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Senior Software Engineer - Gameplay (Systems)

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Finding great talent and supporting our studios to be the top choice for people to do their best work is central to our philosophy. This is the principle behind our newly formed Seattle Studio focusing on open-world action-adventure games and pioneering next generation emergent storytelling. Join us and pursue your passion to craft high quality, groundbreaking games that empower players to generate incredible stories of heroic adventure. Help form the foundation of our ambitious, creative, diverse and inclusive team as we embark on this exciting journey!

We are making room for a talented Senior Software Engineer with a passion for innovative and engaging experiences to help us realize our vision of player-driven narrative in a AAA Action RPG. This engineer’s primary role will be to work closely with our design team and author highly robust and flexible systems in support of our dynamic narrative gameplay goals. This engineer will have the support of both a lead for technical guidance and a manager to ensure professional growth and well-being. And as a core member of our highly collaborative team, your influence will span as much of our codebase and design as your skills and interests dictate.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the team to flesh out the interconnected systems that will drive our procedural relationships and stories
  • Work with a mix of technical and less technical stakeholders to establish requirements
  • Work with leadership and production on accurate scheduling
  • Design, author, iterate on and maintain your systems to meet all functional, technical, and schedule requirements
  • Support systems with documentation and tooling for debugging, automation and testing
  • Work with QA and technical leadership to ensure stability and robustness of your systems
• Help grow your knowledge and skills and that of those around you by interacting regularly with your peers via impromptu conversations, technical discussions and code reviews
• Be supportive of those around you and open to exploring, proposing or adopting new ideas, technologies and practices

Qualifications:

• Eager collaborator and effective communicator with both engineers and content creators
• Proven track record of shipping large complex gameplay systems (RPG systems, world state and narrative systems a plus)
• Experience with Unreal Engine a plus
• Passion for excellence in both your individual contributions and the overall quality of the game
• Appreciation for robust, maintainable, easily readable code
• 5+ years of professional C/C++ experience, B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent