Senior Gameplay Programmer, Squad Busters

Squad Busters is a casual action RPG that brings all of the beloved Supercell IPs under one roof and the latest entry to Supercell’s lineup of global hit games, and the team is now looking for a new core team member - Senior Gameplay Programmer.

Gameplay programmers are at the heart of our content development, working together with designers, artists, and other programmers to craft fresh, new experiences for our players. We’re looking for someone who can help us create ambitious gameplay mechanics for new characters, game modes, and features - from iterative prototypes to final implementation for our regular updates. A big part of this role is also managing your own work, making calls on prioritization and working closely together with the rest of the development team.

Joining the Squad team when they transition from an emerging game into a live game will offer you a unique opportunity to shape the future of the game, and your work will have a major impact on the experience of millions of players every day.

We offer you a chance to join a team of professionals, where trust, collaboration, and a passion for high quality work, are driving forces to achieving amazing results. We believe in each other’s skills and value each other’s work. If these are values that you are passionate about, then you might just be the person we are looking for.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with designers, other programmers, and artists to prototype and develop gameplay mechanics for new characters, game modes and game features.
• Develop new gameplay ideas and own their implementation from start to finish.
• Improve the existing gameplay systems’ fun, robustness and scalability, to be used and enjoyed by millions of players.
• Identify and improve areas that will allow us to improve our pipelines and e.g. allow designers to prototype faster.
• Involvement in all areas of game development including Programming of Game Logic, Artificial Intelligence, Graphics and User Interface.
• Independently create complete solutions from scratch
  

Requirements

• Significant of experience working within game development, on mobile, console, or PC
• Comfortable working on an existing code base
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Ability to optimize code for performance
• Strong, professional experience using C++ in large code bases
• Passion for games
• Self motivated and proactive in problem solving

Nice to Have

• Experience working on live game development, and familiar with live operations
• Understanding of server development and real time systems
• Understanding and experience in different game technology areas (gameplay, graphics, tools etc.)