People Can Fly is hiring a
Principal Engine Programmer

Summary

Join People Can Fly, a leading independent AAA games development studio, and contribute to the creation of new generation action games. As a key team member, you'll have opportunities to perfect your craft, expand your knowledge, and work alongside industry leaders.

Responsibilities

• Propose, implement, own tasks and features in a timely fashion to a high standard of quality
• Provide regular updates to the production for your software and reach out to other parties who will be impacted by your work
• Collaborating with PCF Framework to define the direction of the shared components, and augment the stability, features and performance of existing shared modules
• Propose, design and implement technical solutions to complex problems presented by the production
• Produce highly efficient systems and improve the performance of other systems
• Breakdown your own tasks, update your progress, ask questions and raise issues to relevant stakeholders as well as proposing solutions when needed
• Work closely with the project Architect to implement high quality features and code, proactively identify and address risks with the team
• Partner with leads to define priority management for features
• Proactively participate and approve code reviews
• Share knowledge with the rest of the studio
• Occasionally support leads in recruitment projects with HR collaboration
• Define the best practices and technical solutions used at the company
• Work with QA teams to define testing requirements for new and existing features
• Design, implement and maintain new low-level systems and overall architecture
• Creating performance and memory optimisation tools and features
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the engine to support productions
• Test, debug, profile, optimize and document implementations
• Being up to date with features from other engines and provide expertise about possible implementations
• Evaluating and accepting systems from other code teams