Studio: Creative Assembly
Job Opening: Lead Gameplay Programmer
Location: Horsham, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Take responsibility for hiring, leading, and mentoring within your team
- Collaborate with designers and artists to create high-quality gameplay features, including contributing to the design and iteration of those features to ensure they are implemented in a way that realises the project vision
- Work with directors in scoping and planning future work for your team, balancing technical and project requirements
- Build and maintain well-engineered C++ code with high levels of stability and performance
- Proactively improve and develop workflows and processes to allow your team to deliver high quality game content smoothly and efficiently
- Contribute to and support the technical roadmap of our future titles.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Extensive games industry experience working in a senior capacity
- Experience leading a team of programmers and a passion for mentoring and guiding a team
- Strong C++ programming skillset, with knowledge of the latest language features
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and extensible code
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated with a drive to improve yourself and others
- A desire to collaborate closely with other disciplines to streamline our development processes and eliminate bottlenecks
- Passion and interest in games and game development.
Desirable:
- Cross-platform development experience
- Experience working in a large codebase
- Experience of leading a team towards the release of a commercial game project
- Strong understanding of iterative development and experience working closely with designers to deliver features incrementally
- Broad gaming experience and a sense for good game design
- An avid gamer, ideally strategy games.
