Senior Game Programmer - Game Tools

• Job Title - Technical Artist - Casual Games

• Reports Into - Head of Art

• Location - Hybrid/ Bangalore

A Little Bit About Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security, and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade, and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• We want everyone involved in our games to share our success, that’s why we have a generous team profit-sharing scheme from day 1 of employment

• In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer private medical cover and life assurance

• https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! (Design and make your own games every Wednesday)

• 20 days of paid holidays plus bank holidays

• Great work-life balance with flexible working hours

• Quarterly team building days - work hard, play hard!

• Monthly employee awards

• Free snacks, fruit, and drinks

Are You Up To The Challenge?

“I am a catalyst for helping great artists bring their work to the masses without making compromises for technical reasons”

Your Team Mates

With the stroke of their brushes, our game art teams bring vibrance and colours to the lights and clockwork of our Kwalee games. As creative doers, they not only offer a look and feel, but they also use time and business constraints to solve aesthetical challenges unsolvable by clever design.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Working closely with the art team and other team disciplines to create tools, techniques, and pipelines that make it easier and faster for artists to create their best work

• Create shaders, effects, and visual improvements to elevate the look of the game

• Collaborate with the Art Leads to help elevate the art expectations for the game and create plans to help realize them.

• Support the technology team and create tools to help make it easier for creativity and technology to co-exist.

• Optimization of game assets to ensure that the game runs as well as it can on the broadest range of devices.

• Providing feedback based on your expertise in a wide range of games.

Your Hard Skills

• A minimum of 3 years experience in a Tech Art role, working in Unity, on commercially released products.

• Thorough knowledge of the Unity engine, particularly optimization, VFX, shaders and rendering pipelines.

• Detailed knowledge of art creation packages, including Photoshop, 3DS Max, and other industry-standard tools.

• Excellent pipeline definition skills, able to define how art goes from the team into the game.

• Ability to work creatively in a demanding team environment.

• Absolute passion for playing and making video games, especially mobile games.

• Strong creative ideas and imagination, able to entertain players with challenges, humour, surprises, and fun.

• Positive attitude, self-driven, and able to work alone or as part of a team.

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colors, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders, and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore, and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines, and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

1. The developer should be familiar with VCL
2. Must have knowledge of LiveBindings
3. Nice to know:
   1.  ADO
   2. BDE
   3. dbExpress
   4. DFS
   5. FastReport
   6. Gnostice
   7. Indy
   8. QuickReport
   9. Raize
   10. TntU
   11. icode
4. Familiar with GIT version control
5. Good communication skills

We're hiring at Octobotics! You will be a member of our robotics team. As a Robotics Engineer Intern, you will be responsible for engineering solutions to automation problems alongside the product development team. You can expect to co-craft innovative automated solutions and interfaces with C++/python, test third-party embedded modules in real-world scenarios, and use these experiences to pioneer the company's pioneering robotics platforms. 

The candidate should have above-average Linux skills. With experience using ROS and a comprehensive grasp of robotics fundamentals, the candidate should be able to deliver efficient and reliable code. The candidate should be able to work with vision systems and hardware like motor and controller systems, sensors, microcontrollers, communication protocols such as Ethernet or Modbus.

The candidate must be comfortable working in a dynamic environment with prototypes arising mid-project, and the discovery of new areas requiring attention at any given time is required.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd: 

• A Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
• Understand Computer Fundamentals - Compilers, linkers, Cmake.
• Understand DSA - Topcoder, CodeChef, HackerRank.
• SLAM ( Graph SLAM, Lidar based Localization )
• Use Rviz & Gazebo.
• Use Git - Add, Commit, Push. 

About Us:

We are working on next-generation maritime and aerial robotics for the future. We are developing the first Marine & Aero Robotic Platform in the World with Modular Manipulators for Autonomous Inspection & NDT even on heavily corroded surfaces (Matured Technology)/Eddy Current/Other NDT Techniques. We are a close-knit group of dreamers and doers who are willing to take risks, think outside the box, and try to accomplish the seemingly impossible.

We are ready to push the boundaries and are looking for people who want to be a part of this exciting journey. We may not promise the moon, but we will try our best to provide a conductive, non-toxic environment within a flat organization where "Every Opinion Matters." 

Octobotics Tech raised its pre-Seed round from a Hong Kong-based investor and is now hiring our very first few members of the Octobotics Tech family.

About us

The YUG Metaverse is a virtual reality technology and development firm that specializes in creating immersive, interactive experiences within virtual worlds. Our team is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is possible within the metaverse and providing our users with engaging and innovative content. We have created a platform that allows users to interact with each other and explore virtual worlds in a way that feels real and natural. From socializing and gaming to business meetings and events, the YUG Metaverse offers endless possibilities for exploration and connection.

What we are seeking

We are seeking a skilled Unity Game Developer to join our team. The Unity Game Developer will be responsible for creating and implementing high-quality game mechanics and features using the Unity engine. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of programming concepts and a passion for creating immersive and engaging game experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement game mechanics and features using the Unity engine
• Collaborate with the game design team to develop and iterate on game play ideas
• Work with the art team to integrate and optimize 3D assets and animations
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
• Debug and troubleshoot issues as they arise
• Contribute to the development of the overall project roadmap and schedule

Requirements:

• 3-5 years Experience with game development using Unity
• Proficiency with C# programming and the Unity engine
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Excellent communication skills
• A portfolio of game development work is a plus

Responsibilities and Duties

• Handle one or more projects independently
• Work closely in small teams and will be delivering quality outputs in a low supervision and high possession environment.
• Produce high quality and engaging experiences within agreed time- frames. Work closely with the other developers, designers, artists and QA to develop features for all aspects of the experience including UI, animation, audio, physics and rendering.
• Share ideas and solutions for improving functionality.
• Test the code for robustness, usability and desired functionality.
•  Work on bugs and improve application performance.
•   Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Key Skills
Unity, unity 3d, C#, Unity Developer, Augmented reality, Virtual Reality, Software Development

Technical Design Lead

If you are an advanced Software developer, having experience in leading a team, who has experience in developing platforms or frameworks, components and having knowledge of the open-source software/ tools/ technologies, then you are the one we are looking for.

Preference for candidates who have been exposed to Blockchain and Fin-Tech domains. The candidate will have to architecting and develope Software Programmes based on requirements provided.

The codebase the candidate develops should be of high quality and should be modular, scalable and re-usable at all times. There should be a focus all the time to promote SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) to ensure all of the services are Highly-Available and Fault Tolerant at all times.

Other Responsibilities:

• • Responsible for understanding the Business requirements and validating the framework design and execution methodology.
  • Ensure high quality software systems are developed by the software development team within defined standards.
  • Flexible to adapting & introducing new and latest technologies to organization.
  • Maintain current knowledge of technology landscape and developments.
  • Innovation & Optimizing R&D.
  • Defining the software technology strategy, architecture, and road-map.
  • Would love to do more coding yourself, but accept that you can bring most value by helping others to excel.
  • Should have built large scale applications with modern web frameworks & technologies
  • Should be a fast thinker, hands on manager and strong communicator and think and act like an entrepreneur.
  • Consolidate our technology platforms and create plans for each Track, analyze and monitor technology performance metrics.
  • Take the initiative in thought leadership, innovation and creativity.