Unreal Engine Engineer (Hybrid)

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Posted 15 June 2023
Salary Negotiable
LocationLeeds
Job type Permanent
DisciplineGames Programming
Reference19109
Contact NameMatty Kidsley

Job description

Just Add Water are searching for an Unreal Engine Engineer to join their Leeds based studio. You’ll be bringing your passion for programming, and love of collaboration to a growing studio, working on an exciting console project.

With a history of working on renowned IP titles Just Add Water develop high quality games and content for VR and next generation hardware. Their dev team is as diverse as the games they make, and the studio is proud of their ethos to champion everyone in their team, in all their creative glory.

Just Add Water is an award-winning studio with a catalogue of critically acclaimed titles to their name, including Sniper Elite VR, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, OddWorld: New'n'Tasty, Dr Who: Edge of Reality, Volume Coda, Micro Machines, Ice Age and Gravity Crash.

Your responsibilities…
  • Working as part of a team to program game systems
  • Implementing gameplay to studio specifications
  • Debugging the game to ensure that the game runs smoothly
  • Solving technical problems
The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…
  • Excellent knowledge of C++
  • 3+ years of game programming experience using Unreal
  • Contributed to at least one game in a professional studio
  • Be able to write high quality, well commented, source code
  • Have a familiarity with source controls systems such as Perforce and PlasticSCM
  • Experience on developing titles for PlayStation and Xbox consoles
  • Desirable but not essential…
  • Ability to assess tasks/timings to assist with project planning and scheduling
  • Experience with debugging other people's code