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We’re looking for an experienced UE4 programmer to join an exciting indie studio over the next three months + on an exciting unannounced project. Although we can't say too much about the game, they've received backing from a prominent publisher whose name you'd definitely recognise! You will work closely with their passionate team and lead the creation of eerily natural and dynamic character and animal AI behaviour, navigation, and movement.

This will be an iterative process where together they'll fine-tune, tweak, and polish until they achieve the best combination of realism and fun. Ideally you'll have a natural interest in helping to conjure our overall vision with an inclination towards attention to detail and a penchant for creative flair and polish is a huge plus. This is an important role central to the game's identity, so your work will be prominent and rewarding and directly influence the end product.

SKILLS

• Solid C++ programming and Blueprint skills.
• Strong understanding of general AI principles; knowledge of behaviour trees, blackboards, tasks, etc. - Strong mathematical ability; knowledge of vectors, matrices, and linear algebra.
• Excellent problem-solving ability.
• Good team communication skills.
• Passion for playing and creating cutting-edge, single-player video game experiences.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Experience working on pathfinding or AI movement/behaviours for characters, preferably bipedal animals.
• Experience solving complex AI problems (navigation, turning, route planning, multiple agent interaction, etc).
• Experience working with complex animation graphs, procedural animation, and/or foot and spine IK.

Our client is a London based, investment-backed company who is developing an immersive (VR/AR), collaboration platform for the enterprise. If you want to work on a product that will help these international teams build the next generation of vehicles, space rockets or collaborate on the next big medical breakthrough then look no further.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will help the development team in the midst of some exciting growth in the greenfield areas of immersion and collaboration. As a key part of the team, you will be assisting in managing source code, building binaries that you will test and distribute along with evolving our Gitlab CI framework. You’ll collaborate with highly capable, friendly individuals – developers, UX designers, QA and product owners – to build an engine that allows people to work together better, especially on 3D content.

Their mission is to make heavy duty immersive collaboration a reality in enterprise. We have partnerships with some of the world’s most exciting companies including Williams AE, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Bosch, and NVidia.

You’ll help them achieve this through bringing your skills and capabilities to the team. They place a priority on work/life balance and despite working hard and having fun solving tough technical challenges we only work sustainable 40-hour weeks

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understand and evangelise the benefits of CI tooling such as TeamCity, Jenkins or Gitlab-CI.
• Strive to automate repetitive tasks, through documenting manual playbooks and with scripting/programming languages, such as Python.
• Comfortable using Linux (any distribution) and Windows on the command line andcan troubleshoot issues and run performance diagnostics.
• Use Docker or other container technologies to deploy bespoke production systems.
• Go out of your way to understand the teams’ requirements and capture these in systems such as Confluence, Jira or Gitlab.

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years in a DevOps or automation testing role.
• Experience working with build files (CMake, VS Projects).
• Experience working with Git or Perforce for source control and understand the
• pros/cons of these systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Understand the values of “Document all the things”.

Bonus points:

• Working knowledge of C# (our core language), C++, Python, or JavaScript.
• Understand low-level concepts in Linux or Windows administration (e.g. building systems from scratch, automating installs, diagnosing issues).
• Experience of managing “Infrastructure as code” for services and/or network infrastructure.
• Have used or deployed Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies.
• Familiarity with Configuration Management tools, such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Digital Rebar.
• Experience using Gitlab CI and issue tracking systems

Our client is a London based, investment-backed company who is developing an immersive (VR/AR), collaboration platform for the enterprise. If you want to work on a product that will help these international teams build the next generation of vehicles, space rockets or collaborate on the next big medical breakthrough then look no further.

What they are looking for:

They are looking for a pro-active junior test engineer to join and support the development and marketing teams during some exciting growth in the greenfield areas of immersion and collaboration. You will take on a few roles in the business – handling manual QA for various cutting-edge VR/AR hardware, along with testing of our collaborative framework and supporting automation of QA processes and reporting. You’ll team up with highly capable, friendly individuals – developers, UX designers and product owners – to help build an engine that allows people to work together better, especially on 3D content.

