UI Programmer
UK Remote or West Midlands Based – Birmingham/Worcestershire Area
Please Note: We welcome applicants that prefer to work from home, so please get in touch!
Role and Purpose
We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to help develop and deliver high-quality game code for AAA Unreal Engine projects, both for Flix’s own proprietary projects and high profile co-development partners.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the UI Team to develop fully realised and working game UI.
- Communicate and collaborate with the Programming and Design Teams to assist in delivering polished and immersive UI that meet design and technical requirements.
- Work within the specification guidelines of the project and technology, keeping performance in mind as well as working with others to debug potential issues.
- Profiling and optimising code for memory and performance considerations.
- Be responsible for scoping tasks, working to deadlines, and communicating with production if problems arise.
- Liaise with design and production to establish achievable goals.
- Communicate with QA to help track down and fix bugs.
Requirements
- 1 year of professional experience producing game UI with C++.
- A good working knowledge of C++ and experience producing production quality code.
- Games specific UI experience including animation and a design eye for detail on layouts and usability for UX.
- Strong understanding of content structure and management code bases with the ability to quickly learn existing code bases.
- Good level of debugging skills across all required languages, with the ability to perform profiling and optimisation.
- Able to quickly create prototypes to match design criteria.
- Ability to put together high-quality production UI systems for both single and multiplayer games.
Desirable Skills
- Multiplayer development experience.
- Experienced with giving and receiving code reviews.
- Knowledge of other areas of game creation.
- Experience developing for and deploying to a console (Xbox One, PS4 or other).
- Experience working on and maintaining live games.
- 1 year of Unreal Engine 4 experience. Demonstrate excellent understanding of Unreal Engines tools.
- Knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 blueprint and UMG logic and gameplay logic assemblies.
- professional experience with front end web development HTML5 / CSS / JavaScript (Typescript preferred).
- Experience with Coherent UI for Unreal Engine using Coherent Gameface.
Demonstrate The Ability To…
- Think critically about the requirements of a game UI.
- Self motivate and have pride in your work.
- Work and communicate well within a team and studio environment.
- Create high quality UML for planning the correct structure for your code.
- Create prototypes and wireframes to demonstrate intent across all stages of development, from design to implementation.
- Be adaptive and master new tools in the process if required.
- Take critique and guidance from others well.
- Manage your time effectively to achieve the highest quality results.
Portfolio
Please send through any relevant documents/links to your CV, cover letter and/or portfolio. If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners. Links to an online portfolio are preferable, otherwise we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.
Send your application to – careers@flixinteractive.com
What We Offer
Based just outside Birmingham, Flix offers a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio. The team is made up of welcoming, passionate, active gamers that support one another in all aspects of development.
We also offer the following;
- Private healthcare.
- Additional time off over Christmas on top of standard holidays.
- Bonus scheme.
- Team outings and events.
- Summer and Christmas parties.
If you have the drive and skills for making games and think you have what it takes to work within our team then we’d love to hear from you.
For more information visit our site – www.flixinteractive.com