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Get a job: Red 5 Studios is hiring a Lead UI Programmer

Firefall developer Red 5 Studios is looking for an experienced UI coder to join the team at the studios' Irvine, CA offices and work with the programming team to improve the game's front-end.

September 1, 2015

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Lead UI ProgrammerRed 5 Studios

Location: Irvine, CA

The Programming team at Red 5 Studios is comprised of some of the brightest minds in the games industry. Our team challenges conventional practices and follows a variety of approaches in producing creative solutions to build an online game played by millions.

Whether it’s working on large scale deployment, virtual cloud environments, computer graphics, gameplay programming, tools development, in-game UI, web-enabled technologies, artificial intelligence, distributed computing, or databases; there is always a thought-provoking challenge for our engineers covering the full spectrum of computer science.

We take pride in our development process and encourage ownership of projects - if you build it, you own it. At Red 5, we are building a programming team that fosters creativity and autonomy in a large-scale development environment.

Responsibilities

  • Work in a collaborative, creative environment, have an impact on user facing features that will enhance the overall player experience

  • Gather feedback from the community team to improve the fun factor in the game and bring Firefall to the forefront of persistent world gaming

  • Work directly with the designers to insure that their vision is shared with your ability to enhance existing features and add new systems extending an established code base

  • Modernize existing systems and implement complete new game systems as required

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of direct UI experience in a multiplayer AAA title (MMO and FPS preferred)

  • Demonstrable experience successfully leading and mentoring an engineering team

  • Solid engineering/programming background in C++ as well as OO design principles

  • Previous LUA experience

  • Familiarity with GUI engines and their functionality

  • Strong organizational skills with a good sense of design with outstanding communication skills

Pluses

  • Unrelenting passion for games

  • Experience working in XML, Agile and 3D development environments

Interested? Apply now.

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