Lead Gameplay Programmer [Assassins Creed VR] (389

Lead an engineering team within a collaborative multidiscipline environment with a focus on the three pillars of Leadership at Ubisoft:  Care about People, Drive Performance and Development and Lead in Complexity.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Build an effective team to ensure it is fully resourced, a manageable size and a good mix of levels and foster the team player culture;
• Plan, prioritise and set inspiring objectives for your team members all year long;
• Empower your team members with clear expectations and hold them accountable for their key results;
• Provide your team members with ongoing and meaningful feedback on performance and development -- ensuring positive acknowledgement of all achievements, both big and small;
• Enable your team members to reflect and prepare their future in their role and at Ubisoft;
• Engage and positively influence team members and stakeholders around a vision;
• Navigate through ambiguity and embrace change with a positive mindset;
• Create the environment for initiatives and ideas to emerge and grow;
• Care about people:  be exemplary and supportive;
• Communicate with impact and promote an open dialogue within your team.

 Other Responsibilities

• Work with production, engineers, design and art team leads to create task estimates and schedules for the engineering team and track development efforts across the team;
• Ensure your team participates in standard studio development processes;
• Liaise with internal and external middleware technology providers, and console manufacturers;
• Balance active code development with the management requirements and responsibilities of a discipline lead;
• Ensure the delivery of practical and timely solutions by the engineering team that meets the game design and technical requirements;
• Ensure code is modular, self-contained, and defensive and observes the technical constraints on the system by leading regular technical design and code reviews;
• Define good programming practices and coding standards, and ensure they are enforced within the engineering team through regular peer code reviews;
• Ensure the creation of technical documentation for the engineering team as well as other disciplines, and assist in the creation of submission materials as required;
• Continually review the game and development processes to identify potential improvements;
• Be an advocate and ambassador for technology sharing across projects;
• Supporting the line manager in any ad hoc tasks and duties.

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of common online systems;
• Ability to debug networked/asynchronous systems;
• Very good C/C++ programming skills, with very good knowledge of object oriented development including design patterns and UML;
• Experience working with a large game codebase, and it's modules, middleware and associated pipeline;
• Understanding of speed and memory considerations, and able to implement basic optimisations;
• Knowledge of common algorithms, data structures and patterns, and their application;
• Ability to analyse unfamiliar code of a reasonable complexity to understand, extend and refactor an existing module;
• Ability to debug defects of a reasonable complexity, including memory related issues, and multi-threading;
• Knowledge of different software development methods such as Test Driven Development, Unit Testing, Agile etc.;
• Understanding the constraints and technical requirements for console platform development within their area is a plus;
• Ability to adapt to change;
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Relevant Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering or equivalent experience;
• 3 years commercial software development experience with significant involvement in 1 published game in a relevant programming capacity is a plus;
• Experience working with at least one modern console platform is an advantage;
• Experience with profiling tools is desirable;
• Experience working in a multi-site collaboration environment is a plus.

Benefits & Relocation

Flexible working, 22 days annual leave + Christmas shutdown, private healthcare (with option to add immediate family), life insurance & income protection, workplace pension scheme, paid volunteering days, annual fitness & well-being allowance, games, technology & merchandise, subsidised travel and many more... 

Relocation assistance is available to anyone currently living 50 miles or more from the studio location. Please contact a member of the talent acquisition team to find out what we have to offer and how we can support with your move here... relocation really doesn't have to be a daunting prospect. 

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