Looking to spread your wings?
Join our Google-owned, Austin-based game studio and help us make absurd and highly polished VR for Everyone!
We offer an outstanding fully remote working environment focused on collaboration and personal growth, with a positive work/life balance and excellent benefits.
Owls in this remote position prototype, develop, and implement game features and tools, from concept to launch, with guidance from task owners
Responsibilities:
- Create playable prototypes from scratch, independently (create your own passable models, animations, effects, etc. in addition to programming)
- Develop and test code, fix bugs, and profile; optimize code as directed
- Quickly and effectively iterate on systems, features, and interactions throughout the course of development at many different levels of quality (from quick and dirty prototypes to fully polished and shippable)
- Take ownership of tasks and authored systems, ensuring owned systems can be maintained and providing technical and design leadership for owned tasks
- Collaborate with Project Leads to ensure tasking is meeting milestones, including providing estimates, updates on progress, and notice of potential setbacks
- Seek and integrate feedback from a variety of stakeholders - including playtests
- Assist other engineers with their features in a programming capacity or otherwise
- Follow best practices, development processes, and coding standards
Requirements
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Understanding of gamefeel, affordances, and feedback
- Ability to quickly turn ideas into reality, at minimum level of effort to evaluate them
- Ability to see dependencies, cascading affordances, and systems-level ramifications of features
- Ability to integrate feedback, throw ideas away, and be flexible with multiple iterations
Required Education and Experience:
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Unity programming experience
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Developing games solo or near-solo
- History of experimentation with different tech / tools
- Rapid prototyping environment experience
- 3 years Unity programming experience with multiple shipped projects
- Appreciation of puns (or at least the ability to groan at them)
Physical Requirements:
- Owls must be able to use virtual reality headsets but are not expected to own one.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a remote full-time, 40-hours per week position. Core hours of work are Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time.
Travel:
For Owls working outside of the Austin, TX area, travel to Austin may be required 4 to 6 times per year. Additionally, we typically encourage owls to attend a conference annually for personal growth and development.
For Everyone:
We care about creating “VR for Everyone” - and that includes creating a welcoming workplace for everyone.
Owlchemy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Other Skills and Responsibilities:
This job description doesn’t cover or contain a comprehensive listing of everything you might do at Owlchemy. As a growing team of wildly talented individuals, we encourage career growth, exploration, and the wearing of many hats. As such, roles and responsibilities are collaborative and may change or evolve over time based on our needs and your particular skill set.
Benefits
- 15 days of vacation to start
- Unlimited sick days
- School loan repayment assistance
- New parent benefits
- Health Care
- Retirement Plan
- Relocation Assistance (should you want to move to Austin, TX!)
