PRELOADED is seeking a Game Developer to join our team, with a great track record of delivering quality games and playful experiences.
As a Game Developer, you will be part of our growing Engineering team, working with the product team and our clients to deliver immersive, playful and genuinely innovative experiences.
We're looking for developers who can work in small, close-knit, cross-functional teams and take ownership of groundbreaking projects with cutting-edge technology.
This is a hybrid role that requires the flexibility to spend 2-3 days in our Finsbury Park Studio, and reports to the Head of Engineering.
Demonstrable knowledge of C# development skills in Unity - experience in software design, systems architecture design, problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting (mobile and XR/AR experience is a plus).
Demonstrable experience of shipping 3 to 5 end-to-end projects using standard software development practices; and working on a project from start to finish (including tasks like: technical investigation, testing, delivery).
Work either solo or with the Technical Lead to understand and de-risk client requirements during the Discovery phase of a project, by identifying future issues and making recommendations to mitigate them.
Ensure technical implementations are suitable, scalable, achievable, and innovative (where possible) within the brief, budget and time.
Validate the technical feasibility of the Game Design and Art Direction, and help to define the technical approach accordingly.
Create (and iterate on) Technical Design Documents for Client Review.
Write efficient, robust and reusable code that meets the coding standards.
Demonstrate clear communication with the other team members on a project; this includes communicating progress, flagging technical risks and blockers, managing technical expectations, and eliciting and exchanging help or feedback.
Provide clear documentation on a project to ensure everyone is on the same page, knowledge is shared, and to facilitate ease of onboarding, handovers and additional phases of development.
Be introduced and start meeting weekly with your onboarding Buddy, there to help you settle in.
Get introduced to your first PRELOADED project and completion of a mini-brief to ease you into the product team.
Shortlist your favourite game on the arcade machine
Be deeply involved in your project, taking ownership of the technical requirements and development of the project.
Working with the project team, creative lead and other disciplines to outline the technical requirements, aligned to audience and business requirements.
Broaden your knowledge across diverse areas of game development and emerging technologies, through workshops and discussions with the wider Engineering team.
Have presented your work during the company showcase and championed the project from a technical perspective.
Contributed to our own internal code libraries to allow us to reuse core systems across projects and accelerate our technical processes - disseminated through team workshops and Lunch n Learn sessions.
First things first, you will meet the Head of Engineering and a senior member of the Engineering team for a 1 hour chat to assess how your experience and skills meet the role outlined, and what you can bring to the team.
If your skills line up, we'd like to take an additional 90 minutes for you to walk us through a project you've worked on (we are happy to sign an NDA).
Salary :
Highly competitive salary, benchmarked by the industry and reviewed annually inline with performance.
Bonus scheme :
A discretionary bonus scheme based on PRELOADED's financial performance, allowing everyone to share in our collective success.
Share save scheme :
A share save scheme which allows you to benefit from the year-on-year increase in share price without market risk.
Work / Life balance:
This is a hybrid role, and flexibility to travel to our Finsbury Park studio is essential.
We operate flexible working hours so you can do "the school run" or shorter / longer days to suit your needs and there is a very strict no-crunch policy.
Holiday :
Everyone starts with a 26 day entitlement plus the usual bank holidays.
Alongside a cash plan which subsidises your healthcare needs we also offer life assurance for all employees.
Travel Loans :
For anyone wanting to travel into the studio we offer loans to pay the upfront cost of travel, helping you be smarter with your money.
PRELOADED is a BAFTA-winning games studio using emerging technologies to create playful, purposeful experiences for global partners.
We build games and immersive products to help organisations such as Disney, LEGO and BBC reach mainstream audiences, and partner with technology platforms such as Niantic, Meta, and Google to imagine the future
