Senior Engine Programmer, New Project
We are looking for a passionate and experienced engine programmer who specializes in Unreal Engine to join our Shanghai Studio.
You will be working on one of our new projects. You should be able to independently develop new engine and game features to bring ideas to life, but the ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience solving complex engine & platform specific problems.
At Supercell, we believe that small teams that find a way to work well together have the potential to create memorable games. It’s important that each team member takes pride in their work and knows what it means to take responsibility and deliver quality and fun to players. As an engine programmer at Supercell, you are responsible for delivering engine improvements and developing new game features, but will need to collaborate with game designers, game artists and other programmers to deliver on the product vision.
If you think that describes you, then we’d love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with gameplay engineers and content creation teams to solve complex technical challenges and implement new engine features in ways that improve the quality and stability of the game
- Analyze and continuously strive to solve issues and optimize Unreal Engine performance (load times, memory usage and platform specific performance issues), using your extensive knowledge of the engine
- Collaborate with game developers to maintain and troubleshoot CI/CD and cloud build workflows
- Implement and improve platform toolchains, including 3rd party library integrations, SDK upgrades, compile/linker support, debugger integration, crash reporting, etc…
- Understand and resolve mobile platform (Android/iOS) issues, including native features & platform-specific performance issues
- Maintain engine branches and engine upgrades
- Support the development of the game with any additional skills
Requirements
- 8+ years combined industry experience
- Excellent low-level C++ knowledge
- Solid experience and a broad knowledge of Unreal Engine, with special attention given to low-level code and deep optimization
- Deep understanding of the build systems and pipeline tools in Unreal, experience with batch files, shell script, CI/CD Infrastructures
- Proven professional experience working in Android NDK/C++ and iOS Xcode
- Proficiency with development tools and profiling on modern systems, including frame capture and profiling with engine-level and platform-specific tooling
- Knowledge in asset management for the game development, including revision control(svn, Git), cook pipelines, and digital asset management (both DDC and engine content cooking)
- Good game sense and able to understand the perspective of the content creation team
- Highly motivated, positive and personable. Passionate about technology, game development & development methodologies
- Effective cross-discipline communication and problem solving skills
- Being a great teammate - we believe making games is a team sport
- Familiar with various low-level programming that interface with platform APIs, i.e., memory allocators, file systems, input systems, graphics APIs (OpenGL and Vulkan), shader compilers, etc…
- Experience extending editors in Unreal to improve development efficiency
About Supercell
To make six games, we've killed dozens along the way. That's because we're obsessed with quality. Our goal is to make the best games – played by millions, enjoyed for years and remembered forever. To achieve this goal, we create the best possible teams and give them the freedom and independence that are core to our success. Read More
Interested?
Then just apply here
We’re looking forward to hearing from you. It’s always exciting to receive thoughtful applications with more than just a blurry image of a cat. Although we do love cats.
