Dovetail Games Hiring for Build Engineer Job at Chatham, England Full Time

Overview: Dovetail Games is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all, regardless to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) education background and game preferences as we seek to recruit the very best from a diverse talent pool. We are committed to promoting diversity, and all applicants will be considered on their merit, qualifications, competence, and talent regardless of any protected characteristics. At the individuals request all roles will be considered for part time, term time only and job shares.

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Our people can be based “where they do their best work” from either our HQ or from their home (UK based only / VISA sponsorship available on qualifying roles). However occasional travel to HQ office will be required for key meetings and events.*

At Dovetail Games we are passionate about empowering our people to build beautiful worlds, craft breath-taking games and do the best work of their career to deliver our vision: “By Enthusiasts, For Enthusiasts”.
Our studio is situated in a river-front building in the heart of the Historic Dockyard in Chatham, Kent, UK. We are growing fast, developing our games using cutting-edge technology and delivering these on multiple platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and 5 and Xbox One and Series S/X

We’re looking for someone with a passion for technology, software, and game development! At Dovetail, we’re committed to building enthusiast-driven games based around:

• Large open-world online multiplayer environments
• Exciting gameplay, relying on skill, physics, exploration, and competition
• Cutting edge rendering and detailed mechanical and natural simulation technologies
• Development of multi-platform next generation titles

We’re striving to improve performance, develop and optimise engine extensions, including the latest game engine features. If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:

• Working with the central team to design and implement methodologies for software development in a multiplatform environment
• Implement or integrate tools for our code and asset building, deployment, software analysis and reporting infrastructure
• Ensure that development tools are used effectively
• Facilitate the continuous integration process: configuration, documentation, optimization, and support of the infrastructure components
• Contribute to the development of working practices

Person Specifications: Required

• Experience in the software development cycle
• Experience in source control, automatic building, and unit testing tools
• Good knowledge of Python, C#, C++
• Experience with quality assurance process
• Knowledge of game development pipelines and a strong interest in game technology development
• Good communication and collaboration skills

Preferred

• Degree in Computer Science or similarsubject
• Experience with Unreal engine
• Very good knowledge of one or more of: Infrastructure provisioning and system administration, pipeline tools development, integration tools development, monitoring tools development, data processing tools.
• Experience with next-gen game platforms
• Experience with web services
• Familiarity with agile principles

About Dovetail Games:

• You will have a direct and significant impact on the future of our games
• You’ll experience an environment where you will be challenged but supported
• We have an industry leading work-life balance
• Opportunity to work fully UK based remote
• VISA sponsorship available on qualifying roles
• Explorer policy , allowing you to visit the world whilst working for 4 weeks of the year.
• Half Day Pay Day holiday – adding 6 days to allowance.
• My Rewards benefits package including health cash plan, cycle to work, eyecare and tech
• Green Car benefits scheme provided by Tusker
• Gymflex membership
• Amazon Voucher on your birthday.
• Branded merch and swag
• Free parking
• Free fruit, tea & coffee, and a stocked pantry
• Access to funded fitness events and health checks.
• Regular social and sporting activities, including charity fundraising.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent