Lead Gameplay Engineer

• Substantial performance-related pay system on top of your basic compensation, along with enhanced pension contributions and our life assurance scheme.
• 4 day work week: Tuesday - Friday
• 20 days of annual leave, equivalent to 5 weeks within a 4 day work week.
• Summer & Winter closure, not taken from holiday allowance - 1st full week of August and Christmas Eve to New Years day.
• Bespoke VISA and relocation packages for you and your family, with support from our team throughout the whole process.
• Private Medical and Dental Cover for you and your family, along with a 24/7 digital GP service.
• Extensive Mental Health support, with Line Manager Mental Health training, a group of Mental Health First-Aiders, and on-site or remote counselling.
• Our bespoke Learning and Development course framework to help you grow as an employee, manager, and leader.
• Industry-leading fully paid 30 weeks maternity leave & 10 weeks paternity leave.

• Setting clear technical direction, intent and best practices within your team.
• Identifying risks and blockers early and proactively removing them.
• Working effectively in open and collaborative environments.
• Working closely with project leadership to plan long term road maps and improve development processes.
• Seeing the big picture impact of decisions and critically evaluating them.
• Write clear, maintainable and scalable code as needed
• Nurturing professional growth within your team with an enthusiastic attitude and a team-first mentality.
• Communicating ideas, intent and constraints to both technical and non-technical team members.

• Expert knowledge of C++, with relevant professional experience.

• Strong understanding of game-development related 3D maths principles.
• The leadership skills to lead a gameplay development team.
• Professional experience iteratively implementing gameplay features from inception to delivery.
• Experience working in all phases of game development, from feature design to planning and establishing roadmaps, implementation, and bug-fixing.
• Able to analyse and debug unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand and extend the functionality of an existing module.
• Has knowledge and experience driving an agile methodology within a team.
• Experience working closely with design teams to elicit requirements and design gameplay systems.
• Ability to review and give feedback on teams work in a clear and constructive manner.

• Professional development experience with real-time networked multiplayer games.
• Professional Unreal Engine 4 development experience on PC and/or consoles.
• Experience with multi-threaded development
• Experience developing for Xbox Series, PlayStation5, Xbox One and/or PS4.
• Experience profiling and optimising code for optimal CPU, memory and bandwidth usage.
• Experience in animation programming.
• Experience developing procedurally generated environments.

Splash Damage is an equal-opportunity employer. We believe our teams create better work when they have a range of perspectives to draw from, and we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment that celebrates diversity.