Senior Gameplay Programmer

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🔥 12 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $82 - $100 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🎮 Game Engineer

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Insomniac Games

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 1994

🎮 Gaming

Gaming

Insomniac Games is a renowned video game developer known for creating popular titles such as Marvel's Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Ratchet & Clank. The company emphasizes crafting games that convey positive messages and themes of friendship, self-sacrifice, and overcoming evil. Insomniac Games prides itself on maintaining an inclusive workplace culture, ensuring that their creative outputs reflect the same values they uphold internally. With a focus on both console and PC gaming, Insomniac Games continues to be a leader in the gaming industry.

📋 Description

• Collaborate across teams to drive player experience and feature quality, focusing on Enemy–Player interactions • Serve as a subject matter expert on enemy and boss teams • Mentor and assist junior staff through code reviews and relevant special interest groups • Create flexible, dynamic features and systems across diverse environments and situations • Architect and implement scalable and extensible systems • Estimate assigned work, help keep work in scope, and update the team on task status • Understand, expand, and create systems needed to deliver gameplay features • Work with internal customers to understand tool and system usage • Drive feature and architecture development within enemy behavior systems

🎯 Requirements

• Prior experience owning and delivering features involving enemy, boss, or ally behaviors • Extensive C++ skills • Knowledge of memory management, performance optimization, systems interfaces, programming principles, and best practices • Knowledge of mathematical concepts, particularly 3D math and visualization using linear algebra • Player-centered design awareness • Ability and willingness to articulate strengths and weaknesses of proposed features and advocate for alternatives • Background check required at the offer stage

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefit offerings • Digital-first culture supporting in-office, remote, and hybrid working arrangements