Additionally, you will travel with the commercial team to showcase the product to customers, providing technical support and keeping everything running smoothly when out on the road.

Their mission is to make heavy duty immersive collaboration a reality in enterprise. They have partnerships with some of the world’s most exciting companies including Williams AE, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Bosch, and NVidia.

You’ll help them achieve this through bringing your skills and capabilities to the team. They place a priority on work/life balance and despite working hard and having fun solving tough technical challenges they only work sustainable 40-hour weeks.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the product owner to help them develop detailed acceptance criteria for their user stories.
• Create, manage and own our regression pack, making sure it is always up to date, with good documentation for Checklists and manual test cases.
• Collaborate with the development team in delivery by ensuring that new work is functional, of high quality and doesn’t introduce regressions.
• Perform manual testing, reporting and diagnostics, with an eye for detail.
• Assist in maintaining the build and CI systems.
• Support the marketing team with demo’s both onsite and offsite in conferences and with customers globally.

Knowledge Skills and Experience:

• Find bugs before they’ve even written them! Work closely with the development team to find the edge cases and missing scenarios before they begin building.
• Be technical enough to learn and understand how the product works to the level of detail required to effectively test.
• Knowledge of software development life cycles.
• Understand how QA adds value within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Be comfortable working within a Linux environment.
• Be comfortable working with issue trackers and CI/CD infrastructure (such as Jenkins).
• 1+ years commercial working experience as a QA Engineer or testing a 3D software product.
• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written – with a desire to work closely with others.

Bonus points (they’ll support your growth in these areas if they are new to you):

• Have written manual test playbooks previously, and perhaps written automated tests.
• Working knowledge of C# (our core language), C++, Python, Bash or JavaScript.
• Understand low-level concepts in Linux or Windows administration (e.g. building systems from scratch, automating installs, diagnosing issues).
• Experience of managing “Infrastructure as code” for services and/or network infrastructure.
• Have used or deployed Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies.
• Familiarity with Configuration Management tools, such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Digital Rebar.
• Significant experience with VR/AR and/or User Experience.

Overview:

Our client, a London-based early-stage tech firm working on collaborative VR and AR are looking for an experienced, proactive Senior Software Engineer to help us build their Collaborative 3D tool in the midst of some exciting growth. They develop mainly in C#, with some components in C++ and other languages where needed.  You’ll collaborate with highly capable, friendly individuals – developers, UX designers, QA and product owners – to build an engine that allows people to work together better, especially on 3D content.

Their mission is to make heavy-duty immersive collaboration a reality in enterprise. They have collaborations with some of the world’s most exciting companies including: Williams AE, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Bosch, and NVidia.

You’ll help them to achieve this by bringing your skills and capabilities to the team. They place a priority on work/life balance and despite working hard and having fun solving tough technical challenges we only work sustainable 40-hour weeks.

Function:

To take on key programming responsibilities to develop software in line with their architectural design

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Take on programming and design challenges across their tech stack, in order to expand and maintain their core engine and application layers.
• Contribute to algorithm development for deep problems, their software architecture and to their DevOps Process.
• Support, develop and mentor mid-level and junior members of the programming team.
• Participate positively in discussions with the team about how to improve their products, architecture and ways of working.
• Continuously engage with learning new techniques and technologies – understand and explaining how they work; testing them out for their use cases; and integrating them into their products.

Knowledge Skills and Experience:

• Broad knowledge across many domains. Such as networking, graphics, IO, UI, and varied tools and languages.
• Comfortable with not knowing all the answers and working collaboratively to solve problems to get the job done.
• Focussed on producing high-quality code that meets technical requirements and is maintainable by both other and future developers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus points (they'll support your growth in these areas if they are new to you):

• Good working knowledge of DevOps approaches and tools.
• Working knowledge of C# (our core language).
• Knowledge of 3D engines like Unity/Unreal and/or 3D graphics.
• Interest or experience in collaboration tools and User Experience more generally.

They are an equal opportunity employer, and particularly encourage people from under-represented groups to apply. They believe that diversity is a positive for all our teams, and will support you in feeling included and accepted.

