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Cloud Imperium is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Game Programmer to join the team.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer code that achieves desired gameplay as specified by game designs
  • Assist in designing and creating gameplay tools that facilitates developer workflow and alleviates bottlenecks
  • Share your knowledge of transforming code into fun by instilling those values and skills in other engineers
  • Work with an interdisciplinary agile team of artists, designers, and programmers to design, prototype, and implement new gameplay features
  • Design and implement well-engineered, reliable, maintainable, and bug-free code
  • Develop and test code, fix bugs, and profile and optimize code as directed
  • Follow best practices, development processes, and coding standards
  • Document and peer review technical designs with other software engineers
  • Work with QA, providing information needed to fully test developed code
  • Provide support to internal customers for developed software
  • Keep up to date on state-of-the-art software engineering methods, practices, and technologies
  • Communicate with other team members, internal customers, and when required external customers to determine requirements
  • Work well with other team members in a cooperative, cross-disciplinary team environment
  • Identify technical and developmental risks/obstacles and generate solutions to overcome identified risks
  • Mentor other engineers as needed to increase their capabilities and productivity
  • Provide technical leadership within areas of expertise to the engineering team
  • Design efficient, high quality systems and create technical designs that can be implemented by other engineers
  • Function well with limited supervision

Requirements

  • Passion for video games, science-fiction, and space simulations
  • C / C++ programming skills
  • A minimum of 3 years' game programming experience, with at least one shipped AAA title
  • Mathematics skills, including proficiency with trigonometry and linear algebra
  • Experience in the design and implementation of various game systems, including game object management, gameplay scripting, FX, database management, or online networking
  • Speaks "Designer" fluently
  • Experience with code optimization
  • Comfortable contributing to an established engine
  • Able to work in a collaborative environment with a team of highly skilled programmers
  • Self-motivated and self-directing, knowledgeable about and willing to pitch in on many areas of development
  • High comfort level working within, and analyzing and improving, an established code base
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • International travel may be required as part of the role

Pluses

  • Computer science or related degree.
  • Expertise working within CryEngine/Lumberyard.
  • Experience with multithreaded code.
  • Knowledge of engineering for online games.
  • Experience creating and supporting tools used in game development.
  • Experience with multiplayer architecture.

This position is offered at our Frankfurt Office by Cloud Imperium Games Ltd.

Please submit your application in English