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Lead Programmer

Would you like to work on some of the biggest franchises in gaming? Certain Affinity, the largest independent video game developer in Austin, Texas, has opened a location in Toronto, Canada and we’re looking for exceptionally talented people to join us. Our Toronto studio will collaborate with our Austin location, and together we’ll be co-developing AAA FPS games and creating our own compelling new IP.

Certain Affinity is looking to hire a Lead Programmer to lead a team of programmers with passion, focus, and drive. This role will balance hands-on programming and managing people. Learn more about the specifics below. If this type of role is what you have been looking for, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of programmers at a variety of experience levels
• Turn ambiguous technical requirements into well-defined tasks that are delivered on time
• Collaborate with artists, designers, and producers to prioritize, schedule, and assign tasks to the programming team
• Hire and mentor less experienced programmers, providing feedback and career growth and development opportunities
• Lead by example; 50% hands-on programming, 50% people management
• Facilitate team communication and collaboration
• Help establish and evangelize departmental processes and best practices
• Find efficient and creative solutions in existing codebases
• Be responsible for your team’s network, memory, GPU and CPU footprint
• Ability to drive cross-studio development

Requirements

• Experience leading a team of 4 or more programmers on a shipped title
• Proficiency in reading and writing C/C++
• 3+ years of professional programming experience
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Creative, motivated, focused, passionate, and results-oriented
• Familiarity with the core systems used by game features such as scripting, UI, rendering, animation, physics, and data pipelines
• Comfortable working in a large established codebase
• Able to complete complex tasks with minimal supervision
• Must be willing and able to travel internationally
• A desire to work in a diverse and inclusive environment
• Passion for video games

Extra Credit

• Console experience
• Development experience in Unreal 4
• Experience in C# and Python
• Passion for multiplayer action games