Engine Programmer

Job Title Engine Programmer
Job Category Programming
Skills Required Programming
Location UK, South
Job Description To apply:

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced/senior Engine Programmer to work on new technology, supporting multiple AAA titles currently in development for all current and next-generation platforms. The ideal applicant will have at least 3 years’ experience working in the console games industry using C/C++, preferably in technical programming within a cross-platform engine. A strong academic background is also preferred with a 1st class or 2:1 degree in Computer Science, Maths, Physics or other science-related subject, but not essential if you have appropriate experience.

Skills:
- Excellent C/C++ skills with the ability to write clear maintainable code
- Strong debugging, profiling and optimising
- Ability to work with a large existing codebase, learn new systems/concepts and implement them quickly and efficiently
- Good communication and teamworking with game developers from all disciplines
- Excellent initiative, self-motivation, organisational and problem solving skills, with the ability to accept and follow direction
- A genuine interest in playing games
- Knowledge and interest in any specific areas of engine code (eg. graphics, tools, networking, AI, physics, maths, multi-threading, user-interfaces, third-party APIs) would be an advantage, as would any coding experience in other languages (eg. Perl, PHP, mySQL, C#)

To apply please send CV to prog@datascope.co.uk or tel Andrea, Ben, Kirsty on 020 7580 6018 for a confidential chat (once we have your cv). We value close, personal relationships with our candidates and applications by this method tend to be more successful.

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Salary £High
Date posted 07/03/2013
Recruiter This job is advertised on behalf of Datascope using their internal reference 38703.
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