Senior Game Programmer
Job Summary
Job Description
Kabam is seeking a highly experienced Senior Programmer to join their team, focusing on building and maintaining advanced systems and tools for free-to-play games. The role involves architecting gameplay systems, creating and improving tools for designers and artists, participating in development scheduling, building UI elements, and optimizing game performance. Responsibilities include writing clean code, conducting reviews, collaborating with cross-functional teams in an agile environment, and resolving game issues. The ideal candidate will have a proven history of shipping multiple online games and expertise in C#, Git/Perforce, Unity, and performance optimization. Strong communication skills in French and English are also required.
Must have:
- Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent experience
- 8+ years in software development
- Shipped multiple online games
- Expert-level C# skills
- Strong GIT or Perforce experience
- Deep proficiency with Unity
- Proven game performance optimization experience
- Experience in mobile development (Android/iOS)
- Familiarity with UI frameworks (Unity GUI/NGUI)
- Strong communication skills in French and English
- Agile or Kanban environment experience
Good to have:
- Experience with multiple game engines
Perks:
- Extended health coverage (health, dental, life, disability, paramedical)
- DEIB benefits (gender-affirming care, fertility care)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- RRSP Matching
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid time off for volunteering
- Sick leave
- Holiday closures
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Telus Virtual Health
- Learning and growth support (lunch & learns, education stipend)
- Pay transparency
- Cool office spaces
- Giving back initiatives ('Agents of Change')
- Hybrid work environment
14 skills required
Job Details
At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…
We're looking for a highly experienced and skilled Senior Programmer to join our team. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your deep knowledge to build and maintain advanced systems and tools, optimizing workflows and ensuring high performance for our game teams. You'll lead large-scale projects, tackle complex issues, and play a key role in mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Architect and Maintain Gameplay Systems: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable gameplay systems by writing clean code, conducting reviews, and collaborating with designers.
- Create New and Maintain Existing Tools for Designers and Artists: Develop, integrate, and improve custom tools and editors to empower designers and artists and enhance their content creation workflows.
- Participate in Development Scheduling: Collaborate with producers and project managers to estimate tasks, create development schedules, and monitor progress to ensure milestones are met.
- Build Screens, Widgets, and Other UI Elements: Architect and implement extensible, responsive UI elements like screens and widgets in close collaboration with the design team to realize their vision.
- Review Feature Designs and Provide Input on Costs and Possible Alternatives: Review feature designs and wireframes to provide technical feedback on feasibility, costs, and potential implementation alternatives.
- Work Closely in a Highly Collaborative and Agile Environment: Actively participate in an agile environment, collaborating closely with producers, artists, designers, and other programmers to integrate systems seamlessly.
- Build and Support Tools that Improve Workflows: Identify workflow inefficiencies across disciplines and build tools to automate tasks and streamline pipelines.
- Game Performance Optimization: Conduct performance analysis and profiling to optimize rendering pipelines, animations, and other interactions for overall game performance.
- Resolve Game Issues: Troubleshoot and resolve specific game performance issues, including those related to profiling, memory, CPU, run-time, and load times.
To be successful in this role, your background includes:
- Experience & Track Record: You'll need a Bachelor’s in CS (or equivalent experience), over 8 years in software development, and a proven history of shipping multiple online games from prototype to launch on online PC, console, or mobile.
- Expert Programming Skills: You must be an expert-level in C#, along with strong experience using source control systems like GIT or Perforce.
- Engine & Systems Architecture: Deep proficiency with Unity is required, and multiple game engines is nice to have, plus an expert ability to architect complex gameplay systems (e.g., AI, multiplayer, controls, RPG systems).
- Performance Optimization: You should have proven experience profiling, troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance across all platforms, tackling issues with memory, CPU, and rendering.
- Mobile & UI Development: Experience in mobile development for both Android and iOS is needed, along with familiarity with UI frameworks such as Unity GUI or NGUI.
- Team & Workflow: You must be a strong communicator and problem-solver who thrives in an Agile or Kanban environment, able to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
- Communication Skills: Strong communication skills in French and English.
Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:
- Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
- DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
- RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
- Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
- Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
- Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
- Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
- Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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