Senior Gameplay Programmer

  • Vancouver
  • Jetpack Interactive

About Jetpack Interactive:

Jetpack Interactive has been a fixture in the Vancouver game development community since 2011. Our studio DNA originated from three flagship Vancouver development studios (Black Box Games, Deep Fried Entertainment, & United Front Games). We are a console & PC game developer and have focused on building long-term relationships with AAA game studios who need engineering expertise to help bring their games to market.

Jetpack has worked alongside Sony Interactive Entertainment (Santa Monica Studio) on several God Of War projects, including the port of GOW 2018 to PC/Steam and GOW Ragnarok. Jetpack’s work has received praise from critics and Sony Santa Monica alike and our studio continues to collaborate with Santa Monica Studio and other PlayStation projects.

We are looking for a few skilled game developers to join our team and help PlayStation bring some of their most prized IPs to market. We value mutual respect, trust, and shared knowledge built on years of experience and working together. We're a team with a true passion for game development and a long history of delivering superior results.

Role:

You will be part of a select engineering dev team that is custom-built for a long-term partnership with PlayStation. You understand game design, are passionate about delivering a high quality player experience and have the technical knowledge to bring to life the gameplay features and systems in a genre-defining game.

Responsibilities:

● Design, implement, and maintain systems and tools to support gameplay and narrative

● Collaborate with designers and other programmers as needed

● Help build a Jetpack culture of constant improvement and collaboration

● Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional code

● Profile and optimize to remove bottlenecks

● Test and document code produced

● Understand, communicate and prioritize the needs of our clients

● Support client tools and technology as needed for the project

Requirements:

● B.Sc. degree in computer science or equivalent experience

● Minimum 7 years of professional video game programming experience

● Expertise in C and C++

● Proficient in linear algebra, matrix and vector math used in games

● Professional experience demonstrating proficiency in algorithm design, understanding of complexity, and software architecture and design

● Ability to write clean, maintainable and extensible code with attention to reusability

● Ability to effectively manage relationships with external clients

● Enthusiasm and initiative

● Excellent spoken and written communication

Preferred Experience:

● Experience building narrative tools

Interested?

Please apply here or send your resume to careers@jetpackinteractive.ca.

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