Senior Gameplay Programmer, Game Prototypes

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🔥 45 minutes ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $140k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎮 Game Engineer

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Netflix

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1997

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Media • B2C

Netflix is a global streaming entertainment company and content producer whose stated mission is "to entertain the world. " It operates a consumer-facing subscription platform offering on-demand TV shows, films, and original programming, and also runs a public careers site emphasizing culture, inclusion, and hiring accommodations. The provided text highlights Netflix’s focus on recruiting talent worldwide, its work-life and culture pages, and its public-facing employer materials.

📋 Description

• Implement and refine gameplay systems across a diverse portfolio of game prototypes • Contribute to gameplay foundations for the cloud streaming platform, Netflix Game Controller, and other potential platforms • Work across diverse game genres, from children's titles to AAA action-adventure games • Contribute to every stage of development, from initial vision to playable prototypes • Partner with designers to shape gameplay systems and build them using Unreal Engine 5, C++, Blueprints, Gen AI, and custom tools • Build projects across a rotating slate of genres, adapting engineering approaches to genre, audience, and platform • Own complex gameplay features from prototype through polished implementation • Profile, optimize, and debug code and content to keep prototypes performant on TV via cloud streaming and other targets • Collaborate with designers, artists, producers, and engineers to integrate and improve features • Participate in code reviews and create documentation and functional tests

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience prototyping and shipping two or more titles as a Gameplay Programmer/Engineer across varied genres • Excellent technical knowledge in C++, optimization, math, and debugging • Extensive hands-on experience in Unreal Engine 5 • Strong Blueprint implementation skills • Strong gameplay and design sensibilities • Ability to develop complex features and systems end-to-end • Ability to produce reliable, maintainable code under fast iterative timelines • Exceptional adaptability to change in a fast-moving, prototype-first environment • Strong communication skills, including translating complex technical ideas for other disciplines • Broad and active engagement with games and informed perspectives on exceptional player experience • Good judgement on quality levels and technical approaches across varied tasks • Commitment to task planning and timely delivery • Must be willing to travel for work-related events • Must adhere to a development team schedule oriented toward Eastern Standard Time (EST) • Resume required

🏖️ Benefits

• Supplemental Health and Dental Plans • Mental Health support • RRSP Retirement Plan with employer match • Stock Option Program • Disability Programs • Family-forming benefits • Life and Serious Injury Benefits • Paid leave of absence programs • Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off