Aardvark Swift are delighted to be supporting in their search for a Senior Gameplay Programmer to work on their incredibly successful title Adopt Me; the most commercially successful studio developing within Roblox!
As a senior member of their engineering team, you will engineer and lead complex projects, help define engineering standards, and mentor others. Experience with Roblox isn't necessary and they would be enthused to speak to people with experience on different platforms.
Your role and responsibilities will include...
Writing excellent quality Lua code
Reducing technical debt and define best practices
Project managing complex initiatives spanning multiple peers and teams
Leading from start to finish, including assessing risk, setting goals, following up with collaborators, and ensuring timely delivery
Being a team player, including mentoring teammates, leading code reviews, documenting features, fixing bugs, and cleaning up old code
Implementing game behaviour that emphasises intuitive, responsive, and delightful UX
Being creative. Brainstorm, design, and pitch gameplay updates
Understanding the full game dev process, and flexibly filling gaps. For example, you will need to wireframe UIs, tweak particles, position/resize art assets, and more.
Collaborating with your cross-disciplinary peers
Communicating clearly and empathetically both synchronously and asynchronously
Testing thoroughly, deploying to millions of players with minimal bugs
The skills and experience you'll need...
5+ years of professional development programming in the videogame industry
Proficiency in Lua or a similar scripting language
Credits on a complete title or shipped key features in a live service game
An understanding of the human elements of software engineering: empathy, compassion, and patience.
Demonstrable curiosity for learning new tools, technologies, and ways of working.
Comfortable with math, physics, and computer science theory.
Creativity, a good eye for design.
Strong work ethic. You take initiative and thrive, even with minimal guidance.
Strong problem solving mentality
Organisational and prioritisation mindset
Great written and verbal communication in English
Passion for playing and making games.
You value diversity and want to work alongside talented people from marginalised groups.
