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 skilled Game Programmer to join our team. In this
pivotal role, you'll leverage your knowledge to build and maintain advanced
systems and tools as well as optimizing workflows.
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In this role, you can expect to:
- Code Craftsmanship: Write, Test, and Ship Quality: You'll write, test, and
maintain clean, efficient, and reusable code for diverse gameplay features or
robust UI elements, adhering to our high coding standards and best practices.
- Team Synergy: Collaborate, Review, and Grow Together: Actively participate in
code reviews, share knowledge, and contribute to a supportive, highly
collaborative, and agile development environment.
- Problem Solver: Debug, Optimize, and Innovate: Debug and resolve complex
software issues, providing effective and lasting solutions that enhance our
products.
- Clear Communication: Document, Update, and Inform: Maintain clear and concise
documentation for your code and project-related materials, while effectively
communicating progress, challenges, and updates to the team and stakeholders.
- Continuous Learner: Adapt, Evolve, and Master: Embrace continuous learning,
improve your technical skills, and stay current with industry best practices
and emerging technologies.
- Tooling Excellence: Empower Workflows, Enhance Creativity: Build and support
powerful tools that improve the workflows of artists, designers, and other
programmers, integrating them seamlessly into existing content creation
pipelines.
- Strategic Impact: Design, Deliver, and Drive Features: Review feature
designs, provide valuable input on costs and alternatives, and efficiently
manage tasks to meet project deadlines and milestones.
To be successful in this role, your background includes:
- Experience & Track Record: You'll need a Bachelor’s in CS (or equivalent)
combined with over 3 years in software development in online gaming (PC,
console or mobile).
- Solid Programming Skills: You must highly skilled in C#, along with strong
experience using source control systems like GIT or Perforce.
- Engine & Systems Architecture: Solid proficiency with Unity is required, and
multiple game engines is nice to have.
- 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.
- Performance Optimization: As a bonus you could have experience profiling,
troubleshooting, and optimizing game performance across all platforms,
tackling issues with memory, CPU, and rendering.
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! Ourbenefits
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: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer
to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group
volunteer days off-site!
- Hybrid Work: Kabammers typically spend at least two days per week in office.
We believe in blending in-office collaboration with the freedom of remote
work, and want everyone to have flexibility while fostering strong
connections.
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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.
