As a senior software engineer, you have experience in a variety of game development areas and you are willing and interested in working on any area of game development as needed. This is a great opportunity for a Software Engineer who is excited by the prospect of working on complex problems as part of a small team. This role perfect for someone who enjoys autonomy, task ownership and working with cross-functional teams.
What will you do?
- Work on a small team of engineers to come up with world-class engineering solutions.
- Partner with other engineers, designers, artists, QA, audio and animators on a variety of tasks.
- Collaborate with the Technical Director to help establish a unified technology vision for the project including writing and reviewing technical design documents.
- 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.
- Experience with game backend technologies: dedicated servers and backend services.
- 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.
- Frequent virtual team events.
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!