Senior UI Programmer - GOALS game studio (Stockholm or Remote)

Reimagine the future of what the best football game in the world can become

Imagine a gameplay-first football game that will be played by 100+ million people. A game where everyone, from football enthusiasts and esports professionals to casual gamers, feels right at home. A game with fair game design where player experience truly matters.

Picture your name in the credits of that game, the game that changed the industry. Picture your name next to the very same people who have listened to your bold ideas, encouraged you, and supported you along the way.

Envision that you are the first Senior UI Programmer at GOALS - developing the user interface of the world's best football game.

Now, take this vision - and bring it to life!
Your impact

As our Senior UI Programmer, you will be the champion of our UI system, making sure that it's robust and scalable allowing for fast iterations and short release cycles. But of course, we don't expect you to do this on your own. You will have the trust and mandate to drive this forward, together with the engineering team to help you succeed.

Leveraging the best features of C++, UMG, and Unreal Engine 5, you will be a key player in making the GOALS universe fun and accessible for all our players. In close collaboration with artists and UI scripters, your mission will be to create high-quality responsive UI, which is vital to give our players an outstanding gaming experience.

We aim to create stunning, performant interfaces with the most modern tools, and as a Senior UI Programmer, we hope that you want to challenge existing truisms in game development together with us. Pushing the boundaries of what a football game can become.

We're building a game for everyone, cross-play, and multiplayer-focused. In your role, you will tackle questions such as:

How do we create a high-quality responsive UI to ensure that our game holds high quality and performance for several platforms?

How can we utilize UI Development on Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints, C++, and UMG, considering quality, performance, and development speed?

What makes a state-of-the-art UI system - and how do we get there?

Focus Areas

- Take prototype design ideas, and iterate through trial and error to evolve them into fluent, easy-to-use UI features, effects, and tools
- Design, write, debug and refine UI systems and underlying architecture
- Focus on both performance and responsiveness for different devices
- Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers in the development and delivery of features

Who you are

We’re creating a game for everyone, and our studio should always represent that with a diverse team.

In this role, we are looking for you who have previous experience working with UI programming for at least one PC game. You enjoy having the freedom and space to use your experience and skills to explore new solutions, challenge exciting choices and improve how we develop our game.

To succeed in this role, we also believe that you enjoy working closely with people from different crafts and can translate rough ideas into concrete implementations.

On paper, we believe that you have
- 5+ years of professional experience working as a UI Programmer, or similar, in the games industry
- Previously worked on at least one PC game. Console game experience is meritorious
- Skills in Unreal Engine, UMG, C++ Programming, and OO Design
- Good understanding of common UI design patterns such as MVC and MVVM

What's in it for you?

At GOALS we are all about encouraging creativity, curiosity, and innovation. We want a culture where people feel safe to be themselves, and where we support and treat each other with respect.

We empower flexibility and believe in a balanced workplace. We know that the best solutions will be created when everyone feels they can choose how and when to work. As an inclusive and international company, you decide where to work (hybrid remote/remote/onsite) and when to do the job.

We value our team and every individual is equally important to us. We offer great benefits that you can read more about here (https://careers.goals.co/pages/benefits)

About the Employment
The position is permanent, starting with 6 months of probationary employment. You can work from our Stockholm office, fully remote or hybrid. It is important that you are able to communicate unhindered in verbal/written English and that you can work in a timezone close to Stockholm (CET 0-3 hours).

For this position, we do not offer relocation assistance.

Join us!

GOALS is all about dreams coming true and we know this will only be possible when we have people within our team that add different skills and perspectives to what we’re doing.

From research, we know that women and members of other under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs when they feel like they don't meet every single qualification, even though they are suitable for the position.

Do you have the passion? We're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive studio environment and strongly encourage you to apply even though you don’t feel you tick every single box.

For this role we would like you to include:

- LinkedIn profile, CV, or any other document that shows your experience

About GOALS

GOALS is a Stockholm-based AAA game studio founded in 2021.

Recognizing there wasn’t a fast-paced, competitive, multiplayer-focused football game on the market we decided to change that. Let’s bring football into esports for real! Bridging the gap between the real world and the digital, we’re building something more that is more than a game.

Humble in the way we work; embracing that skilled and passionate people are the heart and core of our studio. Not humble in our objective; creating the best football game in the world.

We are making a game that is more competitive, more inclusive, and more fun to play by utilizing the skill and talent within our team. Today we're 30 people developing GOALS: the AAA gameplay-first football game. Free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready.