Lead Gameplay Programmer

Are you an expert in understanding production, a problem-solving programmer with strong leader and communication skills? Then this might just be the job for you! Starbreeze is now looking for a Lead Gameplay Programmer to join our kick-ass team in Stockholm.

As a Lead Gameplay Programmer you will lead a team of Gameplay Programmers and it’s your responsibility to drive them to reach agreed milestones, with the highest quality possible, and within the goals scoped by production. Your interest lies in leadership as well as production and you are experienced with all principles of gameplay programming.

You will work closely with designers and know that any gameplay implementation needs to function in a multiplayer co-op game. Something you make into reality with your excellence in scheduling and delegating tasks.

Job Tasks:

• You are an organized and good leader, strategic, and thoughtful in all interactions with the team
• Manage communications and provide feedback to gameplay programmers
• Analyzing design, break it down into gameplay programming tasks and schedule them
• From received game design you foresee any production dependencies, be it art, sound, network etc. and communicate this back to producers
• Help with gameplay programming whenever the need is required
• Quality assure gameplay code
• Manage communication with other departments
• You have at least 5 years of professional game development.
• You have prior experience working as a programmer on at least two shipped titles and you have experience with scripting languages, such as LUA, JavaScript and Python.
• You Are familiar with AI, physics, animation and gameplay code in general and have a keen sense of what makes a game fun.
• You possess excellent communication skills in English, both spoken and written.

To be successful in this position you are:

• Able to lead internal team, communicate well, being proactive and self-driven
• An expert in understanding of production and are able to problem-solve, schedule, communicate and monitor tasks
• Great with time estimations, assessments and prioritizing
• Familiar with multiplayer games
• Familiar with performance profiling and debugging
• Comfortable with git, and familiar with other version control systems
• Understanding of the challenges and possibilities of modern console hardware (PS4 and XBOX One)

Portfolio:

Your portfolio must be provided through a website Still reading? Good because here comes the good part of this job ad:

We offer you a position at a dynamic and rapidly growing company where we live and die by gameplay. While we grow, we want you to grow with us and to evolve in your professional development and make our games kick-ass within the gaming industry.

Sounds good? Then we can’t wait to meet you. We recommend you to apply as soon as possible; selection and interviews are held continuously.

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