
Seismic Squirrel
Remote Jobs
Videogame studio, makers of Aether & Iron.
2 Jobs
• Administer and coordinate game production under the Creative Director's direction. • Support the Directors with project scheduling and team coordination. • Support the Directors with tracking and organizing game assets throughout the Asset Pipelines. • Be the voice of reality: What is possible? What isn't? • Actively collaborate with the development team, finding risks and openly communicating progress and concerns. • Help to create and maintain project documentation. • Administer internal and external game testing efforts, reporting on the results. • Help manage relationships and progress with outside vendors. • Analyze other games and the videogame marketplace. • Assist with onboarding new-hires, familiarizing them with our tools and processes.
• Lead engineering efforts, mentoring, effectively coordinating and delegating engineering duties • Prototype new gameplay ideas and mechanics • Creatively apply engineering best practices to implement architecture and programming for our games • Own and support our DevOps pipelines utilizing tools including Unity Cloud Build and Bitbucket • Identify and modify existing frameworks according to our project needs, building some game frameworks and subsystems from scratch as needed • Engage in all aspects of game programming: Systems, UI / UX, APIs, internationalization and localization, optimization, and instrumentation • Expand games from PC to console platforms • Troubleshoot code and fix bugs • Mentor junior programmers • Educate and explain programming concerns to the rest of the Development Team • Work with the Design Team to maintain UX quality throughout the development process • Actively collaborate with the rest of the Development Team, openly communicating progress and problems, helping us set realistic project timelines and expectations • Participate in internal game testing and feedback • Help to create and maintain core technical documentation • Balance and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines, working within agreed timeframes and budgets