Sr Combat Programmer

Job Description

Join the award-winning team that created God of War

As part of the gameplay programming team, you'll get to work with the best programmers, designers and animators that bring our genre-defining combat to life. In this role, you'll get to have a hand in building player and enemy mechanics, weapons and combat specific systems that create our combat gameplay and best-in-class player feel.

You're talented and motivated, with tons of initiative. You get things done. Sound interesting? Give us a shout!

Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and maintain systems to support combat. The ideal candidate will be comfortable jumping into camera, weapon, projectile, or collision systems.
• Empower designers and animators to prototype, rapidly iterate and refine combat related work.
• Collaborate with designers and animators to realize cutting edge combat gameplay.
• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional code.
• Profile and optimize to remove bottlenecks.
• Test and document all produced code.
• Mentor and guide less experienced programmers as needed.

Requirements
• Expertise in C/C++ developing gameplay systems and features.
• Minimum five years professional programming experience.
• Good understanding of game design, including what makes a game fun and interesting to play.
• Able to balance rapid iteration with long term vision and solid code architecture.
• Familiarity working in camera, state machines and animation systems.
• Knowledge of game physics including weapon and projectile collision resolution.
• Excellent spoken and written communication.
• Able and motivated to work with other team members.
• Commitment to code quality, documentation, and sound testing procedures.

Preferred Experience
• Shipped at least one title working on combat or gameplay systems.

We value talent, self-motivation, and team spirit. In turn, we provide an environment with a large degree of autonomy and opportunities for growth.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj6qjw-3-139-86-56-42 in your application.