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Release Engineer - Elite Dangerous

Frontier
Cambridge / Remote
1 year ago
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Frontier is an established, market leading independent developer and publisher of videogames for PC and consoles. We have achieved serial successes across a wide variety of titles including Elite Dangerous , Planet Coaster , Jurassic World Evolution , Planet Zoo and F1 Manager . Founded in 1994, we are based in the world-leading technology cluster and historic city of Cambridge, England. With a growing team of over 800 talented people supporting our existing portfolio and ambitious future roadmap, along with our publishing label Frontier Foundry, we are passionate about creating innovative genre-leading games and authentic worlds for our communities of players.

About Elite: Dangerous

Whether you choose to fight, explore or trade alone or with others, Elite: Dangerous is a space simulation game of epic proportions. The most recent entry in a saga that started almost forty years ago, Elite: Dangerous offers the player no less than 400-billion-star systems to traverse, and vast planets on which to disembark and explore on foot.

Purpose of the Role

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic programmer to join our experienced team on Elite: Dangerous. Your role will be to help ensure the timely release of game updates on all supported platforms. This will involve coordinating with developers across the team to smoothly migrate newly developed features and functionality into our release branches. Candidates will also be expected to work with the continuous integration and deployment team and the QA department to safeguard the quality of our releases.

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What we can offer you

We offer the chance to work with talented and passionate people, developing and publishing sophisticated and enduring games in a creative and collaborative environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our player communities. Frontier rewards this passion and determination by sharing in the company’s success and by supporting our teams to keep doing what they love.

Well-being is a big focus at Frontier and we are continually evolving how we can support our staff. We encourage a healthy work/life balance and host a range of well-being activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes a success-based annual bonus, share option schemes, pension, life assurance, private family healthcare, flexitime working hours, enhanced maternity/paternity package, in-house subsidised catering, support with relocation, a Cycle to Work scheme and free bike servicing, and social events.

We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

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