Senior Gameplay Engineer - RuneScape Dragonwilds

Location:

Cambridge, UK - (Remote available within the UK with team onsite days in the Cambridge office approx. 4 times per year)

Are you an experienced Gameplay Programmer who enjoys collaborating with designers, animators and the wider team to help build a rich immersive world on a brand-new game with a hugely popular IP?

As a Senior Gameplay Programmer on our new open world survival crafting game, currently in early access and being developed in UE5; You will utilise your expertise with C++ to help your team to create and implement complex gameplay features for this new multiplayer experience.

This is a hugely impactful role within the team where you will work closely with peers and the wider production and development team to innovate and create a deeply connected and exciting gameplay experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Create, maintain and update a wide variety of gameplay features.
• Select the best technical solutions, architectures and pipelines for each task.
• Collaborate with designers and artists to form strike teams with strong outputs.
• Test, debug, profile and optimise the title to deliver polished games.
• Identify risks and opportunities presented during the development of the game, providing solutions to resolve potentially complex problems.
• Support, mentor and share best practice with more junior engineers and your peers.

What we're looking for:

• Expertise in designing and implementing complex gameplay features for a multiplayer game.
• Strong understanding of game design and a player-focused mindset.
• In-depth knowledge of C++ with an ability to apply this experience with other programming languages (c#, python, etc).
• Proven experience working closely with non-engineering stakeholders and communicating technical solutions in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Knowledgeable in profiling and optimising code.
• Proven ability to design complex systems using appropriate patterns, solving architectural and system-level problems.
• Good knowledge of source code repository usage (Perforce or similar).
• Demonstrable ability to mentor others and contributing to the team's continuous improvement by sharing and refining best practices.
• At ease with independence and ownership, allowing yourself to co-organise your own strike team and allocate resources intelligently.
• Experience working in UE4 or UE5 C++.

What we offer:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
• Life Insurance.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
• Flexible working hours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!