At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming.
We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective
skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound
together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what
it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…
We're looking for a highly experienced and skilled Senior Programmer to join our
team. In this pivotal role, you'll leverage your deep knowledge to build and
maintain advanced systems and tools, optimizing workflows and ensuring high
performance for our game teams. You'll lead large-scale projects, tackle complex
issues, and play a key role in mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
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In this role, you can expect to:
- Architect and Maintain Gameplay Systems: Design, implement, and maintain
robust, scalable gameplay systems by writing clean code, conducting reviews,
and collaborating with designers.
- Create New and Maintain Existing Tools for Designers and Artists: Develop,
integrate, and improve custom tools and editors to empower designers and
artists and enhance their content creation workflows.
- Participate in Development Scheduling: Collaborate with producers and project
managers to estimate tasks, create development schedules, and monitor
progress to ensure milestones are met.
- Build Screens, Widgets, and Other UI Elements: Architect and implement
extensible, responsive UI elements like screens and widgets in close
collaboration with the design team to realize their vision.
- Review Feature Designs and Provide Input on Costs and Possible Alternatives:
Review feature designs and wireframes to provide technical feedback on
feasibility, costs, and potential implementation alternatives.
- Work Closely in a Highly Collaborative and Agile Environment: Actively
participate in an agile environment, collaborating closely with producers,
artists, designers, and other programmers to integrate systems seamlessly.
- Build and Support Tools that Improve Workflows: Identify workflow
inefficiencies across disciplines and build tools to automate tasks and
streamline pipelines.
- Game Performance Optimization: Conduct performance analysis and profiling to
optimize rendering pipelines, animations, and other interactions for overall
game performance.
- Resolve Game Issues: Troubleshoot and resolve specific game performance
issues, including those related to profiling, memory, CPU, run-time, and load
times.
To be successful in this role, your background includes:
- Experience & Track Record: You'll need a Bachelor’s in CS (or equivalent
experience), over 8 years in software development, and a proven history of
shipping multiple online games from prototype to launch on online PC,
console, or mobile.
- Expert Programming Skills: You must be an expert-level in C#, along with
strong experience using source control systems like GIT or Perforce.
- Engine & Systems Architecture: Deep proficiency with Unity is required, and
multiple game engines is nice to have, plus an expert ability to architect
complex gameplay systems (e.g., AI, multiplayer, controls, RPG systems).
- Performance Optimization: You should have proven experience profiling,
troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance across all platforms,
tackling issues with memory, CPU, and rendering.
- Mobile & UI Development: Experience in mobile development for both Android
and iOS is needed, along with familiarity with UI frameworks such as Unity
GUI or NGUI.
- Team & Workflow: You must be a strong communicator and problem-solver who
thrives in an Agile or Kanban environment, able to work effectively both
independently and as part of a collaborative team.
- Communication Skills: Strong communication skills in French and English.
Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our
people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and
more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:
- Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits
cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services
such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy,
acupuncture, and much more.
- DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our
benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal
treatments and drugs.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so
you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and
allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or
Personal Spending Account.
- RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for
their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days
with us.
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off,
paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis
management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for
emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare
providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your
home.
- Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and
professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an
education stipend.
- Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls
within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role
or level-up to a promotion.
- Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver,
Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the
rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s
South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our
people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
- Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the
communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers
every year that Agents of Change organize.
- Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work
styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2
days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options
are also available for certain positions within Kabam.
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Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and
inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the
listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit
for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can
create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social
multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology,
and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions
[https://www.playcontestofchampions.com/], Shop Titans
[https://playshoptitans.com/], and more have generated hundreds of millions of
downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice
and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and
Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and
in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a
diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and
potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications
and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex
(including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,
political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition,
genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status,
prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with
federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will
be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the
selection process.
