About Us
Psyonix is a video game developer best known for Rocket League, the award-winning game that combines soccer, driving, and highly competitive gameplay. As part of the Epic Games family, we are an industry-leading game studio rooted in a crunch-free philosophy that emphasizes an amazing employee experience, located in the heart of San Diego. For nearly 20 years, we have been a driving force behind some of the most successful games in the industry, including Gears of War, Mass Effect 3, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Bulletstorm, Unreal Tournament III and Unreal Tournament 2004.
What makes us Epic?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
What You'll Do
We are looking for a Gameplay Programmer to implement and maintain gameplay systems in Rocket League and future projects.
In This Role You Will
- Design and create technical specifications for major gameplay features and systems
- Work closely with fellow programmers, artists, and designers to create and iterate on game features
- Use strong critical thinking to problem solve and debug programs
- Contribute unique, personal ideas toward all aspects of the game’s production and development
- Optimize and maintain existing game systems
- Ensure quality using modern development techniques such as test automation and continuous integration
What We're Looking For
- 3 years of professional game development experience
- Experience as primary architect of at least one core gameplay system
- Strong skills in C++ and experience with scripting languages
- Experience working on a live service or online multiplayer game
- Strong mathematical skills
- Experience working with any of the current generation of consoles
- Must be a strong collaborator willing to accept and respond to critical feedback
- Self-motivated, strong work ethic, and able to work independently
- Passionate about personal development and takes advantage of opportunities to continuously improve
- You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.
Nice To Have Skills
- Unreal Engine
- Visual Studio
- Perforce
Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k.
All Epic employees enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge - and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love we have for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!
Like what you hear? Come be part of something Epic!
