Full-Time Lead Gameplay Programmer

Main Goal: Manage the Gameplay Programming team to deliver a fun and engaging player experience.

Collaboration: Production, QA, PCFF, All Programmers, Recruitment, HR, All Dev Teams

Responsibilities:

• Assign, delegate, and support team members, monitoring progress.
• Provide constructive feedback and clear communication for continuous improvement.
• Evaluate direct reports during performance reviews, providing career development insights.
• Foster an engaging team atmosphere and healthy work-life balance.
• Utilize data like pulse checks and satisfaction scores.
• Collaborate and communicate with leads, directors, departments, and stakeholders.
• Follow director's vision and contribute to it with data and insights.
• Complete tasks and features autonomously and on time.
• Work with principals and project architects to implement high-quality code.
• Participate in code reviews for knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of best practices and technical solutions.

Gameplay Duties:

• Plan development and assign tasks to the programming team.
• Oversee gameplay features from design to implementation.
• Collaborate with designers to ensure engaging player experiences.
• Establish best practices for scripting and feature implementations.
• Develop and maintain systems architecture.
• Test, debug, profile, and optimize implementations.
• Supervise team documentation.

Must Have:

• Strong mentoring and leadership skills.
• Excellent C++ programming skills.
• Proficient with source control and project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Git, etc.).
• Experience with multiple game engines.
• Keen sense of fun gameplay systems.
• Ability to work with developers from all disciplines.
• Strong 3D math knowledge and familiarity with AI, physics, and animation.
• Experience with profiling, optimizations, and console development (e.g., PS5).
• Ability to write solid, reliable, and efficient code.

Experience:

• 8+ years in console/PC games, including leadership experience.
• Involved in the production cycle of at least 2 titles.

Nice To Have:

• Experience with C# and Python.
• Experience with multiplayer games.

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