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Associate Lead Programmer

Job Description

Ubisoft Abu Dhabi is seeking for a talented Associate Lead programmer (mobile) with experience and expertise in mobile and online domain. The main responsibilities of the Associate Lead programmer would be to make various modules for the game, architect new features with other programmers and mentor the programming team.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Understand the game design and create technical designs based on them.
• Follow and enhance existing development process and set standards.
• Educate other team members on programming issue and concepts.
• Lead the team and Mentor and develop team members.
• Ensuring task management for the team and meeting deadlines.

Qualifications

Key Requirements:

• Previous leadership experience over managing team of 3-4 programmers.
• Should have worked on multiple games and experienced full lifecycle project delivery including one mobile game.
• Possess excellent programming skills in Unity3D development using C#.
• Should be very keen to keep the game under the memory requirement and to maintain 60fps.
• Should have very thorough understanding of design patterns like Entity - Component model / MVC pattern.
• Basic Understanding of the Graphics Pipeline, Shaders, 3D Maths.
• Should possess understanding of backend systems, bottlenecks, performance, scaling and optimization.
• Have clear understanding of various protocols like HTTP and knowledge in various backend technologies like PHP, Java is a plus.
• Knowledge of programming languages (C, C++, Objective-C) would be preferred.
• Have basic understanding of large scale databases, NoSQL solutions and knowledge on caching solutions like Memcache, Redis, etc. and various caching techniques.
• Be flexible in organizing the work as per the requirements.
• Should be fluent in English and should hold good communication skills to interact with various teams.
• A passion for creating or playing games and team player.

Additional Information

We are a multicultural team with 26 nationalities in 60 people. 100% of our teams are expats and we offer end to end relocation to UAE for self and family plus some exciting benefits and perks.

To all recruitment agencies: Ubisoft does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Ubisoft employees or any other company location. Ubisoft is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Company Description

Opened in October 2011, Ubisoft Abu Dhabi is one of the first major video game studios based in the UAE capital and is focusing on developing and bringing to market successful mobile games for a worldwide audience.

Ubisoft Abu Dhabi successfully released two hidden-object / investigation free-to-play mobile titles: CSI: Hidden Crimes™ and NCIS: Hidden Crimes™, both based on the worldwide known TV shows of the same name. With the acquisition in February 2017 of the massive multiplayer free-to-play game Growtopia, the studio works on the title’s live operations.

The team keeps focusing its efforts on creating further content for its live games and strengthening its player’s engagement in addition to work on other unannounced projects.