The Role
Join Kabam as a Senior Programmer, focused on building and maintaining gameplay systems, optimizing performance, and mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…
We're looking for a highly experienced and skilled Senior Programmer to join our team. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your deep knowledge to build and maintain advanced systems and tools, optimizing workflows and ensuring high performance for our game teams. You'll lead large-scale projects, tackle complex issues, and play a key role in mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Montreal studio.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Build and Maintain Gameplay Systems: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable gameplay systems by writing clean code, conducting reviews, and collaborating with designers.
- Create New and Maintain Existing Tools for Designers and Artists: Develop, integrate, and improve custom tools and editors to empower designers and artists and enhance their content creation workflows.
- Participate in Development Scheduling: Collaborate with producers and project managers to estimate tasks, create development schedules, and monitor progress to ensure milestones are met.
- Build Screens, Widgets, and Other UI Elements: Architect and implement extensible, responsive UI elements like screens and widgets in close collaboration with the design team to realize their vision.
- Review Feature Designs and Provide Input on Costs and Possible Alternatives: Review feature designs and wireframes to provide technical feedback on feasibility, costs, and potential implementation alternatives.
- Work Closely in a Highly Collaborative and Agile Environment: Actively participate in an agile environment, collaborating closely with producers, artists, designers, and other programmers to integrate systems seamlessly.
- Build and Support Tools that Improve Workflows: Identify workflow inefficiencies across disciplines and build tools to automate tasks and streamline pipelines.
- Game Performance Optimization: Conduct performance analysis and profiling to optimize rendering pipelines, animations, and other interactions for overall game performance.
- Resolve Game Issues: Troubleshoot and resolve specific game performance issues, including those related to profiling, memory, CPU, run-time, and load times.
To be successful in this role, your background includes:
- Experience & Track Record: You'll need a Bachelor’s in CS (or equivalent experience), over 8 years in software development, and a proven history of shipping multiple online games from prototype to launch on online PC, console, or mobile.
- Expert Programming Skills: You must be an expert-level in C#, along with strong experience using source control systems like GIT or Perforce.
- Engine & Systems Architecture: Deep proficiency with Unity is required, and multiple game engines are nice to have, plus an expert ability to architect complex gameplay systems (e.g., AI, multiplayer, controls, RPG systems).
- Performance Optimization: You should have proven experience profiling, troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance across all platforms, tackling issues with memory, CPU, and rendering.
- Mobile & UI Development: Experience in mobile development for both Android and iOS is needed, along with familiarity with UI frameworks such as Unity GUI or NGUI.
- Team & Workflow: You must be a strong communicator and problem-solver who thrives in an Agile or Kanban environment, able to work effectively both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
- Communication skills: Strong communication skills in French and English.
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Top Skills
C#
Git
Perforce
Ui Frameworks
Unity
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The Company
What We Do
Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games. We merge consumer behavior with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the palm of player’s hands.
We have partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro, and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises.
Our games have generated hundreds of millions of downloads including Marvel Contest of Champions, Disney Mirrorverse, Shop Titans, Transformers: Forged to Fight, Mini Guns, Fast & Furious 6: The Game, Fast & Furious: Legacy, and Blastron. Many of these games have also received multiple awards such as Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, we have studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, and Seoul. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
