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Get a job: Join Jackbox Games as a Gameplay Software Engineer
The Chicago-based studio is on the hunt for a Gameplay Software Engineer with at least one shipped title under their belt to architect and implement gameplay as a member of its team.
February 20, 2018
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Gameplay Software Engineer, Jackbox Games
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Every year Jackbox Games makes a lot of games on a lot of platforms. For the last 4 years we’ve made a new edition of The Jackbox Party Pack, each of which is a collection of 5 party games. And we target as many platforms as we can find, including Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, Amazon Fire TV, and Apple TV.
With a small engineering staff of 6 people, each member of the team can end up working on multiple games and multiple platforms. We generally have a lead engineer assigned to each game and each platform. That means, as a gameplay and platform engineer, you could own one or two games and one or two platforms simultaneously. If that sounds like your idea of a complete breakfast, keep reading!
Responsibilities:
Architect and implement gameplay as defined by the design team
Contribute to and help maintain our technical gameplay pipeline
Participate in game design meetings and preproduction to ensure the technical success of the game
Develop and maintain common platform code for one or more platforms
Shepherd builds through the submission, review, and release process
Participate in prototyping and experimentation as we explore and develop new product ideas
Participate in code reviews and the release process for all relevant projects
Work with both internal and external QA teams to find and fix issues as they come up during production and testing
Candidates Should…
Have shipped a game (or similar application) on a major platform
Have a mastery of core software engineering concepts: data structures, design patterns, algorithms, etc.
Be intimately familiar with at least one major programming language and have competency in C/C++
Write clean, elegant code that can be easily understood by fellow software engineers
Be professional, responsible, dedicated, friendly, patient and enthusiastic
And it would be nice if you also have…
An understanding of game mechanics and intuition for what makes a game successful
Great party game ideas
Shipped products on iOS and/or tvOS
Interested? Apply now.
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