Gasket Games is looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer to join our tight knit engineering team. This role will be instrumental in creating world class gameplay mechanics across multiple platforms. As a Senior Gameplay Engineer on a small team, you have the ability to influence core parts of the games that we are creating.
What will you do?
- Collaborate with programmers and others at Gasket including game designers and animators to discuss constraints and establish the technical possibilities for the different gameplay features.
- Implement and optimize interaction controls and systems with the game designer to ensure fluid playability.
- Ensure that the implementation of the game controls and systems provides the player experience set out by the game design team.
- Participate in code reviews.
- Mentor more junior engineers. Our team consists of a variety of levels. While mentoring more junior engineers is part of the job, you will be learning from them while you’re mentoring them.
Who are you?
- You have a degree in Engineering or you are self-taught. How you got there doesn’t matter so much, how you perform is more important to us.
- You have shipped several titles.
- Experience programming in C++.
- Experience with Unreal 4 or other game engines. We use Unreal 4 for most of our game development so experience with that engine would be a bonus.
- A positive attitude and a willingness to learn and knowledge share.
Finally, a little about Gasket Games Corp. We are a studio of 35 game developers who usually work out of our studio located in Vancouver. Due to COVID-19 we are all working from our home offices, creating engaging content and gameplay. We stay connected through Slack, Google Hangouts, email, our weekly studio update and our virtual happy hour. We have a high bar for quality within our games and mutual respect within our company culture.
We offer very competitive benefits including:
- Competitive salary.
- 4 weeks of paid vacation, plus a studio closure over the Winter holidays.
- Participation in the Employee Shares Option Plan.
- An extensive health and dental plan.
- An inclusive culture where you get to work with talented and respectful team members who want to make awesome games, just like you.
- Weekly studio update so that you know what’s going on, followed by a happy hour.
- Team events, both virtual and in person.
Gasket Games is a safe, supportive, diverse and inclusive environment where people of all walks of life are welcome and belong. We welcome and encourage all folks to apply.
If the role and our studio sound interesting to you, we would love to hear from you!