Senior Programmer

Our programming team is currently made up of our Lead Programmer and one Senior. Joining now means you're not a cog in a codebase: your first three months are spent helping establish the game's architecture, building systems robust enough to survive pre-production's changes of direction,  with a genuine authorial stake in how this game gets built.

About you

• Senior-level experience across the full production cycle; prototyping through to shipping,  with at least one shipped title

• Strong Unity/C# craft on 3D games

• Genuinely good 3D maths as this project will lean on it harder than most

• Self-direction: you can take an ambiguous problem, break it down, and drive it without hand-holding

• Cross-discipline fluency and being comfortable explaining technical trade-offs to designers and artists, and listening back

• Experience working with Git

Desirable:

• PC/console shipping experience, including certification and platform optimisation

• Experience with unconventional cameras, perspective or physics-driven gameplay

• Secondary skills; design, art, audio, which help make you a better prototyper

• A habit of writing things down and good documentation

What you'll be doing

• Designing and building core game systems and architecture through pre-production and beyond

• Reading and adapting existing code from our previous titles into the new project

• Prototyping quickly with design and art, then hardening what survives into maintainable, performant production code

• Owning problems end-to-end: analysing, prioritising and executing autonomously, with Nacho as a partner rather than a supervisor

• Bringing a creative voice to the game itself, not just its code

• You will help build a codebase that can be iterated during development and is performant and maintainable after release.

• You will be mentored and supported to learn and develop your skills

• This role is a 12 month fixed-term contract, salaried as a preference, but we are also open to day-rate contractors. 

• For Fixed term hires, most benefits are offered and matched to our permanent team: BUPA private medical, pension, profit share, flexible working, enhanced parental leave, 25 days holiday plus paid sick leave.

• We can hire Hybrid or Remote, with hours that overlap the team's.

• Time together at our London (Oval) studio is encouraged where possible, especially early on, but we're not limiting this search by geography. Our preference is to have some weekly in-studio time, but we will consider strong applicants who are based anywhere in the UK or Europe, with preparedness for travel to the studio regularly.