Experienced Programmer

As an Experienced Programmer you will have a desire to broaden your technical skills and work with our teams to develop your programming expertise even further.

Third Kind Games - a Virtuos Studio, is a world-class co-development games studio. Third Kind Games was founded in 2016 by a team of nine former Activision veterans and became a Virtuos Studio in 2024.

Our studio is based in Royal Leamington Spa and we also have remote studios in Poland and Spain. Our three studios have been built on the same original spirit and values since our beginning.

We work with some of the biggest names in the games industry such as Blizzard, Amazon, Microsoft and Mythical Games. We’re proud of our track record working on critically acclaimed games and franchises. We are also setting new benchmarks for creativity in the games industry, driving technical expertise in programming alongside creative innovation.

What is it like to be a Third Kinder?

We are a diverse team of people. We are collaborative, open-minded creatives who embrace ideas and knowledge from everyone in our team, with the aim of developing and inspiring ourselves, our projects and our games.

Work life balance and flexibility are very important to us and our team. At TKG we offer a place where our team can be their most creative, imaginative and confident selves. We want all of our team to feel valued, appreciated, and free to be who they are at work. TKG recently received a GOLD Award in Mind Charity’s Workplace Wellbeing Index, recognising our dedication to our team’s mental health and wellbeing.

Role Overview

You enjoy:

• Working with a highly experienced team on all areas of the game development.
• Using your passion for gaming, you will design, plan and develop high quality code systems, working closely with the game designers and other disciplines to realise their visions.
• Good communication skills with the ability to contribute to Scrum meetings and create innovative solutions for our games.

What we are looking for from a Third Kinder

You would:

• Enjoy working with a lot of different technologies and have a keen desire to learn new ones.
• Be motivated by creative freedom, ground-breaking initiatives and unknown territory.
• Prefer a creative, open-thinking environment, over one managed through specs and have a passion for working on a wide variety of tasks.
• Be able to work alone and also as part of a team, whilst knowing when to ask for advice from your colleagues.

Skills you need

• 3+ years' gaming industry experience in C++ or C#.
• Proven debugging and critical thinking skills.

Skills it would be great to have

Experience with:

• C# and Unity.
• Other engines such as Lumberyard and Unreal.
• JavaScript.
• Cloud services such as PlayFab and GameSparks.
• Modern console platform experience.