Lead Gameplay Programmer

About Arrowhead

Arrowhead Game Studios is located in Stockholm, Sweden and we are a game developer focusing on creating immersive games for Console and PC. We have a team of ambitious, friendly and fun-loving developers challenging the game industry, while aiming to deliver an entertaining and high quality gaming experience. We’re most known for our co-op games and are the developers behind Magicka, The Showdown Effect, Gauntlet and Helldivers.

Position

The Gameplay Team (a.k.a. 'Spielteam 6') consists of a group of 4 enthusiastic programmers / coders. We work closely with artist, designers and other programmers and have a great impact in the overall gameplay experience of our project. As a Lead Gameplay Programmer you are tasked with the overall management and (personal) development of our Gameplay Programmers, choosing tech solutions as well as implementing the tech/gameplay yourself. 

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

• Overall management and (personal) development of a team of 4 Gameplay Programmers
• Co-operate with Designers and Creative Directors to translate game design into engaging gameplay features and tasking these to our Gameplay Programmers 
• 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

Your qualification

• You have 5 or more years of experience in game development and have experienced at least one full development cycle of a shipped AAA-title
• You have actual experience as a lead / manager of a team of programmers
• Excellent C/C++ skills
• Hands on experience with multiplayer game programming, ideally in a peer-to-peer environment
• 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

Will be a plus

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

Additional details

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