Technical Lead, SplashDamage
4 days a week in office (Bromley, UK)
Independently-owned game development studio
Job no longer available
Independently-owned game development studio
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
4 days a week in office (Bromley, UK)
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
- Professional experience overseeing a large engineering team throughout the full game development cycle on a shipped title
- Professional experience overseeing a team of engineers
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Experience creating and maintaining roadmaps and technical plans
- Experienced and proficient in C++
- Professional Unreal Engine 4/5 development experience on PC and/or consoles
- Professional development experience with real-time networked multiplayer games
- Ability to write clear, maintainable, portable code
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with waterfall and/or agile production methodologies
Desirable
- Experience with resource planning and recruitment
- Experience developing Game-as-a-Service games
What the job involves
- As a Technical Lead, you will be accountable for all of engineering in your project, starting with Project: ASTRID
- You will lead the engineering teams, overseeing the day to day development of the game while liaising with production as well as the studio technical leadership to establish and maintain technical direction
- As the main technical point of contact for the project and in charge of all technical aspects of the game, you will work within the Core Leadership team of the project, leverage your engineering discipline leads, liaise with game design, level design, art and production teams, and act as the main technical point of contact for the project
- Leading engineering teams
- Setting clear technical direction, intent, and best practices within your team
- Co-ordinating technical planning and task scheduling with production
- Working with the studio technical leadership to establish and maintain technical direction
- Identifying risks and blockers early and proactively removing them
- Working effectively in open and collaborative environments
- Seeing the big picture impact of decisions and critically evaluating them
- 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
Salary benchmarks
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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 HQ
Bromley, UK
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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