Gameplay Programmer, nDreams
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract - Elevation Team
VR Game Developer and Publisher
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VR Game Developer and Publisher
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To deliver boundary-pushing immersion and presence like nothing you have experienced before.
Role
Who you are
- Two or more years of professional game programming experience, with a shipped title on a current-generation console, PC or VR headset
- Unreal 4 or 5
- Deep knowledge of C++ including high-performance programming
- Demonstrable experience at owning and delivering game features or systems
- Strong communication skills with a focus on positive cross discipline teamwork
- Proven, demonstrable knowledge of game development processes, real-time implementation, optimization, and cross platform development
- Experience in rapid prototyping and creative problem solving
- A committed team player, recognizing the importance and value of people within a technology environment
- Passionate about creating award winning VR titles
Desirable
- Experience of VR game development
- Confidence in communicating technical complexities and risks clearly and concisely, to non-technical staff
- Strong competitor analysis – the ability to critique and deconstruct competitor video games
- A willingness to ‘muck in’ at any level to get the job done
- Comfortable working in an Agile environment and responsive to change in the face of uncertainty
- Approachable and light-hearted, with a good sense of fun and a positive mental attitude
What the job involves
- Elevation will re-establish the boundaries of VR. We’re looking for a talented Gameplay Programmer to help us explore, create, and deliver world leading innovation in software and VR hardware
- You will play a critical role in developing innovative gameplay systems essential to our gameplay experiences within Virtual Reality
- As Gameplay Programmer, you will be responsible for prototyping and collaborating with a diverse team of engineers and developers, capable of creating genre leading titles. Help us to drive the discovery, implementation and refinement of intuitive and inspirational VR games
- 12-month Fixed Term Contract
- Collaboratively discover, design & build the fun within a cross-discipline team
- Grow the core gameplay systems into production-ready code, supporting other disciplines in creating robust and performant game content
- Learn, innovate, and evangelize VR mechanics and conventions, and help drive industry and VR platform innovation
- Work within an agile sprint-based ‘fail-faster succeed-sooner' methodology when discovering and exploring gameplay content
- Break down and estimate timescales for your tasks
- Work with your peers to ensure our code is clean, organised, documented and easy to maintain
- Be a positive behavioral and mental role model for the team and studio
Our take
Virtual reality is fundamentally changing the way we work, the entertainment we consume, and more. nDreams is at the forefront of the charge, leading the pack when it comes to the world of virtual reality gaming.
The gaming studios set out to change the way we game, with immersive adventures - both original and working with the IP of other gaming and film studios. One of its most recent games, Phantom: Covert Ops, has won multiple awards; and partnerships with Sony for a Ghostbusters VR game, as well as with Ubisoft for a Far Cry VR game (set in the world of Far Cry 3) speak to the calibre of content they produce.
nDreams looks set to maintain its dominance in the VR space, tipped as the company with the most games in development for PSVR 2. Swedish game developer Aonic acquired nDreams for $110 million, which will bolster both companies' positions in the exciting and rapidly growing VR gaming market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2022
$35m
LATE VC
Jul 2017
$3.6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $47.3m
Company benefits
- Private healthcare
- Enhanced family policies
- Wellbeing and mental health support
- Opportunities to work abroad
- Two Duvet Days a year and birthdays off
- Death in service cover
- Flexible working
- Funded personal development opportunities
- And much more
Company HQ
Farnborough, UK
Leadership
Patrick O'Luanaigh
(Chief Executive Officer)Former Director of Tiga, Non-Exec Chairman of VRFocus, Advisory Group Executive at BAFTA VR, and Non-Exec Director of Atom Universe and Velox XR (where they still work).
Tamsin O'Luanaigh
(Chief People Officer)Tamsin oversees Company Secretarial; HR, Recruitment, L&D and Internal Comms - all areas which are constantly evolving as the business continues to grow in an emerging tech industry.
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