A career at Ubisoft Leamington and Ubisoft Reflections opens doors to new worlds. As an Online Programmer you are part of a team that directly influences the quality of our player's online experience.

What you will do

• Assist with investigation, design and implementation of class-leading online features;
• Involvement with education of the game team to ensure online gameplay and technical constraints are considered during the design and implementation of game features;
• Work as a key part of an agile development team, organising and planning the implementation of features with direction from their lead, and assist less experienced programmers;
• Use practical solutions to implement feature requests, taking into account performance, maintainability and resource usage;
• Ensure coding standards are followed in their own and others code;
• Collect, interpret and analyse the technical feasibility of system/feature specifications;
• Write clear and well-structured code using the appropriate data structure and algorithms while bearing in mind performance, maintenance and architectural requirements;
• Include comments in the code and document implemented features;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basics of load testing and game feature testing and write test code;
• Stay up-to-date with technology advances within the field;
• Perform code reviews for peers;
• Extract and interpret relevant runtime system resource information (disk IO, network, CPU, memory, etc).

What you will bring

• 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

We’re offering flexible working with some remote work available, 25 days annual leave + Christmas shutdown (usually 3 days), 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 excellent relocation support, should you need it!

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