Multiplayer Systems Programmer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Multiplayer Systems Programmer (Gamedev): Architecting and refining multiplayer game systems, developing technical design specifications, and implementing code. Focus on building multithreaded, multi-process, real-time systems, and tuning them for performance and reliability.

Location: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Salary: $80,000 - $175,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.

What you will do

• Work with other programmers to architect and refine multiplayer game systems.
• Work with designers, artists and other personnel involved in the development of products as required.
• Develop and author all phases of technical design specifications and complete implementation.
• Write clear, maintainable, portable code.
• Test and refine code and systems throughout the development cycle of the project.
• Accurately estimate your schedules and delivers high quality work products to that schedule.

Requirements

• You possess 3+ years of professional software development experience writing client/server applications in C++.
• You have expertise in building multithreaded, multi-process, real-time systems.
• You are skilled in client/server message passing architectures.
• You have experience tuning real-time systems for performance and reliability.
• You have excellent analytical and mathematical skills.
• You have strong interpersonal skills and problem-solving ability.

Nice to have

• You have experience with low-level socket programming.
• You are experienced with reflection and code generation systems.
• You have experience with compression algorithms.
• You have expertise in Unix/Linux/Win32 operating systems.
• You have experience with the persistence of distributed systems.
• You have game industry experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salaries and a generous benefits program.
• Offices located in some of North America’s best cities.
• U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.