Senior Client Engineer

Company: Playable Worlds
Location: San Marcos
Posted on: April 3, 2021

Job Description:

Playable Worlds is looking for a Senior Client Engineer to work on our front-end development for a massively multiplayer online game. This individual, reporting to the Lead Client Engineer, will be focused on high-level client architecture tasks for the development of gameplay, core platform, and tools technology. This individual should be self-motivating, inquisitive, open to experimentation, and excited to tackle interesting technical challenges that have not been attempted in massively multiplayer online games before.

Please note: during this pandemic, our team is working remotely until circumstances allow us to return to in-office work. Must be authorized to work in the United States and available to work from our office in Northern San Diego once circumstances allow

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience in the video games Industry.
• Expertise with Unity, particularly around inputs, player controllers, art pipelines, physics, and client/server replication.
• Familiarity with massive multiplayer online game development and production
  cycles, including the development of internal world-building tools.
  
  
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interface directly with artists,
    designers, production, and other engineering leads.
    
    Preferred Qualifications:
    
    
    • At least 3 shipped game titles, with at least 1 being in multiplayer gaming.
    • Familiarity with embedded scripting languages such as Javascript, Lua, or Python.
    • Experience with ECS-based architectures such as DOTS is a considerable plus.
    • Comfort with helping to design and develop new ways of delivering client-side content such as UI and art assets in a dynamic, on-demand fashion.
      
      Playable Worlds, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants of all ages, identities, and backgrounds are encouraged to apply!
      
      Job descriptions are not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee.
      
      Playable Worlds Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
      
      We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Playable Worlds will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Applicants of all ages, identities, and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Playable Worlds will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
      
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