Flying Wild Hog are looking to add a Tools Programmer to their team of top-tier and dedicated developers who make their studio a creative and devoted workplace. Flying Wild Hog only work on games they believe in, sharing their excitement and fully committing to the project is their recipe for producing extraordinary results.

The studio fosters creative thinking and likes the challenge the norm, they’re willing to take risks and encourage devs to be brave in their approach to overcoming challenges within a culture that’s geared to learning from mistakes and fully embracing success! Resulting in a working environment which values self-reliance and avoids micro-management.

As a Tools Programmer your responsibilities will be…

• Analysing, debugging, and improving existing tools, plugins, and testing frameworks
• Defining needs and building new tools and optimizing existing ones
• Helping to solve technical challenges by maintaining regular communication with the content teams (Artist, Level Designers)
• Testing, debugging, profiling, and optimizing tools implementations
• Creating and maintaining high-quality documentation
• Actively attending to code review

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…

• 3+ years of professional software development experience or production of games for consoles or PC
• Skills in writing UIs with a toolkit such as wxWidgets, WPF, QT, Slate, Windows Forms, UMG
• Great skills in C/C++/C#
• Experience with UE4 would be a plus
• Ability to write solid, reliable, efficient code
• Able to work efficiently under tight deadlines
• Strong English language skills
• Open-minded attitude with a team mentality
• Strong work ethic and self-motivated
• Enthusiastic about playing and making video games

The perks and benefits on offer include fully financed private medical care, really flexible hours around a core of 11am – 4pm and a fitprofit card.