Senior Gameplay Software Engineer

Description

Senior Gameplay Software Engineer 

Netherrealm Studios, a division of WB Games Inc., seeks a Senior Gameplay Software Engineer to join the team behind Batman: Arkham City Lockdown creating game systems for exciting, cutting-edge action games on iPhone and iPad.

As a member of our studio's game engineering team you will work closely with engineers, designers and artists to develop gameplay for our next AAA title. As a Senior Gameplay Software Engineer, your domain will span as much of the codebase as your skills and interests dictate, as you design and implement extensions to existing systems and pivotal new game systems to meet the needs of our talented in-house team of content developers.

In addition, as part of our studio's highly collaborative engineering group, you will have opportunities to share your expertise on the development and implementation of systems across the entire codebase.

This job will require collaboration with the rest of our engineering team on issues of technical design. You will also work closely with other engineers and content development experts on implementing and refining systems to meet our designers' vision. The Software Engineer will also work with their team's production staff to help develop realistic schedules and identify all dependencies.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, author, maintain and refactor game systems that meet all design, technical and schedule requirements.
  
• Work closely with QA and your technical leadership to ensure the stability and accuracy of game systems by identifying, communicating and resolving defects.
  
• Author, review and provide feedback on technical and end-user documentation of game systems.
  
• Collaborate with technical leadership and other engineers to help establish overall technical design and architecture.
  
• Collaborate with designers and content creators to brainstorm solutions that satisfy design and content requirements.
  
• Work closely with the production staff in building and maintaining realistic schedules and identifying dependencies.
  
• Coordinate with QA and leads to ensure successful roll out of new features to the team and establish testing and maintenance of systems.
  

• B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  
• 8+ years professional C/C++ programming.
  
• Experience developing complex game-play systems for a published game. 
  
• Worked on production game title from concept to ship.
  
• Experience with gameplay scripting (Lua, Python, Unrealscript, etc).
  
• Experience with Unreal Engine programming (preferred).
  
• Experience with XCode and Objective-C programming (preferred).
  
• Experience with the release process including working on systems related to localization, certification and asset management. (preferred).
  
• Experience developing first or third person action games (preferred).
  
• Experience working on in-game economies for resource-management-based gameplay (preferred).
  
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and content creators to develop robust and fun game-play. 
  
• Ability to easily communicate technical topics with both engineers and non-technical people alike.
  
• Ability to openly discuss and review technical proposals, requirements, designs, algorithms, source code, and reference documents with engineers, content creators and managers.
  
• Thorough knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts.
  
• Basic knowledge of commonly used design patterns.
  
• Familiarity with version control (CVS, SVN, Perforce, etc.).
  
• Familiarity with Microsoft Visual C++ development environment.
  
• Creative, focused, results-oriented, self-motivated, resourceful problem-solver with excellent debugging skills.
  
• Ability to work well in a team development environment with strong communication skills.
  
• Strong desire to build industry-leading game systems and ship the highest quality AAA games.

The Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran's status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.