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Core Tech Engineer

About Splash Damage

We founded Splash Damage with a mission to create lifelong friendships amongst our players and our staff by building the world’s most engaging multiplayer experiences. We only team up with the world’s leading partners and have worked with many of gaming’s most beloved universes over the years.

Our studio culture is built around autonomy, friendliness, and constant learning, and we look after our talent with a comprehensive benefits package. The Sunday Times named Splash Damage the UK’s 47th Best Company to Work For in 2018, and we’ve been awarded their Best Companies accreditation four years running. We also believe our teams create better work when they have a range of perspectives and opinions to draw from, and we are committed to increasing diversity across our studio to consistently enable that.

We are currently working on numerous exciting titles for PC and consoles, including Gears 5, Gears Tactics, H alo: The Master Chief Collection and a few that haven’t been announced yet. Come join us!

The role:

At Splash Damage, we create multiplayer combat games that champion team play and promote lifelong friendships. Members of the Core Tech programming team are responsible for implementing the core systems, pipelines and infrastructure that empower the development team and provide the solid framework for our new, unannounced title. We work closely with other disciplines to help them realise their ideas with a focus on delivering value in an iterative, agile environment.

As a Core Tech Programmer, you will work within cross-functional teams to deliver features on-time and to a high level of quality. You will be part of a team that is responsible for planning, implementing and maintaining core engine features that encompass rendering, networking and low-level systems programming. With a constant focus on scalability, performance and memory usage, you will apply your expertise in data structures and algorithms for modern, multi-core architectures to build state-of-the-art technology for both PC and Consoles. You work effectively in close collaboration with other disciplines to gather requirements and collectively develop solutions.

You excel at:

• Working effectively in open and collaborative environments.
• Employing a can-do attitude and an analytical mindset to solve difficult problems as part of an agile, fast-moving and highly-focused team.
• Breaking down your work into measurable and achievable tasks.
• Writing clear, maintainable and portable code.
• Communicating ideas, intent and constraints to both technical and non-technical team members.
• Monitoring, maintaining and optimising the performance of the game.

• Strong practical knowledge of C++, with relevant professional experience.
• Strong computer science and maths background.
• Professional experience in systems development for a shipped game on PS4 and/or Xbox One (such as I/O, rendering, low-level networking, memory management, content pipelines etc).
• Experience profiling and optimising code for optimal CPU, GPU, memory and bandwidth usage.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to self-organise .
• The people skills to work collaboratively within a team.

• Professional Unreal Engine 4 development experience.
• Professional experience developing Games-as-a-Service titles.
• Experience with automated testing techniques.

Studio Culture

Splash Damage offers a fun, friendly and relaxed working environment. Everyone here shares a passion for video games and that shows in daily office life. We get together regularly for a wide range of social events, enjoying pub quizzes, cinema trips and gaming nights, competing in our plethora of sports and game groups, and letting our hair down at our legendary company parties, karaoke and our weekly Friday get together s for in-house drinks, games and more.

Find out more on our Studio page .