Programming Position

Game Programmer

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop client/server game play features for an Unreal Engine 3 MMO title.
• Implement game code conforming to performance guidelines and coding standards of the game/studio respectively.
• Report progress on programming tasks to your Lead.
• Communicate clearly any designs or implementation of features on the game to peers and leads.
• Monitor and optimize performance, memory usage, state persistence and network bandwidth characteristics of implemented features.
• Conform to the integration practice for the studio.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Strong C++ skills and PC programming experience.
• Knowledge of common software design patterns.
• Tertiary qualifications in a computing related field, or substantial prior commercial experience working as a game programmer.
• Good communication skills, experience working on a team.
• Familiarity with client/server game development techniques.

Optional Desired Experience and Skills:

• Prior commercial experience in client/server game development.
• Experience working with relational databases.
• Knowledge of Win32 development.
• Prior experience working on an MMOG.
• Knowledge of C#, Lua, Java.
• Knowledge of game physics and collision systems.
• Knowledge of game AI development techniques.
• Unreal Engine 3 programming and/or scripting experience.
• Passion for the web and online games, especially MMOs.