Lead Gameplay Engineer, SplashDamage
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Independently-owned game development studio
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Independently-owned game development studio
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To craft team-based multiplayer games that ignite friendships as much as they do healthy competition and teamwork.
Role
Who you are
- Setting clear technical direction, intent and best practices within your team
- Identifying risks and blockers early and proactively removing them
- Working effectively in open and collaborative environments
- Working closely with project leadership to plan long term road maps and improve development processes
- Seeing the big picture impact of decisions and critically evaluating them
- Write clear, maintainable and scalable code as needed
- Nurturing professional growth within your team with an enthusiastic attitude and a team-first mentality
- Communicating ideas, intent and constraints to both technical and non-technical team members
- Expert knowledge of C++, with relevant professional experience
- Strong understanding of game-development related 3D maths principles
- The leadership skills to lead a gameplay development team
- Professional experience iteratively implementing gameplay features from inception to delivery
- Experience working in all phases of game development, from feature design to planning and establishing roadmaps, implementation, and bug-fixing
- Able to analyse and debug unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand and extend the functionality of an existing module
- Has knowledge and experience driving an agile methodology within a team
- Experience working closely with design teams to elicit requirements and design gameplay systems
- Ability to review and give feedback on teams work in a clear and constructive manner
Desirable
- Professional development experience with real-time networked multiplayer games
- Professional Unreal Engine 4 development experience on PC and/or consoles
- Experience with multi-threaded development
- Experience developing for Xbox Series, PlayStation5, Xbox One and/or PS4
- Experience profiling and optimising code for optimal CPU, memory and bandwidth usage
- Experience in animation programming
- Experience developing procedurally generated environments
What the job involves
- As a Lead Gameplay Programmer, you will consider the skills and talents of your team members and use their experience to identify risk, build roadmaps and become a force-multiplier for your team, mentoring them every step of the way
- As an Unreal Engine focused studio, we're excited to be transitioning our teams to the latest in UE5 technology and we're looking for skilled and passionate developers to help us drive this
Our take
Splash Damage is a game development company best known for its work on Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and the PC version of Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
The company is committed to diversity and inclusion, partnering with D&I companies such as POC In Play, Out Making Games, Industry Gayming, and Queer in Games.
While Splash Damage was acquired by the multimedia company Tencent in 2020, the company has since retained its independence and even started its own acquisition portfolio through the purchase of Bulkhead Interactive. Operating as an independent entity within the Tencent family, its focus going forward is on creating an original sci-fi-based game.
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Company benefits
- Private medical and dental cover for you and your family along with Babylon 24/7 digital GP services. We also offer onsite counseling and an employee assistant program, along with covering eye tests, gym memberships, and more.
- With 8 public holidays and an additional 3-day studio Christmas closure, our staff have a total of 36 days off. We also offer flexible working hours and regular company social events.
- Industry-leading fully paid 30 weeks maternity leave and 10 weeks paternity leave, along with flexitime and life assurance, helps new parents manage their time and put their family first.
- All of our staff have enhanced company pension contributions, meaning that we invest in your future together.
- We offer generous referral bonuses and staff are enrolled in our new bonus scheme.
- We have cycle-to-work and car leasing schemes, a free car park, game and book libraries, complimentary weekly onsight haircuts, and discounts at many local businesses.
Company values
- We put our team first: We put the team ahead of our own immediate needs. We know that in an aligned team we'll always outperform the sum of our parts.
- We trust each other: We trust each other to give candid and constructive feedback and strive to take on new perspectives and ideas.
- We find solutions: We're highly adaptable, tackling problems head-on and course correcting when new challenges arise.
- We decide and deliver: We're empowered within our teams to make decisions and hold each other accountable, with the autonomy to prioritise what needs to be done and when.
- We always learn, always improve: We're dedicated to unlocking our individual and team's potential through a constant focus on learning, self-improvement, and knowledge-sharing.
Company HQ
Bromley, UK
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Leadership
Richard Jolly
(CEO)After graduating from Abertay University, created Splash Damage which they have been a part of ever since.
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