Description
At Lockwood, our vision is to bring people together through Avakin Life so they can play, share and socialise! Listed as one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies by the FT for 2020 as well as winning numerous TIGA and other awards several years in a row, our journey’s only just begun. With great benefits including an employee share scheme and profit related quarterly bonus, we’re a great destination for those who want to work on cutting edge social experiences in an environment that fosters communication and creativity. We’re always looking for good people – so if you’re a great person and an amazing developer we’d love to hear from you.
We're looking for a super tech coder with experience of Unity and C# to assist with the development of the core framework layer of Avakin Life. With almost 8 million monthly players, this is a great opportunity to work on a highly rated mobile title. This role can be performed remotely.
Responsibilities
- Work in a team of engineers to design, prototype, implement and optimise core technology and features;
- Own assigned areas and become the point of contact for other developers;
- Proactively help to improve the existing technology used to build our games, whilst minimising technical debt and maintenance risks;
- Identify technical and developmental risks/obstacles and find solutions to overcome them;
- Work within the constraints of our existing proprietary technology and develop new technology when necessary;
- Promote and adhere to best-practice with regards to code quality and performance;
- Assist with performance profiling and optimisation of your own and others code to fit platform constraints;
- Collaborate with the Leads to plan and schedule tasks;
- Keep up to date with the latest advances in engine and general programming techniques in the games and wider technology industries;
- Collaborate with our QA teams to identify and fix bugs in a timely manner;
- Write system documentation and test cases for assigned systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years programming experience developing games or similar products;
- Strong practical experience of C# and C++;
- Experience developing with modern game engines, such as Unity or Unreal;
- Desirable: Experience of developing software for Android and/or iOS, experience of developing game engine code, experience of using CPU, memory and power profiling tools to inform optimisation work, experience in a Continuous Delivery environment - working on a live product, experience writing and debugging multi-threaded code, bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relate discipline.