Senior Game Programmer

In this role, you can expect to:

• Architect and Maintain Gameplay Systems: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable gameplay systems by writing clean code, conducting reviews, and collaborating with designers.
• Create New and Maintain Existing Tools for Designers and Artists: Develop, integrate, and improve custom tools and editors to empower designers and artists and enhance their content creation workflows.
• Participate in Development Scheduling: Collaborate with producers and project managers to estimate tasks, create development schedules, and monitor progress to ensure milestones are met.
• Build Screens, Widgets, and Other UI Elements: Architect and implement extensible, responsive UI elements like screens and widgets in close collaboration with the design team to realize their vision.
• Review Feature Designs and Provide Input on Costs and Possible Alternatives: Review feature designs and wireframes to provide technical feedback on feasibility, costs, and potential implementation alternatives.
• Work Closely in a Highly Collaborative and Agile Environment: Actively participate in an agile environment, collaborating closely with producers, artists, designers, and other programmers to integrate systems seamlessly.
• Build and Support Tools that Improve Workflows: Identify workflow inefficiencies across disciplines and build tools to automate tasks and streamline pipelines.
• Game Performance Optimization: Conduct performance analysis and profiling to optimize rendering pipelines, animations, and other interactions for overall game performance.
• Resolve Game Issues: Troubleshoot and resolve specific game performance issues, including those related to profiling, memory, CPU, run-time, and load times.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Experience & Track Record: You'll need a Bachelor’s in CS (or equivalent experience), over 8 years in software development, and a proven history of shipping multiple online games from prototype to launch on online PC, console, or mobile.
• Expert Programming Skills: You must be an expert-level in C#, along with strong experience using source control systems like GIT or Perforce.
• Engine & Systems Architecture: Deep proficiency with Unity is required, and multiple game engines is nice to have, plus an expert ability to architect complex gameplay systems (e.g., AI, multiplayer, controls, RPG systems).
• Performance Optimization: You should have proven experience profiling, troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance across all platforms, tackling issues with memory, CPU, and rendering.
• 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.

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.