Lead Quest Programmer

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $180.1k - $247.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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CD PROJEKT SA

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2002

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

💼 Consulting

Marketing • Travel • Consulting

CD PROJEKT SA is a Polish video game developer and publisher best known for its groundbreaking RPG titles, including popular franchises such as The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077. The company is recognized for its commitment to creating deeply immersive and engaging gaming experiences, characterized by non-linear stories and detailed worlds. CD PROJEKT SA not only develops video games but also operates the digital distribution platform GOG. com, which offers a wide range of titles DRM-free. The company's mission focuses on delivering high-quality entertainment and maintaining a strong connection with their player base worldwide.

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering team focused on story technologies for Cyberpunk 2 • Manage direct reports and support their professional growth and career ambitions • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring, and promotion plans • Guide and mentor the engineering team in code quality, collaborative workflow efficiency, and technical execution • Work with quest designers and directors to interpret creative and narrative requirements into technical needs • Collaborate with the central Architects and Maintainers of the shared bespoke quest system to drive feature requests, integration, and continuous improvement across projects • Drive development, integration, and evolution of project quest features • Ensure quest tools run efficiently while maintaining runtime performance and seamless creator workflows • Maintain and optimize story and quest features and integrate them with other game components • Foster collaborative workflows with shared technology teams across multiple projects • Write high-quality, clean, optimized, and maintainable C++ code • Track, diagnose, and resolve bugs in quest features and authoring toolsets • Collaborate across cinematic, narrative, and core gameplay teams to integrate quest systems across the game

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years of professional programming experience within the AAA games industry • 1+ years experience in technical leadership, people management, or leading a team of engineers • Strong proficiency in C++ programming • Demonstrated experience developing custom quest systems, narrative tools, or node-based editor workflows • Proven track record of working in a highly collaborative shared technology environment that spans multiple teams or projects • Ability to interpret the needs of creative and less technical team members, translating design visions into clear technical requirements • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across time zones and multicultural environments • Familiarity with Unreal Engine architecture (nice to have, not required) • Understanding of multiplayer network architecture and client-server synchronization for game state/quests (nice to have, not required) • Shipped AAA game(s) on a bespoke or custom narrative/quest toolset (nice to have, not required) • Familiarity with Unreal Engine UI tools or editor scripting for custom content tools (nice to have, not required)

🏖️ Benefits

• Company-paid medical healthcare (dental, vision, and mental) • Free mental health support, including access to counseling, psychiatric care, and a variety of well-being webinars • Paid leave — 26 days of vacation, 10 sick days, & 12 calendar holidays per year • RRSP with employer matching • Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) – $100 per month to use towards fitness, wellness, internet, home office equipment, learning, streaming services, and more • Menstrual leave — employees who menstruate can take one extra day off when experiencing period pain • RED Parents Network — support for working parents • Flexible working hours • Trainings, lectures, and courses — internal workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes • A welcome pack filled with goodies • Truly international working environment • No dress-code • May also be eligible for discretionary stock options