Senior Engine Programmer

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Game Programmer

Job Summary

Job Description

Keen Software House seeks a Senior Engine Programmer to contribute to the development of VRAGE3, the engine powering their new title, Space Engineers 2. This role involves optimizing the engine, implementing new features and systems, and mentoring junior team members. VRAGE3 is a highly parallelized, data-oriented engine with a next-generation voxel system, GPU-driven pipeline, and ray tracing. The position offers remote work options, with headquarters in Prague. Responsibilities include developing and optimizing the VRAGE3 engine, implementing new features and systems, and mentoring less experienced team members. The ideal candidate will possess strong C# skills and experience with performance profiling.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience
  • Proficient in C#
  • Windows development
  • Performance/memory profiling
  • Develop VRAGE3 engine
Good to have:
  • C++ experience
  • Engine development
  • Test-driven development
  • Advanced math & physics
  • Computer Science degree
Perks:
  • International team
  • Friendly environment
  • Incentive system/bonuses
  • Modern offices in Prague
  • Unlimited home office
  • Relocation package
  • 5 weeks vacation
  • Unlimited sick days
  • Company events

Job Details

We are looking for top talent

We are searching for a highly skilled Senior Engine Programmer. You would be developing state-of-the-art systems for the new generation of the VRAGE3 engine being developed for our new title Space Engineers 2. This new generation of VRAGE has been redesigned from scratch to be highly parallelized, data oriented, featuring a next generation voxel system, GPU driven pipeline and raytracing. You’ll be a part of the VRAGE team, working closely with the Game programmers and Designers to help them achieve the creative vision for our games.

This position is based in Prague, Czech Republic, where our company's headquarters is located. However, you can work remotely with us from anywhere.

Requirements:

  • Skilled and experienced programmer (5+ years)
  • Proficient with Windows development
  • Very good knowledge and experience with C#
  • Ability to apply results from low level performance and memory profiling
  • Intermediate English
  • Responsible, well organized, good time management
  • Friendly, curious, creative
  • Don´t be a C-player

Considered a plus:

  • University degree with a focus on computer science
  • Knowledge of C++
  • Experience developing your own engine
  • Experience in designing and maintaining desktop applications
  • Experience with test driven development
  • Advanced math and physics knowledge
  • Interest in science and space research
  • Avid gamer

Responsibilities:

  • Developing VRAGE3 engine – optimizing, implementing new features or whole systems
  • Mentoring less experienced team members

We offer:

  • International team
  • A friendly environment without a corporate approach
  • Work on already very successful games
  • Incentive system benefits – bonuses
  • Modern and comfortable offices in Prague (Orangeria – https://oranzerie.cz/ ) with coffee, tea, healthy snacks, and much more!
  • Unlimited home office
  • Possibility of (fully) remote cooperation, or a relocation package
  • 5 weeks of vacation
  • Unlimited sick days
  • Company breakfasts and other company events (BBQ, parties, workshops,…)
  • Dedicated time for studying

Curious about your future Team Leader? Meet Daniel Ilha!

Learn more about our in-house engine VRAGE3 and its challenges from our Technical Director Jan Hloušek:

What the selection process will look like:

  1. Collecting all documents and completing the entry form
  2. Screening and evaluating all received documents
  3. Programming task (completed at home)
  4. Task evaluation
  5. Interview with the Team Leader, Technical Director, and HR
  6. Job offer

If you like challenging work, seek autonomy, enjoy having impact and responsibility, and want to work in a friendly environment with colleagues who inspire you, please apply with your CV and link to your GitHub repository and/or excerpt of your latest source code.

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About The Company

Keen Software House is an independent game development studio aiming to create games that are based on real science, real facts, real physics and real emotions. The company is mostly known for its popular titles, Space Engineers (released in October 2013 and sold 4 million copies) and Medieval Engineers (a sandbox game about engineering, construction and the maintenance of architectural works and mechanical equipment using medieval technology). The first titles that the studio developed are Miner Wars 2081 and Miner Wars Arena. In addition to their ongoing development of Space Engineers the studio develops its own in-house game engine, VRAGE, currently in the second version and its core feature is volumetricity of the environment. Space Engineers and Medieval Engineers are the first titles fully utilizing VRAGE 2.0.

Keen Software House has two areas of interest:
- independent game development: Space Engineers, Medieval Engineers, VRAGE engine

OUR MISSION:

We want to create games that are based on real science, real facts, real physics and real emotions. No magic & fantasy allowed.

If we step into the sci-fi area - as we did with Space Engineers and Miner Wars 2081 - we approach it from the hard-sci-fi angle. Every technology and every idea must be explainable using modern-era knowledge with very little extrapolation required.

In Medieval Engineers we hold on to historical accuracy as much as possible while not sacrificing fun, accessibility and intuitiveness.

We want to use our games to promote science and to encourage creativity. We want to revive the interest in space exploration, physics, history and all STEM fields. We want players to learn new stuff while playing our games.

We want to make our fans happy.

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