Principal Game Development Leader

Unlock your potential as a Principal Game Developer with this exciting opportunity to shape and deliver robust, scalable, and high-performance game systems.

This role is responsible for architecting and implementing complex technical solutions, ensuring seamless cross-platform functionality while balancing technical requirements across multiple stakeholders. As a key contributor to our team's technical excellence, you will drive innovation through best practices, technical mentorship, and high-level problem-solving.

• Lead Development of Large-Scale Projects: Make strategic technical decisions that align with the company's broader objectives, such as designing and optimizing backend architectures for concurrent multiplayer systems.
• Establish Technical Standards: Promote modern development practices like microservices for backend, modular design, and multi-threaded programming to prevent race conditions.
• Oversee Architectural Practices: Ensure high-quality outcomes by implementing quality gates in CI/CD pipelines to enforce automated testing and performance benchmarks.
• Act as a Technical Authority: Advise and influence multiple projects by integrating cutting-edge technologies, such as advanced rendering techniques or transitioning to Unreal Engine 5 for its Lumen, Nanite, and RayTracing capabilities.
• Provide Expert Technical Support: Serve as a key consultant for complex challenges like resolving severe performance bottlenecks or ensuring seamless cross-platform compatibility.
• Drive Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Align technical direction with market trends to attract AAA publishers and maintain industry leadership.
• Deliver Technical Training and Mentorship: Identify industry trends and skill gaps to inform hiring strategies and professional development initiatives.

• Solid Experience in Software Development: Working with C++
• Proven Ability to Architect and Develop Scalable Systems: In Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary engines.
• Identify and Escalate Potential Technical Risks Early: Ensuring smooth development and avoiding major blockers.
• Experience Optimizing Multiplayer Architectures: Including networking, replication, and client-server communication.
• Strong Expertise in Performance Optimization: Including CPU/GPU profiling and debugging multi-threaded code.
• Ability to Design and Implement Developer Tools: To enhance workflow efficiency.
• Experience with UI Development: Ensuring high-performance rendering and user-friendly interfaces.
• Solid Understanding of Rendering Pipelines: Shader development and performance optimizations in modern game engines, such as Metal, Vulkan, DX11/12.
• Rendering Profiling and Debugging Expertise: Using tools like RenderDoc, Unreal Insights, and Nvidia Aftermath for performance analysis and optimization.
• Experience with Console Development: Gen8/Gen9 – PS4, Xbox One, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, including platform optimizations.
• Expertise in Managing Complex Version Control Workflows: Across multiple teams and projects, ensuring seamless integration and code quality.
• Strong Knowledge of Version Control Systems: Managing large-scale collaborative development environments.
• Deep Experience with Physics Engines: Implementing and optimizing physics-based interactions for game mechanics.

• Solid Experience in Game Development: With a strong focus on C++.
• Experience Defining and Driving Technological Innovation: Within the gaming industry, influencing trends and best practices at a high level.
• Ability to Engage with External Partners: Aligning technical solutions with business goals and fostering long-term collaboration.
• Proven Ability to Align Technical Decisions: With business objectives, ensuring engineering efforts support long-term company growth.
• Expertise in Modular Architecture: Ensuring efficient, reusable, and adaptable game components.
• Advanced Understanding of Linear Algebra: Game math, and shaders, applying mathematical concepts to optimize graphics and physics simulations.
• Experience with GAS (Gameplay Ability System): Designing and optimizing complex gameplay mechanics in Unreal Engine.
• Deep Experience with Physics Engines: Implementing and optimizing physics-based interactions for game mechanics.
• Familiarity with Machine Learning and Procedural AI: Leveraging AI-driven systems for content generation and game mechanics.

Join us in shaping the future of gaming and take your career to the next level.

• Opportunity to Work on High-Performance Games: Collaborate with experienced professionals to create engaging and immersive gaming experiences.
• Continuous Learning and Growth: Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and innovations in the gaming industry.
• Diverse and Dynamic Work Environment: Join a talented team of individuals passionate about gaming and committed to excellence.
• Competitive Salary and Benefits: Enjoy a comprehensive compensation package that rewards your hard work and dedication.

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