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Gameplay Programmer

Creative Assembly is looking for fantastic programmers to join the well established Total War Campaign team.

In this role, you will be working alongside programmers, designers and artists to deliver new, innovative and compelling gameplay features for the campaign map area of Total War.

This is a chance to work in a large multi-project development environment with plenty of opportunity to develop your skills and career. We are a highly collaborative team and encourage contribution to all areas of the game. Your opinions, even outside your area of expertise, will never be dismissed.

Key Responsibilities

Work with designers and artists to create high-quality gameplay features, including contributing to the design and iteration of those features. Take ownership of new and existing features, and see those features through production to release. Create high-quality, maintainable code using up-to-date C++ practices.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

Essential

• Excellent academic background with a 2:1 degree or higher (or equivalent) in a relevant technical field such as computer science, software engineering, mathematics or physics
• Excellent C++ programming skillset
• Expert OO design skills
• Superb knowledge of programming best practices
• Good analytical and mathematical ability
• Good communication skills to enable effective collaboration with programmers, designers, artists and management staff
• Experience as a programmer in the games industry – at least 2 shipped titles

• Experience developing gameplay systems for strategy games or similar
• Broad gaming experience and a sense of good game design
• A keen player of strategy games and games in general, including Total War
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Perforce and other source control experience
• Familiarity with Lua integration and scripting

• Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, as all UK Bank holidays
• Annual discretionary studio bonus
• Defined career development pathways and personalised training support so you can truly excel in your area of expertise
• Support in Learning and Development; internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops to inspire and enthuse including internal programming conferences, on-site training with renowned specialists as well as global conference attendance
• Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
• Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme
• Free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site
• Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
• Free breakfast every day - toast, bagels, pancakes, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, smoothies, juices, milkshakes and more in our fully stocked kitchen
• An employee assistance programme and onsite wellbeing sessions
• In-studio heavily subsidised massage therapy
• Discounts portal giving access to a wide range of extras such as heavily discounted home technology, travel insurance, corporate gym membership, cinema tickets, holidays, trips out and Ikea vouchers
• Amazing studio parties such as our CA Summer Festival, a Christmas Party for you and your partner plus a separate Children’s Christmas Party. We also have our wrap parties for all our releases.
• Free Japanese lessons, life drawing, creative writing and Pilates classes
• A range of CA Social events including the annual sponsored Walking Challenge to 100Km, Couch to 5k in our beautiful local park, basketball, game and movie evenings, board game club, 5-a-side football, CA Choir, Sword fighting (yes, sword fighting) and loads more
• We offer discounts with local businesses, including estate agents and local shops to support our local economy

• Quality - Everything we do is about quality, from individual actions to final products, we take pride in the detail and authenticity of all our creations.

• Focus - We focus on our strengths as a studio. Our teams might work across different projects, but our goals and vision should be clear for everyone.

• Teamwork - We are a collective who thrive working across teams, empowering each other to succeed.

• Respect - Respect at CA is given as a default, we respect each other as diverse and unique individuals, who come together to create games our fans will love.

• Trust - Alongside respect, we trust each other, our teams and our leaders as experts of their craft. Everyone is given creative autonomy and freedom to make a real contribution to our projects and our legacy.