Senior Programmer/Developer

Senior Engine Programmer Location Hybrid work in Toronto, ON : At Alpha Channel, we are building something new together. We are a team of developers, dedicated to creating bold, new and exciting experiences through pushing the boundaries of art and technology. We are incredibly grateful to be recognized as a GI.biz Best Place to Work, 2023. As a small studio, we set out to do game dev differently and so to win this award gives us such a sense of pride.

We are excited for the future of the studio and to continue sharing our creative projects. Come and join us in building a diverse studio that values imagination and the individual.

As a Senior Engine Programmer at Alpha Channel, you will be a part of the core technology team working directly with the technical director in maintaining, developing and supporting engine features along with helping the team deliver their features.

We are currently using Unreal Engine 5 for our production, and you will get a chance to work across many parts of the pipeline including integration, engine improvements, CI/CD pipeline and general ownership of the technology pipeline used across the entire company.

As a part of this role, you need to be comfortable interacting with developers across all disciplines to guide them across the best practices used to develop our projects, and you will be included in all of the planning stages in delivering the technology across the entire company.

Work with a cross-discipline team to ensure the game engine is performing as required.

Analyze and continuously strive to improve and optimize engine and game code to allow for open world streaming.

Be aware of the latest engine changes happening across variety of branches and ensure the game team is following best practices.

Support our game code across a variety of different platforms ensuring compilation, performance and memory is within budget.

You have previous experience working on game engines, whether it be public or private engines.

Extensive experience with C++.

Able to work autonomously with little supervision.

Excited to work on new features improving workflows for the production pipeline.

Second Interview: next you will meet with technical director and a programming team member to do a more in-depth technical conversation / problem solving sessions to give you the opportunity to see how we work together as a team.

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