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Senior Gameplay Programmer 12 Month FTC - Studio Elevation (Remote in the UK)

Elevation is re-establishing the boundaries of VR. We’re looking for a talented Senior Gameplay Programmer to help us explore, create, and deliver world leading innovation in software and VR hardware.  

As Senior Gameplay Programmer, you will be responsible for prototyping and collaborating with a diverse team of engineers and developers, capable of creating genre leading titles. You will be driving high levels of innovation and implementation with both your team and your own work. You will own and drive the discovery, implementation, and refinement of intuitive, world class and aspirational VR games.  

The rundown:  

  • 12 month Fixed Term Contract 
  • Full time (37.5 hours per week) 
  • Fully remote within the UK 
  • Salary competitive and dependent on experience) 

Responsibilities: 

  • Collaboratively discover, design & build the fun within a cross-discipline team.  
  • Become a guardian and evangelist of VR sensibilities, possibilities, and platform innovation 
  • Support an agile, fail fast methodology when discovering and exploring gameplay content 
  • Be autonomous and executional – build, maintain and grow the core gameplay systems into robust, production-ready code.  
  • Help realize technical innovations for our products and studio’s technology. 
  • Collaborate with the team to ensure our code is clean, organised, and easy to maintain.  
  • Be a positive behavioral and mental role model for the team and studio. 
  • 5 years of professional game development experience, with a minimum of 3 shipped titles including at least 1 current generation console title 
  • A deep knowledge of C++ and real-time game engines e.g. Unreal or Unity  
  • Demonstrable experience at owning and delivering game features or systems 
  • Strong communication skills with a focus on positive cross discipline teamwork  
  • Proven, demonstrable knowledge of game development processes, real-time implementation, optimization, and cross platform development   
  • Experience in rapid prototyping and creative problem solving  
  • A committed team player, recognizing the importance and value of people within a technology environment 
  • Passionate about creating award winning VR titles.   

 

Desired experience: 

  • Experience of VR game development 
  • Confidence in communicating technical complexities and risks clearly and concisely, to non-technical staff 
  • Strong competitor analysis – the ability to critique and deconstruct competitor video games 
  • A willingness to ‘muck in’ at any level to get the job done 
  • Comfortable working in an Agile environment and responsive to change in the face of uncertainty  
  • Approachable and light-hearted, with a good sense of fun and a positive mental attitude 

We are nDreams – we develop and publish the world’s most immersive VR games. You may know us as the developer behind Synapse, Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked, and Frenzies. As a publisher, we have also supported the release of other studio’s titles including Little Cities, PowerWash Simulator VR, and Vendetta Forever. With humble beginnings as an independent studio, we combine amazing projects with a personal, caring touch. We’ve got more incredible titles to be announced soon! 

We believe the best workplaces and games are created by diverse, happy and safe teams. We're committed to building a culture centred on respect, wellbeing and balance. It's crucial we make our games and industry more accessible to underrepresented communities. We strive to live this through the people we hire, the experiences we create and the causes we support. 

We want everyone to have the opportunity to bring their best, authentic self to work. Please let us know if you require reasonable adjustments during the interview process by emailing interviewing@ndreams.com or speaking to your nDreams recruiter. For more information about reasonable adjustments, check out this guidance from Scope.  

We offer great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time and support, as well as regular socials. Beyond this, there’s an excellent holiday offering, pension scheme, health insurance, life cover and much more.  

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nDreams is a virtual reality games publisher and developer based in Farnborough the United Kingdom and was founded in 2006.

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