Lead Game Developer
Viacom -
Cairo, EgyptPosted 5 years ago52Applicants for4 open positions
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Viacom Inc is an American multinational mass media conglomerate company with interests primarily in film and television. It is currently the world's ninth largest media company in terms of revenue and has headquarters in New York City.
Viacom Digital is looking for a talented, self-motivated, and innovative individual with a passion for gaming and technology. We are currently seeking Lead Game Developers to work on upcoming gaming and interactive projects. Deep understanding and knowledge of game development fundamentals and sharp programming skills are required.
The is a remote position (work from home) with the opportunity to occasionally travel for business and team meetings.
- Design and implement game features and components
- Take a proactive role in improving processes and tech pipelines.
- Experience with engineering best practices including continuous integration, code reviews, and unit testing.
- Work closely with the leadership team (engineering and product) to help to build & executing product roadmap.
- Research and investigate new technologies and how they can be used for our games
- Quickly iterate through different proof of concepts and prototypes
- Lead and own performance optimizations (rendering, loading, memory usage, and file size optimizations, etc.)
- Troubleshoot and solve critical issues on game projects
- Effectively communicate project status to extended games team
- Write tools to automate reoccurring tasks during the project life cycle
- Write high-quality code and unit tests and conduct regular cross-team code reviews
- Able to guide and mentor junior team members of the team.
Job Requirements
Basic Qualifications
- A solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming
- Experience working with game engines and frameworks (Unity, Unreal, Sprite Kit, libGDX, etc.)
- Proven capability in problem-solving and the ability to come up with innovative solutions
- Experience with profiling, along with performance optimization (memory leaks, performance analysis, etc.)
- Able to write tools & scripts to help designers & artists be more productive.
- Ability to work with a cross-functional team including artists, designers, QA, etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- 3+ years of relevant domain experience
Additional Qualifications
- Experience developing native applications on iOS and/or Android
- Experience with scrum agile process
- Network protocols and patterns (HTTP, REST), programming and debugging
- BS or Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent
