Company Description

Smoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans. SGI is fearless in creating IP and boldly partners with renowned brands to develop a wide range of world-class, immersive titles and interactive experiences that resonate with strategy gamers worldwide and entertain millions of casual players every day. Company Description

Smoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans. SGI is fearless in creating IP and boldly partners with renowned brands to develop a wide range of world-class, immersive titles and interactive experiences that resonate with strategy gamers worldwide and entertain millions of casual players every day.

Job Overview:

As a

Lead Programmer

at Smoking Gun Interactive (SGI), you're a talented and driven person who enjoys working on great projects. You have experience in a variety of areas of game development and are able and willing to work on any area of game programming needed, with a focus on full-stack development experience. You're experienced in mentoring and training programmers and are responsible for the oversight and management of a team of programmers.

Whilst this position is being offered on a remote basis, we are only able to consider applicants who are currently located in BC, and ideally within the greater Vancouver area

Requirements

In this role, you will:

Collaborate with the Technical Director to establish a unified technology vision for the project including writing and reviewing technical design documents; Produce high-quality, efficient, clean,



and modular code; Collect and document users' requirements and develop logical specifications; Research, evaluate and synthesize technical information to design, develop and test computer-based systems; Develop data, process and network models to optimize architecture and to evaluate the performance and reliability of designs; Plan, design and co-ordinate the development, integration and operation of computer-based systems; Assess, test, troubleshoot, document, upgrade and develop maintenance procedures for applications software; Lead and co-ordinate teams in the development of software and integrated information systems, process control software and other embedded software control systems; Show proactivity in identifying tasks/problems that need tackling, outside of known scheduled work, from refactoring to bug fixing; Be able to go above and beyond in their daily tasks as required; Provide mentorship and training for programmers to create an atmosphere of cooperation and learning; Provide and accept feedback on all aspects of code quality (performance, readability, testability, design); Demonstrate forward thinking in regards to what impact design and implementation decisions will have on the overall project during each phase of development; Work with Production in the creation and risk-management of project milestone goals and schedules; Coordinate the hiring, supervising and managing of other members of the team





To be successful in this role, you must have:

5+ years' experience as a programmer in the game industry and or related field; A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent; Passion for playing and creating innovative games - you consider yourself a gamer; Shipped at least one game as a senior or lead programmer; A natural affinity for being strongly self-motivated and an independent worker; Expert working knowledge of C++ and C#, Standard Library and Object Oriented Design; Strong understanding of general and 3D math, statistics and probability; Excellent problem-solving abilities, proven ability to tackle hard problems in creative ways; Excellent oral and written communication skills; A positive attitude with a desire to work within a team environment towards a common goal; An impressive ability to estimate work load and execute on the work in the time estimated; Contributed to planning product releases alongside production or project management; Mentored multiple programmers in both coding capabilities and forwarding their career

It would also be great if you had experience with:

Any of the following languages, Java, Lua, HLSL/Cg shaders; Mobile: iOS, Android; Test Driven Development; Visual Studio, Perforce; Unit testing and TDD for server development; C# server environments, AWS, Azure, GCP; Running a live server environment and supporting operations

Perks

10 days vacation leave 5 paid days personal leave 7 paid sick days Life Insurance & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Dependent Life Insurance Long Term Disability (LTD) Extended Healthcare Benefit Dental Care Hybrid working Training & Development

Salary Range: 110,000 to 140,000 CAD

📌 Senior Lead Programmer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Smoking Gun Interactive
📍 Winnipeg