Lead Programmer

Company Description

Smoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans. SGI is fearless in creating IP and boldly partners with renowned brands to develop a wide range of world-class, immersive titles and interactive experiences that resonate with strategy gamers worldwide and entertain millions of casual players every day.

Job Overview:

As a Lead Programmer at Smoking Gun Interactive (SGI), you’re a talented and driven person who enjoys working on great projects. You have experience in a variety of areas of game development and are able and willing to work on any area of game programming needed, with a focus on full-stack development experience. You’re experienced in mentoring and training programmers and are responsible for the oversight and management of a team of programmers.

*Whilst this position is being offered on a remote basis, we are only able to consider applicants who are currently located in BC, and ideally within the greater Vancouver area

Company DescriptionSmoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans. SGI is fearless in creating IP and boldly partners with renowned brands to develop a wide ...

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with the Technical Director to establish a unified technology vision for the project including writing and reviewing technical design documents;
• Produce high-quality, efficient, clean, and modular code;
• Collect and document users' requirements and develop logical specifications;
• Research, evaluate and synthesize technical information to design, develop and test computer-based systems;
• Develop data, process and network models to optimize architecture and to evaluate the performance and reliability of designs;
• Plan, design and co-ordinate the development, integration and operation of computer-based systems;
• Assess, test, troubleshoot, document, upgrade and develop maintenance procedures for applications software;
• Lead and co-ordinate teams in the development of software and integrated information systems, process control software and other embedded software control systems;
• Show proactivity in identifying tasks/problems that need tackling, outside of known scheduled work, from refactoring to bug fixing;
• Be able to go above and beyond in their daily tasks as required;
• Provide mentorship and training for programmers to create an atmosphere of cooperation and learning;
• Provide and accept feedback on all aspects of code quality (performance, readability, testability, design);
• Demonstrate forward thinking in regards to what impact design and implementation decisions will have on the overall project during each phase of development;
• Work with Production in the creation and risk-management of project milestone goals and schedules;
• Coordinate the hiring, supervising and managing of other members of the team.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• 5+ years’ experience as a programmer in the game industry and or related field;
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent;
• Shipped at least one game as a senior or lead programmer;
• 3+ years’ experience using Unreal Engine 4 or 5;
• Passion for playing and creating innovative games – you consider yourself a gamer;
• A natural affinity for being strongly self-motivated and an independent worker;
• Expert working knowledge of C++, Standard Library and Object Oriented Design;
• Strong understanding of general and 3D math, statistics and probability;
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, proven ability to tackle hard problems in creative ways;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• A positive attitude with a desire to work within a team environment towards a common goal;
• Impressive ability to estimate work load and execute on the work in the time estimated;
• Experience mentoring other programmers.

It would also be helpful if you had:

• Managing programmer direct reports;
• Any of the following languages, C#, Java, Lua, HLSL/Cg shaders;
• Unreal Engine 4 or 5;
• Mobile: iOS, Android;
• Test Driven Development;
• Visual Studio, Perforce;
• Unit testing and TDD for server development;
• C# server environments, AWS, Azure, GCP;
• Running a live server environment and supporting operations.

Company Description

Smoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans. SGI is fearless in creating IP and boldly partners with renowned brands to develop a wide range of world-class, immersive titles and interactive experiences that resonate with strategy gamers worldwide and entertain millions of casual players every day.

Job Overview:

As a Lead Programmer at Smoking Gun Interactive (SGI), you’re a talented and driven person who enjoys working on great projects. You have experience in a variety of areas of game development and are able and willing to work on any area of game programming needed, with a focus on full-stack development experience. You’re experienced in mentoring and training programmers and are responsible for the oversight and management of a team of programmers.

*Whilst this position is being offered on a remote basis, we are only able to consider applicants who are currently located in BC, and ideally within the greater Vancouver area

Company DescriptionSmoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans. SGI is fearless in creating IP and boldly partners with renowned brands to develop a wide ...

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with the Technical Director to establish a unified technology vision for the project including writing and reviewing technical design documents;
• Produce high-quality, efficient, clean, and modular code;
• Collect and document users' requirements and develop logical specifications;
• Research, evaluate and synthesize technical information to design, develop and test computer-based systems;
• Develop data, process and network models to optimize architecture and to evaluate the performance and reliability of designs;
• Plan, design and co-ordinate the development, integration and operation of computer-based systems;
• Assess, test, troubleshoot, document, upgrade and develop maintenance procedures for applications software;
• Lead and co-ordinate teams in the development of software and integrated information systems, process control software and other embedded software control systems;
• Show proactivity in identifying tasks/problems that need tackling, outside of known scheduled work, from refactoring to bug fixing;
• Be able to go above and beyond in their daily tasks as required;
• Provide mentorship and training for programmers to create an atmosphere of cooperation and learning;
• Provide and accept feedback on all aspects of code quality (performance, readability, testability, design);
• Demonstrate forward thinking in regards to what impact design and implementation decisions will have on the overall project during each phase of development;
• Work with Production in the creation and risk-management of project milestone goals and schedules;
• Coordinate the hiring, supervising and managing of other members of the team.

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• 5+ years’ experience as a programmer in the game industry and or related field;
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent;
• Shipped at least one game as a senior or lead programmer;
• 3+ years’ experience using Unreal Engine 4 or 5;
• Passion for playing and creating innovative games – you consider yourself a gamer;
• A natural affinity for being strongly self-motivated and an independent worker;
• Expert working knowledge of C++, Standard Library and Object Oriented Design;
• Strong understanding of general and 3D math, statistics and probability;
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, proven ability to tackle hard problems in creative ways;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• A positive attitude with a desire to work within a team environment towards a common goal;
• Impressive ability to estimate work load and execute on the work in the time estimated;
• Experience mentoring other programmers.

It would also be helpful if you had:

• Managing programmer direct reports;
• Any of the following languages, C#, Java, Lua, HLSL/Cg shaders;
• Unreal Engine 4 or 5;
• Mobile: iOS, Android;
• Test Driven Development;
• Visual Studio, Perforce;
• Unit testing and TDD for server development;
• C# server environments, AWS, Azure, GCP;
• Running a live server environment and supporting operations.