Game Development Innovator

1 week ago


Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom Glowmade Full time

Company Overview


Glowmade is a small, exciting company dedicated to unlocking people's imagination and helping them express themselves in wonderful, fun ways. We're currently busy building a new multiplayer cooperative game with an ambitious creative wrapper around it.



Salary


The estimated salary for this position is £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, based on the UK location and industry standards.



Job Description


This role involves enthusiastically jumping into our existing codebase, improving key developer tool and pipeline features. You will build relationships with the users of the engine - the team - to understand how to help them achieve their goals.



Key Responsibilities



  • Enthusiastically jump into our existing codebase, improving key developer tool and pipeline features
  • Build relationships with the users of the engine - the team - to understand how to help them achieve their goals
  • Work closely with Jonathan and Oscar, our principal engine programmers, to more fully expose the capabilities of the engine to the rest of the team in a user-friendly way


Required Skills and Qualifications


The ideal candidate would have:



  • Care about code quality and robustness, but not to the detriment of the end goal: delivering the game.
  • Know lots about performance tuning and optimisation
  • Come armed with a strong technical background, where your intuition to the 'what' is backed up by the 'why'
  • Be at C++ Level


Benefits



  • Private Medical Cover
  • Weekly PT Sessions
  • Accrue extra holiday days per year of employment: 1 additional day of holiday on the 1st January following your first full year of work then 1 further day of holiday every 2 years
  • 3x Wellbeing Days per year: It's like a duvet day except you don't have to stay in bed - it's for you to do whatever feeds your soul
  • 3x Charity Days: Extra days to volunteer for social or community work
  • Flexible working around our core hours of 10-4.30
  • Matched pension contributions (We always give 5%)
  • Generous parental leave (Please see handbook for full details)
  • Bike to work scheme (Free bike, basically)
  • £250 annual "personal development" budget, you can spend this on self improvement in some way (doesn't even have to be work related)
  • PASTRY WEDNESDAY and other delicious food based events



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