Game Programmer

In this role, you can expect to:

• Code Craftsmanship: Write, Test, and Ship Quality: You'll write, test, and maintain clean, efficient, and reusable code for diverse gameplay features or robust UI elements, adhering to our high coding standards and best practices.
• Team Synergy: Collaborate, Review, and Grow Together: Actively participate in code reviews, share knowledge, and contribute to a supportive, highly collaborative, and agile development environment.
• Problem Solver: Debug, Optimize, and Innovate: Debug and resolve complex software issues, providing effective and lasting solutions that enhance our products.
• Clear Communication: Document, Update, and Inform: Maintain clear and concise documentation for your code and project-related materials, while effectively communicating progress, challenges, and updates to the team and stakeholders.
• Continuous Learner: Adapt, Evolve, and Master: Embrace continuous learning, improve your technical skills, and stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies.
• Tooling Excellence: Empower Workflows, Enhance Creativity: Build and support powerful tools that improve the workflows of artists, designers, and other programmers, integrating them seamlessly into existing content creation pipelines.
• Strategic Impact: Design, Deliver, and Drive Features: Review feature designs, provide valuable input on costs and alternatives, and efficiently manage tasks to meet project deadlines and milestones.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Experience & Track Record: You'll need a Bachelor’s in CS (or equivalent) combined with over 3 years in software development in online gaming (PC, console or mobile).
• Solid Programming Skills: You must highly skilled in C#, along with strong experience using source control systems like GIT or Perforce.
• Engine & Systems Architecture: Solid proficiency with Unity is required, and multiple game engines is nice to have.
• Mobile & UI Development: Experience in mobile development for both Android and iOS is needed, along with familiarity with UI frameworks such as Unity GUI or NGUI.
• Team & Workflow: You must be a strong communicator and problem-solver who thrives in an Agile or Kanban environment, able to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Communication skills: Strong communication skills in French and English.
• Performance Optimization: As a bonus you could have experience profiling, troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance across all platforms, tackling issues with memory, CPU, and rendering.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
• Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.