*FULL TIME REMOTE WORK AVAILABLE*
UI Programmer (User Interface) – AAA Computer Games / Video Games - West Midlands / FULL TIME REMOTE WORK AVAILABLE
*Previous Game Developer studio experience not essential*
A number of jobs available at both Junior level and expeirenced / senior level, excellent opportunity for a UI Programmer (User Interface) to join a growing AAA Gaming Developer.
LOCATION: Birmingham / West Midlands / Worcestershire / Full Time Remote Available
What makes it GREAT?
-Excellent opportunity for career progression, going through an exciting period of organic growth.
-Company has very low staff turnover, Excellent sign that they look after their staff.
-Exciting and diverse projects, working on Iconic AAA Gaming projects on a variety of platforms.
COMPANY:
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Based in the midlands my client is a fast-growing gaming developer working on exciting projects with a long-term pipeline of work to fuel further growth of the business and your career.
Role:
As UI Programmer your role will include:
- Develop and deliver high-quality game code for AAA Unreal 4 / Unreal 5 engine projects
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the UI Team to develop fully realised and working game UI.
- Communicate and collaborate with the Programming and Design Teams to assist in delivering polished and immersive UI that meet design and technical requirements.
- Work within the specification guidelines of the project and technology, keeping performance in mind as well as working with others to debug potential issues.
- Profiling and optimising code for memory and performance considerations.
- Be responsible for scoping tasks, working to deadlines, and communicating with production if problems arise.
- Liaise with design and production to establish achievable goals.
- Communicate with QA to help track down and fix bugs.
Requirements
To be considered for this UI Programmer / User Interface Programmer vacancy you must ideally meet the following criteria:
- Ideally atleast 1 year of professional experience with front end web development HTML5 / CSS / Javascript (Typescript preferred).
- Games specific UI experience including animation and a design eye for detail on layouts and usability for UX would be ideal but not essential.
- A good working knowledge of C++ ideal but not essential.
- Unreal Engine 4 / 5 experience ideal but not essential.
- Strong understanding of content structure and management code bases with the ability to quickly learn existing code bases.
- Good level of debugging skills across all required languages, with the ability to perform profiling and optimisation.
- Able to quickly create prototypes to match design criteria.
Demonstrate the ability to..
- Think critically about the requirements of a game UI.
- Self motivate and have pride in your work.
- Work and communicate well within a team and studio environment.
- Create high quality UML for planning the correct structure for your code.
- Create prototypes and wireframes to demonstrate intent across all stages of development, from design to implementation.
- Be adaptive and master new tools in the process if required.
- Take critique and guidance from others well.
- Manage your time effectively to achieve the highest quality results.
Desirable Skills - but not essential.
- Experience with Coherent UI for Unreal Engine using Coherent Gameface - Ideal but not essential.
- C++ experience producing production quality code.
- Multiplayer development experience.
- Experienced with giving and receiving code reviews.
- Knowledge of other areas of game creation.
- Experience developing for and deploying to a console (Xbox one, PS4 or other).
- Experience working on and maintaining live games.
REMUNERATION:
The successful UI Programmer will receive:
-Competitive Salary + Benefits
-Company outings & events
To be considered for this vacancy or to find out more information please apply now.
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