a voice in creative discussions, to contribute to the overall success of our projects.    
  
On a day-to-day basis, you will:
  • Be involved at all stages of the development process, from concepting to production.   
  • Be in consistent communication with the Technical Design team as a whole to co-ordinate and share technology, tools, and expertise including coaching the use of new features   
  • Bridging communication between disciplines, projects, and games teams   
  • Help update and support already released games; making good use of your design and technical skills combined   
  • Create and maintain robust script architectures   
  • Collecting design requirements from the design team and translating these into long-term sustainable feature and technology designs   
  • Building tools and pipelines to streamline content development & implementation   
  • Inform and advising on technical limitations and their impacts on development, and providing alternatives and fallbacks   
  • Constantly monitoring design implementation processes and searching for opportunities to improve or streamline   
  • Pushing the boundaries of existing technology to provide further value to players   
  • Strong communication skills will work to your advantage in this role, as you'll be proactively communicating demands and requirements of new feature development with team members and groups from almost every other discipline (artists, programmers, designers, etc.) in the course of your work. Naturally this will also take advantage of your teamwork skills, working with a variety of people to problem solve in a helpful and productive way.  
      
Knowledge, Skill and Experience    
Essential     
  • Familiar with programming and programming principles   
  • Experience with one or multiple programming or scripting languages   
  • Strong knowledge of game design fundamentals   
  • Excellent problem-solving skills   
  • Affinity for communication, both written and verbal   
  • Comfortable working closely with other disciplines, especially programmers   
  • Comfortable working in, and rapidly becoming familiar with, unfamiliar systems   
  • Experience with source control   
  • A strong desire to seek out and learn new skills and knowledge   
Desirable    
  • Experience working on live products   
  • Previous Technical Design role in game development environment  
  • Experience with Lua, C#, or C++
About Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.
 
We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.
 
We are located in Horsham, UK in Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.

We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:

  • Additional medical and dental health insurance for you, your partner and kids, life insurance, and free health care screening
  • Additional holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, as all Bulgarian Bank holidays
  • Annual discretionary studio bonus
  • Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including; SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
  • Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme
  • Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
  • Free breakfast every day - toast, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, soft drinks and more in our fully stocked kitchen
  • Office massages
  • Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer and Christmas parties, Children’s day party, wrap parties for game releases
  • Our studio sites have disabled access.
We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: SEGA Europe Limited and our studios do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions from unauthorised third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, SEGA Europe is not liable for any fees, compensation or any other costs associated with the introduction of a candidate or recruitment services unless and until an agreement has been duly executed. Further details can be found here.

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Creative Assembly is one of Europe's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK, Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.

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