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Senior Game Developer at Hometopia, An Everyrealm Portfolio Company.

Everyrealm

Everyrealm

Software Engineering
United States
Posted 6+ months ago

Hometopia is a seriously satisfying co-op building simulation game that turns players into designers and developers of the best-looking homes in the virtual world. Build better, together with Hometopia.

Created by the team behind 25 million game downloads from titles including Design This Home and Design This Castle, Hometopia is part of the Everyrealm family of companies.

What you'll do:

  • Write high-quality code that is clean, performant, extensible, and portable.
  • Experience both working with existing codebases as well as starting projects from scratch
  • Implement game behavior that emphasizes intuitive, responsive, and delightful UX
  • Be creative. Brainstorm, design, and pitch gameplay updates
  • Project manage your updates from start to finish, including assessing risk, setting goals, following up with collaborators, and ensuring timely delivery.
  • Be a team player, including by helping teammates solve problems, participating in code reviews, documenting features, fixing bugs, and cleaning up old code.
  • Understand the full game development process and flexibly fill gaps. For example, you will need to wireframe UIs, tweak particles, position/resize art assets, and more.
  • Thoroughly test your updates throughout the development cycle and deploy those updates to millions of players.
  • 5+ years of experience shipping games with Unity (C#), Unreal (C++) or other similar engines across various platforms
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures
  • An understanding of the human elements of software engineering: empathy, compassion, and patience.
  • Demonstrated curiosity for learning new tools, technologies, and ways of working.
  • Creativity and a good eye for design
  • Strong organization and prioritization skills
  • Passion for playing and making games.
  • Portfolio: Links to your past work to demonstrate your technical and creative skills.
  • Code Samples: One or more samples of your code (files or web links like Github are both fine).