Senior Gameplay Programmer

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Gameplay Programmer

Department: Programming

Location: Farnham

Working Model: Hybrid

About us

We are a creative and fun development studio, specialising in creating amazing deep simulation games that are rooted in our own brand of silly humour whilst remaining accessible to everyone. We are a young, vibrant studio, which is home to employees with experience working in some of the UK’s greatest creative studios – Bullfrog, Mucky Foot and Lionhead, having collectively worked on (among others) Theme Hospital, Black & White; Startopia; Fable; and The Movies. We pride ourselves on having a friendly and inclusive culture that aims to deliver a good work life balance for all of our employees. As part of the SEGA family, we are passionate about entertaining the world with creative, innovative experiences, while being part of a vibrant gaming community, and with the success of our Hospital and Campus under our belt, we are pushing forward with our next adventures to make our dream become a reality. Life at our company is exactly as we believe it should be: fun, flexible, and creative! We believe that delivering the best games relies on having the best people, so we are constantly investing in our people through our benefits package, flexible working, and our community-focused, people-centric culture. Our industry-leading compensation and benefits include competitive salary and bonus schemes, private medical insurance, private dental insurance, health screening, electric car scheme, home technology scheme, Microsoft package discounts, and much more!

Why You:

You have extensive experience as a Gameplay programmer and a passion for game development. You are a versatile, self-starter with a strong background in Unity and C#. You excel in various areas, including game logic and AI. While over 5 years of experience is preferred, we would accept exceptional talented applications with less experience, too. You are creative and understand how complex systems work together to produce interesting emergent behavior. Your ability to work independently and your enthusiasm for innovative gameplay solutions make you a valuable addition to our team.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with art and design to take features through design, implementation and testing.
• Creating elegant, maintainable and robust code in Unity and C#.
• Helping improve engineering quality and best practices
• Planning your own work as part of an agile team.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Working knowledge of Unity and C#.
• 5 years’ game industry experience (or less if you’re exceptional!).
• Strong programming skills: source control, code architecture, debugging, testing, and performance optimization.
• Essential soft skills: problem-solving, teamwork, communication, organization, time management, self-motivation, and a desire to learn.
• A passion for games!

Not essential, but it helps if you have:

• Experience and interest in AI.
• Deep experience with performance optimisation.
• Experience with console development.
• History of shipped high quality games.
• 3D graphics and rendering knowledge.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want people of all backgrounds to see themselves represented and included in our work, so we actively seek to diversify our team and bring more voices to the table. All applicants are welcome!

As an employer we aim to create a diverse and inclusive environment that actively encourages the development and advancement of underrepresented groups, whilst promoting diversity of thought and experience. We want our employees to feel happy, accepted and valued within the workplace, encouraging our employees to bring their true selves to work. We welcome people regardless of age, race, ethnicity, disability, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, neurotype or socioeconomic background.