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Nixxes Software is an industry-leading Dutch company specializing in video game design, development and porting.
Working alongside global partners since 1999, our work is fuelled by a love for gaming and commitment to innovation. Our Utrecht based team prides itself on delivering the best possible experience for every gamer, regardless of platform. In July 2021 Nixxes joined PlayStation Studios to focus on delivering the highest-quality gameplay experiences for PlayStation fans.
For our studio in Utrecht, Netherlands, we’re looking for a highly collaborative, passionate and skilled Senior Graphics Programmer that can support our graphics programming team and implement high-level graphical effects as well as making low-level enhancements to the graphics engines we work with to enable and optimize these.
Essential Requirements:
- You have at least 7 years of previous experience as a programmer in the games industry or a related industry
- You have up to date knowledge of the current APIs such as DirectX 11/12 and OpenGL 4.x and Vulkan.
- You have a profound understanding of state of the art graphics and lighting techniques.
- You have a solid mathematical background.
- You have a pragmatic, hands-on problem solving mentality.
- You are fluent in C++ and other applicable programming languages;
- You aim to design and write well-structured, readable and maintainable code.
- You have strong debugging skills
- You have a strong understanding of optimization techniques.
- You work well in a team and on a large code base.
- You have good communication skills in written and spoken English.
- You have good understanding of code performance and complexity.
- You work well in an environment with deadlines and milestones
Plusses:
- (Native) Dutch speaker.
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