Tag Games is an ambitious and growing mobile game studio based in Dundee, Scotland. We have a 15 year legacy of making mobile games for some of the biggest brands on the planet.

This year Tag is embarking on our most ambitious and exciting title yet, developing a brand new cross-platform IP in partnership with a world-renowned publisher. We are looking for passionate new people to join us on our quest to forge a place in players' hearts.

Our culture is collaborative and relaxed. We encourage feedback and support each other to solve problems - always striving to be the best we can be. We are driven by a passion for quality and delivering outstanding products. If this feels like a studio where you can thrive and grow then we have a variety of roles available, both in our Dundee studio and remote. It would be great to have you join our team!

The Role:

Tag Games Studios is looking for an experienced graphics programmer to work on an ambitious new cross platform IP. You will play a pivotal role in developing the visual presentation of this world-leading IP, supporting the art and engineering teams as part of the graphics programming team with technical direction, planning and architecture with direction from project stakeholders to deliver a best in class gameplay experience.

Here's what you will be doing

Designing and creating performant graphics code in Unity on multiple platforms.
Authoring optimal shader code that will work across a variety of platforms.
Delivering high quality visuals within the capabilities of a wide range of target hardware
Working with the art team, under direction of the art director, to deliver on the vision for the project.
Designing and building art tools to increase the efficiency of the art creation process.
Profiling (GPU, CPU, Memory) to find and reduce bottlenecks and optimise existing code.
Planning your work and assisting others with planning as required.

To do this job, you will need

Professional experience as a graphics programmer having shipped at least one title.
Experience with graphics programming in Unity
Experience targeting multiple GPU types on mobile platforms
Strong depth of knowledge on graphics programming topics and techniques
Strong depth of knowledge working with shaders including programming HLSL
Strong depth of knowledge programming HLSL. Good knowledge of art pipelines
Good knowledge of profiling tools
Experience identifying bottlenecks and optimising graphics code
Good communication skills with technical and non-technical people
A passion for graphics, graphics programming and games.

While not required, below are nice to have

Experience working with Unity's Scriptable Render Pipelines (URP/HDRP/Custom)
Experience developing tools/scripts in art applications (e.g. Maya, photoshop, etc.) to support the art pipeline, ideally using python
Experience writing compute shaders
Experience using PBR workflows
Experience developing free to play games
Experience working on a live title providing regular updates
Delivery of console or PC titles
Familiarity with Agile development processes
Have worked with distributed teams in different timezones