Lead Programmer - Robocraft 2
Freejam
- Portsmouth
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Planning the technical road map
- Work with your team to plan, schedule and deliver team commitments
- Establishing good practices and participating in all phases of software development – including design, implementation, testing, code review, delivery and documentation.
- Lead and manage the day to day running of the code team, conducting regular 1:1’s and supporting them in their career development
- Support your team in the implementation of reliable, maintainable and bug-free code
- Leading a team of talented programmers, providing technical guidance, mentorship and support
- Develops technical design specifications for complex projects and implements them
- Responsible for the technical direction of the project
- Collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams to define technical requirements, project goals, and overall project scope
- Hire, manage and work effectively with freelance outsource engineers / teams
- Perform code reviews with the team to ensure good code quality
- Good knowledge of Unity 3D, C# and ideally ECS DOTS
- Proven leadership experience with strong people management skills
- Confident in working with the existing codebase and getting quickly up to speed
- Enthusiastic about the potential of generative AI in coding
- Exposure to modern infrastructure technologies (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes)
- Experience with modern software development tooling (Perforce, Git, Gtlab, Jenkins)
- Worked on at least 2 shipped games from concept to launch as a Lead Programmer