Job Description

You are an experienced software developer with plenty of experience developing mobile games/applications with Unity 3D. You enjoy tinkering with multiplayer game solutions and tech stacks and you are knowledgeable with the industry best practices for implementing real-time networking communications. You are a big fan of software design patterns, enjoy reading the occasional tech journals and sketching out application systems architecture diagrams and server communications sequence diagrams. You are results-driven, detail-oriented and always seek self-improvement.


You also have an interest in RESTful and server-authoritative multiplayer cloud server development and you are looking for a friendly game studio filled with like-minded individuals with a team who prizes integrity, transparency and personal growth.


Pocket Pinata Interactive is looking for such an individual to join our game development family as a full-time Intermediate Software Engineer (SDE2) in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.


Perks:

• Good extended health and dental plan
• Flexible work schedule
• Work remotely or work on-premise
• Studio conveniently located next to the a Skytrain line

• Proactively collaborate with artists, producers, designers and engineers in an agile development environment
• Monitor, mentor and direct engineers under your technical supervision to maximize their potential, their efficiency, and their adherence to the studio?s code quality and system security standard
• Proactively gets up-to-speed on assigned game projects with minimal supervision
• Proactively gets up-to-speed on assigned work or game systems without supervision
• Assess visual, technical and design specifications and provide timely constructive feedback and reasonably accurate work estimates with minimal supervision
• Design and implement features and systems to spec and on time with minimal supervision according to the studio's code quality and security standards
• Own the project systems assigned or touched - its technical design and code quality; fix and improve its design and quality so that it?s aligned with the studio?s code quality and system security standards as needed
• Troubleshoot and fix difficult-to-reproduce and platform-specific technical issues in a reasonable time with minimal supervision
• Communicate and document technical designs and decisions effectively in verbal or written form, via diagrams, documents, and/ir code comments
• Update and expand your technical knowledge and skills to stay ahead of industry developments

• Designing, developing and maintaining a Unity 3D multiplayer game client
• Troubleshooting and resolving systems and multiplayer communication issues in a timely and risk-mitigating manner
• Collaborating with the server software team and peer client engineers to improve system maintainability, performance, reliability and security
• Actively leading technical discussions and encourage engineers to share opinions and incorporate ideas
• Actively mentoring other engineers to help grow their technical and tech coding and design skills
• Conducting code reviews
• Participating in a rotational on-call live application maintenance team
  

• 5+ years of professional test-driven software development experience
• 2+ years of experience developing Unity 3D applications utilizing the asset bundles / addressables system
• 2+ years of C# programming experience or equivalent object-oriented programming language
• 2+ years of practical experience with UML, clean code principles, and design patterns
• 2+ years hands-on experience troubleshooting performance and memory issues in a Unity 3D application
• 2+ years hands-on experience troubleshooting Android and/or IOS native application issues
• Experienced implementing client-server RESTful communications
• Knowledgeable on server-authoritative real-time client-server communications
• Experienced developing in-editor tools and pipelines for Unity 3D
• Experienced with Git or other revision control system
• Knowledgeable on data oriented programming and design
• Knowledgeable on multithreaded programming and design in .NET
• Excellent technical problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong cross-discipline communication and collaboration skills
• A proactive and forward thinking lifelong learner able to quickly familiarize oneself with complex legacy systems and code
• A detail-oriented mindset with a strong ability to multitask

• Experienced with Agile software development practices (Scrum / Kanban)
• Experienced shipping mobile games/applications (Android, IOS)
• Experienced with Unity 3D?s JSON, UI, rendering, lighting, and animation systems
• Experienced with enterprise server development