Senior Gameplay Programmer, Game Prototypes
$140,000–$250,000 year
RemoteCanada
Job Summary
Contribute to a rotating slate of projects spanning many different genres, adapting your engineering approach to fit the genre, audience, and platform at hand. Own multiple complex gameplay features from prototype to polished implementation, producing well-engineered, reliable, and maintainable code. Translate design intent into functional, playable systems and mechanics using Unreal Engine 5 with a combination of C++, Blueprints, Gen AI, and custom tools to validate gameplay hypotheses and find the fun fast. Profile, optimize, and debug both code and content across projects to keep prototypes performant on TV via the cloud streaming platform and other targets. Partner closely with designers, artists, producers, and other engineers to integrate and improve features, ensuring cohesion between design intent and execution. Participate in code reviews and create documentation and functional tests for the features you build.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience prototyping and shipping two or more titles as a Gameplay Programmer/Engineer across varied genres
- Excellent technical knowledge in C++
- Extensive hands-on experience in Unreal Engine 5
- Strong Blueprint implementation skills
- Strong gameplay and design sensibilities
- Ability to develop complex features and systems end-to-end
- Ability to produce reliable, maintainable code under fast iterative timelines
- Exceptional adaptability to change
- Ability to translate complex technical ideas for other disciplines
- Good judgement on the required quality level and technical approach
- Commitment to task planning and timely delivery of tasks
- Willingness to travel for work-related events
- Adherence to a development team schedule oriented toward Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Gen AI
- Experience working with a unique input device (the NGC)
- Comfortable working across diverse game genres, from children's titles to AAA Action Adventures games
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