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Smoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans. SGI is fearless in creating IP and boldly partners with renowned brands to develop a wide range of world-class, immersive titles and interactive experiences that resonate with strategy gamers worldwide and entertain millions of casual players every day.

We offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and a creative and driven work environment with our passionate team of talented professionals on high quality projects.

Job Purpose

As a Lead Programmer at Smoking Gun Interactive (SGI), you’re a talented and driven person who enjoys working on great projects. You have experience in a variety of areas of game development and are able and willing to work on any area of game programming needed, with a focus on full-stack development experience. You’re experienced in mentoring and training programmers and are responsible for the oversight and management of a team of programmers.

Requirements

In this role you will:

  • Collaborate with the Technical Director to establish a unified technology vision for the project including writing and reviewing technical design documents;

  • Produce high-quality, efficient, clean, and modular code;

  • Collect and document users' requirements and develop logical specifications;

  • Research, evaluate and synthesize technical information to design, develop and test computer-based systems;

  • Develop data, process and network models to optimize architecture and to evaluate the performance and reliability of designs;

  • Plan, design and co-ordinate the development, integration and operation of computer-based systems;

  • Assess, test, troubleshoot, document, upgrade and develop maintenance procedures for applications software;

  • Lead and co-ordinate teams in the development of software and integrated information systems, process control software and other embedded software control systems;

  • Show proactivity in identifying tasks/problems that need tackling, outside of known scheduled work, from refactoring to bug fixing;

  • Be able to go above and beyond in their daily tasks as required;

  • Provide mentorship and training for programmers to create an atmosphere of cooperation and learning;

  • Provide and accept feedback on all aspects of code quality (performance, readability, testability, design);

  • Demonstrate forward thinking in regards to what impact design and implementation decisions will have on the overall project during each phase of development;

  • Work with Production in the creation and risk-management of project milestone goals and schedules;

  • Coordinate the hiring, supervising and managing of other members of the team.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

  • 5+ years’ experience as a programmer in the game industry and or related field;

  • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent;

  • Passion for playing and creating innovative games – you consider yourself a gamer;

  • A natural affinity for being strongly self-motivated and an independent worker;

  • Expert working knowledge of C++, Standard Library and Object Oriented Design;

  • Strong understanding of general and 3D math, statistics and probability;

  • Excellent problem-solving abilities, proven ability to tackle hard problems in creative ways;

  • Excellent Oral and written communication skills;

  • A positive attitude with a desire to work within a team environment towards a common goal;

  • Impressive ability to estimate work load and execute on the work in the time estimated.

It would also be great if you had experience with:

  • Any of the following languages, C#, Java, Lua, HLSL/Cg shaders;

  • Mobile: iOS, Android;

  • Test Driven Development;

  • Visual Studio, Perforce;

  • Unit testing and TDD for server development;

  • C# server environments, AWS, Azure, GCP;

  • Running a live server environment and supporting operations.

Benefits

  • 10 days vacation leave

  • 5 paid days personal leave

  • 7 paid sick days

  • Life Insurance & Accidental Death & Dismemberment

  • Dependent Life Insurance

  • Long Term Disability (LTD)

  • Extended Healthcare Benefit

  • Dental Care

  • Hybrid working

  • Training & Development