Our client, a highly skilled, growing, energetic and award-winning mobile app & game agency are seeking a talented Unity developer to join thier team on a contract basis. They love to create user-centred, innovative, exceptional experiences and products. You will be working closely with all members of the team and will have a voice in how their current and future products will be taken forward.

Your job will involve you taking ownership of the technical solutions involved. 

Requirements & responsibilities:
•3+ years of experience either in a development agency or client side (in-house)

•A portfolio of games and/or mobile apps you have previously created

•Help identify and resolve potential issues in the development pipeline.

•Expert knowledge of C#, Unity & Interface Implementation

•Must have strong background and deep understanding of 3D programming, physics, kinetics, mathematics, computations, algorithms, classes and object oriented skills.

•Well versed with Unity GUI, Object Oriented Design principles, and script writing in C#

•Strong knowledge of object oriented design, design patterns, 3D Math, and data structures

•Expert knowledge of Unity3D Pro including Unity GUI, asset bundles, materials/shaders, and iPhone & Android deployment.  

•Graphics Development (Particle Systems, Shaders) •Experience in VR & AR

•Experience with client-server network programming and online games

•Familiarity with AWS or other cloud services, and game speci?c server solutions

•Experience with computer vision techniques and software libraries

•Experience with version control (e.g Git)

•Create and maintain high quality software documentation.

•You will have a do-all-it attitude and endeavour to meet deadlines 

Benefits:
- BONUS
- pension
- Health care
- Cool working environment
- Remote working

Our client, a highly skilled, growing, energetic and award-winning mobile app & game agency are seeking a talented Unity developer to join thier team. They love to create user-centred, innovative, exceptional experiences and products. You will be working closely with all members of the team and will have a voice in how their current and future products will be taken forward.

Your job will involve you taking ownership of the technical solutions involved. 

Requirements & responsibilities:
•3+ years of experience either in a development agency or client side (in-house)

•A portfolio of games and/or mobile apps you have previously created

•Help identify and resolve potential issues in the development pipeline.

•Expert knowledge of C#, Unity & Interface Implementation

•Must have strong background and deep understanding of 3D programming, physics, kinetics, mathematics, computations, algorithms, classes and object oriented skills.

•Well versed with Unity GUI, Object Oriented Design principles, and script writing in C#

•Strong knowledge of object oriented design, design patterns, 3D Math, and data structures

•Expert knowledge of Unity3D Pro including Unity GUI, asset bundles, materials/shaders, and iPhone & Android deployment.  

•Graphics Development (Particle Systems, Shaders) •Experience in VR & AR

•Experience with client-server network programming and online games

•Familiarity with AWS or other cloud services, and game speci?c server solutions

•Experience with computer vision techniques and software libraries

•Experience with version control (e.g Git)

•Create and maintain high quality software documentation.

•You will have a do-all-it attitude and endeavour to meet deadlines 
 

Benefits:
- BONUS
- pension
- Health care
- Cool working environment
- Remote working

About:

Our client is leading the field in enterprise VR. They believe in the power of Virtual Reality to make training, learning, and collaboration easier and more effective for everyone. Their platform and ground-breaking work with some world-leading companies including Facebook, DHL, Shell, Accenture and GE, is driving adoption in the enterprise VR sector.

Based on this success, they have also recently secured a significant new funding round to continue to develop our VR platform and power bigger and better things in the future.

Some of their core platform offerings include multiplayer, distribution (across multiple VR hardware and web), data capture, and user playback. This allows developers to build scalable training and learning applications, used to power virtual submarines, oil refineries, medical rooms, rugby pitches, aircraft hangars and much more.

The client is a friendly, inclusive, and rapidly expanding development team.  They’re at the forefront of enterprise VR, double finalists for this year’s VR awards, and motivated to see the benefits VR can bring to the way people learn.

The Opportunity:

They’re looking for a 3D generalist who has a lot of experience working within Unity.

