Senior Engine Programmer

About Remedy Entertainment

Storytellers at heart, Remedy creates cinematic blockbuster action games that break media boundaries and push the envelope of 3D character technology and visual effects. We believe the Remedy name is a seal of quality, packed with iconic characters, narrative and stylized gameplay. Remedy’s games include Death Rally, Max Payne, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Alan Wake, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, and Quantum Break.

Position

While working as a Senior Engine Programmer, you will be working with highly passionate team members to design, develop and deliver new features to our games. We are constantly seeking new ways to make our games better and we value everyone’s opinion which means that you can see your ideas to get into our games.

In this role, you will be working with the core functionality of the Northlight engine such as entity systems, physics, asset streaming, resource management, scripting and core gameplay systems. You will get to design and implement performance-critical core engine features and provide a good developer experience by equipping your systems with great debugging tools. You will build performance and memory profiling tools for managing content budgets, and implement support for in-game editing and visualization tools. In addition, you will create new content pipelines for efficient asset authoring and loading, for example by defining new data and serialization formats.

As a member of our team, we also expect you to contribute to the overall performance and memory characteristics of the engine and its API design.

Your qualification

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in gameplay or game engine programming
• Experience in working on various platforms
• Strong background in C++
• Experience with multithreaded programming
• Strong mathematical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
• Prior experience of working with proprietary game engines
• Passion for playing and developing exceptional games

Will be a plus

• Experience shipping AAA game titles
• Experience with an Entity-Component-Systems (ECS) framework
• Degree in Computer Science

What we offer

• Yes, you get to move to Finland where the quality of life is exceptional and cost of living is affordable
• Moving to a new country can be intimidating, but our relocation service is there every step of the way to take care of you. You can concentrate on work, while we’ll take care of everything else
• You will be offered competitive compensation with a bonus system
• We work hard, but at Remedy we believe in a great work life balance. Happy people work better. In Finland you get up to 5 weeks of paid vacation every year. This is on top of public holidays and other special occasions
• Above all, you get to work on awesome, unique video games that the global audience is interested in at a studio where your input is valued. We try our hardest to keep our team sizes and the work load sensible, so your contributions feel valuable