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Graduate Programmer Generalist

About Halfbrick

Halfbrick is a game developing studio that is globally recognised for its success with phone games such as Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride. Previously headquartered in Brisbane, Halfbrick is now fully remote and present all around the world. Halfbrick is one of Australia’s longest running and most successful game developers. Our success is built on a culture that encourages passion, enthusiasm, a willingness to learn and an openness towards trying different approaches to how we make games.

Why you’ll love it

We believe our culture is a leading factor to our success and helps us to attract and retain the best talent! We work hard to foster an intensely collaborative, fun, and creative environment, with training and professional growth opportunities at our forefront. We strongly believe and endorse equal opportunity employment and value diversity at Halfbrick. We’re a tight knit crew who celebrate self-expression, and hey, some perks never hurt either.

Here are just a few of the things we like to offer our Bricks:

• Salary sacrificing.
• Career development and mentorship.
• Freedom to work on games you’re interested in.
• 100% company transparency.
• Mental health support.
• Flexible working hours.
• Part time work options.
• Fully remote working.
• We hire globally and all our opportunities are available world-wide.
• Salary reviews.
• Bonuses.
• Open management without bureaucracy.
• Charity and Meditation leave.
• Loads of social events.
• Awesome rewards and recognition opportunities.

About the opportunity

It’s a little-known fact that a lot of our Brick's have joined us as recent graduates as we know the value they bring! We are geared up and excited to welcome a new wave of graduates and we hope that you’re up for the challenge!

As a graduate you will join Halfbrick Bootcamp for 6 months where you will work with other graduates under the mentorship of our CEO. You will learn crucial skills in creating games that people remember for a lifetime and help us transform mobile phone entertainment through quality content and innovative ideas. You will be given the opportunity to grow inside a friendly and professional team of hard-working, dedicated, and incredibly talented individuals.

The remuneration for this role is $60,000 AUD. Watch our video to learn more about the graduate bootcamp!

Responsibilities

As we welcome you into our tight knit community, we promise to offer you ample opportunities to grow and do your best work, and ultimately love what you’re doing each day. In return, we ask you to:

• Object oriented programming (C# and/or C++)
• Linear algebra fundamentals (“Vector Math”)
• Knowledge of a game engine (preferably Unity)
• Good intuition for creating satisfying gameplay mechanics (gameplay feel)
• Ability to design modular game systems
• Performance-minded development: knowledge of the main causes of performance issues and how to solve them
• Good understanding of commonly used assets, their purpose and impacts on performance
• Networking code (bonus)
• Demonstrate capability and high-quality work.
• Quickly disseminate and adopt new processes and methodology.
• Work with and assist your peers to develop world class content, with a focus on innovation and creativity.
• Question and seek information from peers.
• Actively participate in creative meetings, contributing viable ideas.
• Constructively contribute to team culture through positive attitude.
• Articulate concepts and ideas in a clear and unambiguous way.
• Draw upon personal experience to determine best approach for task completion with an emphasis on reducing cycles of iteration and churn.
• Check own work for quality and accuracy.
• Most importantly, help create awesome games!

The successful candidate

Perhaps you’ve spent one too many nights up late gaming… Possibly you have a vendetta for fruit… Either way, you love games and more specifically, you love our games and you want to be part of creating something special! If you think you have what it takes to raise our talent bar, then you're exactly what we're looking for.

At Halfbrick, we have an emphasis on generalists to help us reach our goals - people who are explorers and learners and have a diverse knowledge to draw from (or interested in obtaining one). We understand and appreciate specialized talent but we encourage all of our Bricks to generalize their skillset so they can collaborate effectively and see the bigger picture. And don't worry, you don't have to already be a generalist - becoming one is as easy as:

• Saying yes to new opportunities
• Dabbling in different things
• Never stop improving (there's always new things to learn)
• Mind your gaps (identify what you're missing and bridge the gaps)