Taking pride in maintaining the best and most reliable build processes, server configurations and development workflows, our Game Engineers don’t just help to remove technical roadblocks when they arrive, they foresee them and prevent them from ever occurring.
They are passionate about technology, up to date with the latest developments in the industry, and use this knowledge on a day to day basis to ensure that our games are always cutting edge.
Game programmers at heart, our Game Engineers take a step back and analyse our projects as a whole, designing, implementing and monitoring the architecture that allows our team to efficiently craft some of the most innovative, engaging and rewarding games and experiences in our industry.
What you'll be spearheading:
• Design and develop elegant solutions for a diverse range of complex problems to empower our teams to create games that are both technically and creatively innovative.
• Work closely with artists, designers, QA and engineers across all projects to discover opportunities where software can improve our workflows and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with programmers, artists and designers to create tools, asset pipelines, workflow processes and cloud solutions that are reliable, efficient and easy to use.
• Design and develop game software with a high standard of code quality, stability, maintainability, readability and performance.
• Provide expert advise regard the best operating systems, hardware platforms, game engines and techniques for implementing games, features and tools.
• Diagnose and resolve issues with current and past projects, and test to ensure stability.
• Contribute to the design of new product ideas and features.
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new game ideas to evaluate their fun, feasibility and market fit
You're the one for us if you have:
• High standards of code quality, usability and maintainability.
• Expert experience developing PC games with Unity3D and C#
• Experience with REST APIs and cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, etc).
• Strong knowledge of bench-marking, optimisation and PC hardware performance.
• Able to thrive in a diverse, collaborative team working productively and autonomously.
• Strong experience with common gameplay features such as physics, animation, user interfaces, state machines, networking, etc.
• Experience writing other software such as C++ DLLs, APIs, servers, windows services, console programs, Powershell/batch scripts, or websites.
• Experience working in teams with version control systems such as Git, Mercurial or Perforce.
• Experience with a variety of software development tools and practices such as unit testing, build automation, dependency injection, data-driven development, etc.
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• A passion for games is critical as you’ll be collaborating with the games development team and contributing to LAI Games products.
It's great if you have:
• Experience with iOS, Android and web development, and any other programming languages
• Experience developing for VR
Qualities we seek:
• Tertiary degree in a relevant technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience in design and development of games.
If this sounds like you, click 'Want to Visit' to introduce yourself to our team :)
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