Puny Astronaut is looking for a talented Game Programmer to join our team in Dundee!

This is an excellent opportunity for a Game Programmer looking for a central role in an aspiring and creative development studio. You will have the chance to make a significant impact on our debut title, Skye, and all other projects you work on.

You will be working with a creative and driven team in a highly encouraging and supportive environment.

Responsibilities

Work closely with the design team and code lead to shape core features and systems.
Adapt and expand upon studio pipeline and coding standards to create spectacular and immersive games and experiences.
Constantly take performance into account so our games can keep meeting our ambitious performance targets, even on the lowest end consoles.
Write and develop robust maintainable code.
Implement features across current and next-gen platforms.
Identify and solve technical problems as they arise, including cross-platform issues, debugging, profiling and optimising for reduced memory usage and increased real-time performance.
Collaborate productively, communicating ideas and issues clearly across disciplines.
Be responsive to deadlines and work well under pressure, meeting multiple production objectives and deadlines.

Essential Skills

At least 1 year's games industry experience developing for multiple platforms on industry standard engines (Unreal/Unity).
Great working and technical knowledge of Unreal Engine with good understanding of blueprints and optimising code.
Excellent C++ programming skills with a familiarity of scripting systems like Python, Javascript/Nodejs.
Experience with current-gen consoles. Nintendo Switch an advantage.
Strong debugging, profiling and optimisation skills, specifically on low end devices.
Robust software engineering and software architecture principles and practices.
Good communication and team working with game developers from all disciplines.
Excellent initiative, self-motivation, organisational and problem solving skills, with the ability to both drive and follow direction.

Benefits

We believe in having a healthy work life balance so we try to always ensure we work a 9 - 5 workday whenever possible
We believe creative collaboration is at the heart of great experiences, so you will have lots of opportunities to bring your ideas to our games.
Our bespoke office is located in the newly developed Water’s Edge building overlooking the city’s quay at the heart of Dundee.
You will have the opportunity to work on both current and next-gen platforms.
Our team loves to play board games, but we do lots of other things too both in and out of work for everyone to get involved in.
We often organise out-of-office events such as game nights and dinners.

We can’t wait to hear from you!