Principal Engine Programmer

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People Can Fly

Propose, implement, own tasks and features in a timely fashion to a high standard of quality;
Provide regular updates to the production for your software and reach out to other parties who will be impacted by your work;
Collaborating with PCF Framework to define the direction of the shared components, and augment the stability, features and performance of existing shared modules;
Propose, design and implement technical solutions to complex problems presented by the production;
Produce highly efficient systems and improve the performance of other systems;
Breakdown your own tasks, update your progress, ask questions and raise issues to relevant stakeholders as well as proposing solutions when needed;
Work closely with the project Architect to implement high quality features and code, proactively identify and address risks with the team;
Partner with leads to define priority management for features;
Proactively participate and approve code reviews;
Share knowledge with the rest of the studio;
Occasionally support leads in recruitment projects with HR collaboration;
Define the best practices and technical solutions used at the company;
Work with QA teams to define testing requirements for new and existing features.

Design, implement and maintain new low-level systems and overall architecture;
Creating performance and memory optimisation tools and features;
Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the engine to support productions;
Test, debug, profile, optimize and document implementations;
Being up to date with features from other engines and provide expertise about possible implementations;
Evaluating and accepting systems from other code teams;
Stay up to date with features from other engines and provide expertise about possible implementations.

8+ years experience working in console/PC games;
Involved in the production cycle of at least 2 titles;
Excellent primary programming language skills (C++);
Proficient with Source Control and Code Review tools (Swarm, Perforce, Git, etc.);
Good knowledge of Project Management Software (JIRA, Confluence, etc.);
Excellent Unreal Engine knowledge;
Excellent math and/or physics skills;
Experience working with multi-threaded systems;
Performance and memory optimisation skills;
Ability to write solid, reliable, efficient code;
Experience with multiple core systems, such as graphics, tools, audio, networking, memory handling, scripting, etc.;
Strong mentoring skills;
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.