Senior Animation Programmer

Description

The company is a game developer in Poland with more than 30 years in the industry and a team of over 500 people across studios in Wroclaw and Warsaw.

It focuses on open-world action games and storytelling, and one of its zombie games has been played by over 45 million players worldwide.

The company has ambitious plans ahead and is hiring people to help it take on new challenges.

Responsibilities

• Research, build, maintain and refine gameplay and cinematic animation systems so that AI, designers and animators can use them flexibly.
• Own animation features end to end, from authoring tools through to the engine runtime.
• Work with programmers, designers and artists to gather requirements, help solve problems and make the animation workflow more efficient.
• Partner with the animation leads and the animation director to raise animation quality across the game.
• Profile complex data pipelines and tools, then find and remove bottlenecks in performance, memory, network and I/O.
• Write documentation for the gameplay and cinematic teams.
• Keep up with new developments in animation technology.

Requirements

• At least five years of programming work.
• Strong C and C++ skills.
• Sharp problem-solving and debugging ability.
• Experience with multithreaded code and allocator-aware design.
• Experience optimising memory and performance.
• Hands-on work with graph-based animation, blend trees and state machines in tools such as Unreal, Havok Animation, Morpheme or similar.
• A solid grasp of 3D maths and linear algebra.
• Skill in algorithm design, with an understanding of complexity and software architecture.
• Code that is tidy, easy to maintain, extensible and reusable.
• Strong communication, enthusiasm and initiative.
• Very good English.
• Shipped at least one multiplayer title.
• Knowledge of animation technologies including compression, motion synthesis, ragdoll physics and IK.
• Experience building UX and tools.
• Console programming experience.
• Experience with Maya, MotionBuilder or other digital content creation tools.
• Python experience.
• Familiarity with animation processing and deployment pipelines.

Conditions

Flexible working hours.

No dress code.

Benefits

• A dedicated buddy to help with day-to-day work.
• Private medical care, life insurance, health campaigns and gifts for special occasions.
• Full support from a dedicated HR Business Partner.
• A development budget for each employee, plus two extra paid days a year for training and CSR.
• Stable career paths, along with internal and external training.
• Funded English and Polish language classes.
• Offices in Wroclaw and Warsaw with chillout zones and a fully equipped kitchen, a gym at the Wroclaw office and a free car park in Warsaw with limited spaces.