[Hiring] Lead Programmer @Smoking Gun Interactive

Role Description

As a Lead Programmer at Smoking Gun Interactive (SGI), you’re a talented and driven person who enjoys working on great projects. You have experience in a variety of areas of game development and are able and willing to work on any area of game programming needed, with a focus on full-stack development experience. You’re experienced in mentoring and training programmers and are responsible for the oversight and management of a team of programmers.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with the Technical Director to establish a unified technology vision for the project including writing and reviewing technical design documents;
• Produce high-quality, efficient, clean, and modular code;
• Collect and document users' requirements and develop logical specifications;
• Research, evaluate and synthesize technical information to design, develop and test computer-based systems;
• Develop data, process and network models to optimize architecture and to evaluate the performance and reliability of designs;
• Plan, design and co-ordinate the development, integration and operation of computer-based systems;
• Assess, test, troubleshoot, document, upgrade and develop maintenance procedures for applications software;
• Lead and co-ordinate teams in the development of software and integrated information systems, process control software and other embedded software control systems;
• Show proactivity in identifying tasks/problems that need tackling, outside of known scheduled work, from refactoring to bug fixing;
• Be able to go above and beyond in their daily tasks as required;
• Provide mentorship and training for programmers to create an atmosphere of cooperation and learning;
• Provide and accept feedback on all aspects of code quality (performance, readability, testability, design);
• Demonstrate forward thinking in regards to what impact design and implementation decisions will have on the overall project during each phase of development;
• Work with Production in the creation and risk-management of project milestone goals and schedules;
• Coordinate the hiring, supervising and managing of other members of the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a programmer in the game industry and or related field;
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent;
• Passion for playing and creating innovative games – you consider yourself a gamer;
• Shipped at least one game as a senior or lead programmer;
• A natural affinity for being strongly self-motivated and an independent worker;
• Expert working knowledge of C++, Standard Library and Object Oriented Design;
• Strong understanding of general and 3D math, statistics and probability;
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, proven ability to tackle hard problems in creative ways;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• A positive attitude with a desire to work within a team environment towards a common goal;
• An impressive ability to estimate work load and execute on the work in the time estimated;
• Contributed to planning product releases alongside production or project management;
• Mentored multiple programmers in both coding capabilities and forwarding their career.

Requirements

• Experience with any of the following languages: C#, Java, Lua, HLSL/Cg shaders;
• Mobile: iOS, Android;
• Test Driven Development;
• Visual Studio, Perforce;
• Unit testing and TDD for server development;
• C# server environments, AWS, Azure, GCP;
• Running a live server environment and supporting operations.

Benefits

• 10 days vacation leave;
• 5 paid days personal leave;
• 7 paid sick days;
• Life Insurance & Accidental Death & Dismemberment;
• Dependent Life Insurance;
• Long Term Disability (LTD);
• Extended Healthcare Benefit;
• Dental Care;
• Hybrid working;
• Training & Development;
• Salary Range: 110,000 to 140,000 CAD.