Gameplay Programmer

Gameplay Programming at Arrowhead
As a Gameplay Programmer, you work closely with artist, designers and other programmers and have a great impact in the overall gameplay experience of our project.

Your contribution
As a Gameplay Programmer, your main tasks and responsibilities are:

- Co-create engaging gameplay features;
- Implement, maintain and take part in designing game systems like combat, objectives, items, controls and interaction;
- Aid fellow coders in verifying solutions, advise on sound technical alternatives and choose the right technical solutions;
- Prototype ideas to test validity of features, identify technical opportunities and obstacles and promote coding quality;
- Build high quality, well-structured solutions with memory, performance and network stability taken into account;
- Regularly play test and provide feedback on the game as a whole.


Our requirements
Are you a Gameplay Programmer with the following experience?

- You have 3 or more years of experience in game development and you have shipped a (AAA-)title;
- Excellent C/C++ skills;
- Hands on experience with multiplayer game programming, ideally in a peer-to-peer environment would be a great additional to your experience;
- Able to create dynamic systems that interact with each other in an emergent way;
- Great familiarity of game technologies such as physics, animation, artificial intelligence and the ability to use them to create fun and emergent gameplay;
- A solid 3D math foundation in linear algebra, vectors and matrices;
- Good understanding of kinaesthetic appeal;
- Good English communication skills (verbal and written) is mandatory.


Bonus qualifications
It would be of added value (but not mandatory) if you have:

- Experience working with character scripting, animation state machines, animation blending and similar techniques;
- Familiarity with component-based programming and peer-to-peer networking.


Practical information
Scope: Full-time, 40 hours per week. We offer a permanent position and relocation aid for the right candidate.

Location: Stockholm

If you think that this position matches your background and skills, we would love to hear from you. We ask that your application always include relevant work samples or a link to your portfolio.