Pocket Pinata Interactive Hiring for Intermediate Multiplayer Unity 3D Software Engineer at Remote Full Time

Pocket Pinata Interactive is a Vancouver mobile game development studio practicing the art and science of making free-to-play games. We are looking for like minded individuals to join our cause as a full-time Unity 3D Software Developer Engineer 2.

You are a passionate gamer who enjoys mobile games programming and tinkers with Unity 3D. You are a big fan of Clean Code and software design patterns. You relax by reading tech journals and sketching UML diagrams. You are a lifelong learner who is results-driven and detail-oriented. Most of all, you are looking for a friendly working environment filled with like-minded individuals at a studio that prizes integrity, transparency and personal growth.

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Perks: *

• Good extended health and dental plan
• Flexible work schedule
• Work-from-home (some restrictions apply)

You will:

• Proactively collaborate with artists, producers, designers and engineers in an agile development environment
• Monitor, mentor and direct engineers under your technical supervision to maximize their potential, their efficiency, and their adherence to the studio’s code quality and system security standard
• Proactively gets up-to-speed on assigned game projects with minimal supervision
• Proactively gets up-to-speed on assigned work or game systems without supervision
• Assess visual, technical and design specifications and provide timely constructive feedback and reasonably accurate work estimates with minimal supervision
• Design and implement features and systems to spec and on time with minimal supervision according to the studio’s code quality and security standards
• Own the project systems assigned or touched – its technical design and code quality; fix and improve its design and quality so that it’s aligned with the studio’s code quality and system security standards as needed
• Troubleshoot and fix difficult-to-reproduce and platform-specific technical issues in a reasonable time with minimal supervision
• Communicate and document technical designs and decisions effectively in verbal or written form, via diagrams, documents, and/ir code comments
• Update and expand your technical knowledge and skills to stay ahead of industry developments

You are a great fit for our team if you have…

• 4+ years of industry game development experience
• 2+ years of industry experience with Unity 3D
• 2+ years of C# programming experience or another object-oriented programming language
• 3+ years of experience applying UML to describe systems design
• 3+ years of experience applying Clean Code principles to your code
• 1+ years of experience implementing multiplayer client-server asynchronous gameplay or peer-to-peer synchronous gameplay
• 1+ years of experience with Unity’s performance and memory profiling systems
• Experience troubleshooting Android and/or IOS-specific game issues
• Experience developing and optimizing scenes or game systems for performance in Unity 3D
• Experience developing in-editor gameplay tools and pipelines in Unity 3D
• Experience with Git or other revision control system
• Excellent technical problem-solving and communication skills
• Strong cross-discipline communication and collaboration skills
• Proactive and forward-thinking lifelong learner able to quickly familiarize yourself with complex legacy systems and code
• A detail-oriented mindset with a strong ability to multitask

Having the following skills is a plus…

• A degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with Unity’s data, shader, lighting, and animation systems
• Experience with Unity RESTful networking and JSON solutions
• Experience with Python and RESTful server programming
• Knowledgeable on Agile Development Practices (Scrum/Kanban)

Job Type: Full-time