LEAD PROGRAMMER

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We are looking for an experienced Tech-Lead to join our team. The person in this position will be responsible for organizing and overseeing a team of talented programmers in our current and future projects. He should have the ability to shape a technical vision and work with the programmers to turn it into reality. He should also be as good of a programmer as a communicator, have superior management skills and a very solid coding background. The Tech Lead will directly help to define the course of development during all its stages.

Responsibilities:

• Guiding and overseeing our programmers as well as mentoring them
• Coordinating tasks and creating guidelines, including expansive documentation
• Establishing quality benchmarks and demonstrating knowledge
• Remain hands-on with the code
• Playing an active part in the recruitment of new candidates
• Responsible for tools that go along with features; ensure they are useable and appropriate for artists, games, and the engine
• Be forward thinking – able to keep up-to-date on current techniques, research, graphics data, hardware, etc. and integrate them into development

Requirements:

• Min. 5 years in games-development
• Exceptional C++ programming skills and experience with multi-threaded programming techniques
• At least two PS4/Xbox One/WiiU/PS3/X360 games shipped, at least one while being involved during the entire development cycle
• Passion for mathematics and complex algorithms
• Good understanding and practical experience of optimization
• Experience managing and leading a team of programmers with various experience levels
• Outstanding verbal and written interpersonal communication skills
• Fluent English

Not required, but a huge plus:

• Additional management qualifications
• Extensive SPU and threading experience
• Substantial DX11, DX12, GNM or Vulkan experience
• Familiarity with a wide range of graphical rendering techniques
• Experience working on all aspects for gameplay programming
• Console experience on multiple major platforms
• Extensive optimization experience with Razor, GPAD, PIX and Spark (and any other relevant profilers)
• Unreal 4 experience

Reporting Lines:

• You will directly report to our Technical Director
• Regular communication with our producers

Assessment:

1. CV
2. Skype interview (case-by-case)
3. Test-Task (ca. 8 hours, can be spread on two/three days, we will look more at the approach than at the result)*
4. Ideally on-site interview if possible + presentation of previous work

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