About Funsolve

Our mission is to build superb gaming experiences that are fun, rewarding and memorable.  Making great games requires strong teams, good leadership and the best environment to create, we’re building a world class development team and would like to speak with anyone that shares our vision.

FS02 / Closing Date for Applications Mar 31st 2018

We’re looking for an experienced and innovative programmer to lead a team in creating our first AAA console title. You will be a credited Lead Programmer on at least 2 game projects and ideally one of these would have been for a console.

Roles & Duties

• Report to the Game Director and coordinate with studio leads on code objectives.
• Lead the programming team responsible for creating all code for the game(s)
• Identify and recruit for code roles in unison with studio budgets and objectives.
• Help to develop any custom tools or rendering methods for products.
• Work closely with game team(s) to prototype game elements.
• Provide training & coaching for coders in various tools and processes.
• Facilitate communication between code, art, design and production.

Skills & Expertise

• C++, C# or other range of coding experience to a professional standard.
• Experienced in setting up a project codebase with knowledge of industry best practice.
• Experienced in managing data repositories, data streams and multiple branches to best practice.
• A good understanding of current games art production techniques.
• An awareness of the differences between mobile and console development and how best to achieve good results on both.
• A minimum of 2 years working as a Lead Programmer in the games industry.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to critique and provide constructive feedback.
• Able to work with a team across multiple disciplines.
• Excellent oral and written communications.
• Able to sympathetically identify potential problems and create practical solutions.
• Understand other departments needs and requirements suggest improvements, etc.

AGENCIES NOTE: We are currently not accepting applications from agencies for this role. Only direct applications will be engaged with.