[Hiring] Senior Gameplay Programmer @Sandbox VR

Role Description

Sandbox VR is looking for a Senior Gameplay Programmer to help shape the future of immersive multiplayer VR experiences. In this role, you will bring gameplay to life by building player interactions, AI behaviors, and core systems in Unity, working closely with designers and artists to create engaging, high-quality experiences. You will play a key role in guiding technical direction, mentoring other developers, and delivering polished, performant gameplay that reaches players around the world.

• Work to implement game mechanics and AI behaviors for our compelling 6-person multiplayer experiences & provide mentorship to other programmers.
• Consistently push the limits of the Unity game engine to maximize the quality of each VR experience.
• Keep up with the latest features and optimization techniques and decide if, when, and how to incorporate them.
• Find or develop tools and processes to make the development process more efficient.
• Actively contribute to creative maintainable code that can be reused across experiences.
• Own key areas of the experience from a technical perspective.
• Experiment with game design and use rapid prototyping to develop features, ensuring strong architectural and algorithmic decisions are made.
• Work closely with art and design to create and iterate on gameplay features.
• Fix bugs in existing gameplay systems as required.
• Contribute ideas toward all aspects of the VR experience’s production and development processes.
• Write robust, maintainable code.

Qualifications

• You've been a software or feature group team lead and can share your philosophy of leadership as well as specific examples of where you've put that philosophy into action.
• Exceptional C# programming skills with at least 5 years of software programming experience.
• Significant experience in programming with the Unity engine.
• Proven track record with at least 2 shipped commercial games (PC or Console preferred) and involvement in each step of the development process from concept stage to final release.
• Ability to share stories of successes or failures and what you learned from each experience.
• Frequent video game player with a strong understanding of current gaming trends and popular game releases.
• Having your own VR headset and regularly playing VR games is a big plus.

Benefits

• Significant equity grants in a rapidly growing organization.
• Private medical benefits.
• Retirement plan.
• €64,234 - €83,127 a year.

Company Description

We’re Sandbox VR, the most advanced virtual reality experience in the world. Our mission is to bring people closer together through world-class immersive experiences. Since launching in 2017, we’ve become the location-based VR industry leader. We take pride in the relationships we are building within our communities by providing world-class experiences for our guests and our employees.