Senior Gameplay Programmer - Racing Games

Job Title Senior Gameplay Programmer - Racing Games
Job Category Programming
Skills Required Gameplay
Location North East
Job Description Senior Gameplay Programmer-Racing Games
Job Reference: 15983
Short Skills:
Start Date/Length: Immediate/ Permanent
Salary: Attractive
Location: North East
Country: UK
Description:

This leading studio based in the UK is seeking a talented Senior Gameplay Programmer to join their collaborative multidiscipline environment. This role will focus on implementing gameplay features that meet the requirements of the project’s Lead Designer and Lead Programmer.

Requirements:
• Passionate about playing and making games.
• Good understanding of gameplay technology, and can use their technical knowledge in various areas such as mathematics, physics, animation, artificial intelligence to implement gameplay features, and believable behaviors.
• Ability to work in an iterative environment with game designers to quickly prototype gameplay features.
• Excellent C/C++ programming skills, with good knowledge of object oriented development. • Experience with commonly used development tools such as Visual Studio and perforce.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject or equivalent industry experience.
• 3 years of commercial software development experience with significant involvement in 1 published game.
• Knowledge of common algorithms, data structures and patterns, and the ability to apply them to problems while keeping constraints and performance in mind.
• Able to analyse unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand and extend the functionality of an existing module.
• Has knowledge of different software development methods such as Test Driven Development, Unit Testing, Agile etc

Responsibilities:
• Implement practical and timely solutions that meet the game design and technical requirements.
• Implement code that is modular, self-contained, and defensive and observes the technical constraints on the system.
• Work as a key part of an agile development team, taking responsibility for organising and planning their own work.
• Ensure coding standards are followed, and help to enforce good programming practices within the engineering team.
• Maintain technical documentation for the engineering team as well as other disciplines.
• Optimise code and data for memory usage and performance as required. • Write debugging tools for programmers, level designers and artists.

Please contact David Delve on 0208 944 7777 or david.delve@interactiveselection.com if you are interested in this position. Please forward your CV in a Word format. View Many More Interactive Selection Jobs  
Salary Attractive
Date posted 30/04/2013
Recruiter This job is advertised on behalf of Interactive Selection using their internal reference 15983.
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