This role is for someone who has great generalist skills in modelling, texturing, rigging and animation. This person will be a key member of their art team which is small but highly flexible, offering support in all these areas. This person may occasionally be lead or solo artist on projects and so must give them confidence that they can be positioned as so. 

This person will be expected to create, rig and animate 3D Assets that are appropriate for specifically targeted VR systems. Careful optimisation considerations will be essential as projects will range from high end VR (e.g Oculus Rift S) to mobile VR (e.g Oculus Quest).

Inside unity you will be required to import assets, create materials, setup prefabs, setup scenes, build environments and further animate inside unity timeline. Being able to create shaders, particles or other VFX is a huge plus.

Other expectations will be to work within a JIRA, ticked-based environment where effort is planned and put into sprints.

It’s important to them that this person is a nice fit within their environment. Working and adapting well to small, highly flexible teams across multiple projects will require good communication and planning skills with a positive and supportive attitude to help projects move along smoothly.

As a first step they will want to see your up-to-date portfolio. They would then want to move onto a face-to-face interview to review this and talk about your wider experience

Core Technical Skills:

• 3D Modelling, Rigging, Skinning and Animation + Maya (preferred), 3DS, Blender.
• Texturing + Photoshop, Substance
• Experienced in Unity game engine.

Desirable:

• Unity Timeline animation experience
• Unity particle system experience
• Unity / Amplify shader graph experience
• Mobile optimisation experience
• Git / Sourcetree / Jira experience

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday
• Pension
• Private healthcare / gym membership
• Birthday day off
• Duvet days
• Training allowance
• Plus more

As a Senior Game Designer with a focus on Player Investment, you will create immersive game economies, experiences, and loops that tie our game's systems together - designing for the 'long-term' player experience and ensuring the title can be enjoyed by players for many years to come.

You will join a talented games-as-a-service team in Edmonton, Canada, and will build a robust, scalable game economy with a robust inventory and upgrade system. The work you do to understand all aspects of the game's design -- from moment-to-moment gameplay through to the high-level metagame -- and its effect on player investment will make a lasting impact on the games we make.

Areas for Impact

• Designing economies, inventories and upgrade systems.
• Work with the foresight to create a “1000 hour” experience, creating an environment of repeatable experiences that always put the player first.
• Work closely with other developers to ensure that these systems are part of the core games design - not an afterthought.

We'd like to hear from you if you identify with the following:

• Experience shipping at least one live game in a Systems Design / Game Designer role.
• Experience operating a successful free-to-play live game economy.
• Strong knowledge of how to design, model, and adjust large inventory and progression systems that are directly related to shaping gameplay.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• Unreal Engine experience (preferred).
• Experience (or strong interest) in RPGs (preferred).

While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!

Equal Opportunity

The best ideas are often the least expected and require new ways of thinking; that’s why our teams are made up of an incredible range of talented people. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

Our Client:

Creating the global standard for communicating location. Making geo-location simpler utilising the latest technical capabilities, they are already a very succesful tech company. A global company headquartered in London, the team is innovative, agile and fast-paced.

Requirements: 

Technical Skills / Experience: 

•  Python/Java
• Experience with data ingestion, aggregation and analytics pipelines
• 3+ Years database management experience (such as MySQL, BigQuery, PostGRES) and scaling/sharding/caching/load
• Balancing/query optimisation
• Javascript/basic web development skills
• Experience with data visualisation tools (D3/Datastudio/Looker) ? 
• Design of RESTful APIs
• C++
• Automated Build Systems (such as Jenkins or Travis CI), Cloud deployments (AWS, Docker, kubernetes)

Soft Skills 

• Excellent communication skills with perfect spoken and written English
• The ability to talk to techies and non-techies in suitable language
• A passion for development and staying current with technology trends
• The ability to work both independently and with others
• A focus on high quality data engineering work and attention to detail
• The ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Benefits

• Competitive Salary 
• 25 days holiday 
• Share options 
• Pension
• Private healthcare 
• Cycle to work
• Free breakfast & snacks
• Weekly lunch & learn sessions 
• Regular team lunches & team socials 
• Sports and hobbies clubs