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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and scale Sentry's billing infrastructure, ensuring accuracy and reliability while processing hundreds of billions of events daily.
Senior Tools Programmer
📅 Jul 3
C#.NETWPFXAML
📜 Description
- Creating and supporting the development tools that we use to build games.
- Working with the UX team to design effective workflows and development pipelines.
- Writing user and technical documentation to guide users and promote tools.
- Providing mentoring and guidance to more junior programmers.
- Contributing ideas to extend Cobra for better content creator workflows.
🛠️ Requirements
- Passion for working on tools that will be used by many different users across a wide range of disciplines.
- Exemplary analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.
- Strong understanding of how to write maintainable systems, including structure, documentation, and unit tests.
- Ability to effectively manage competing demands for your time.
- Advanced knowledge of C# / .NET programming.
- Solid WPF / XAML skills.
- Experience in the creation and support of complex software packages.
- Proven requirements capture and product support skills.
- Experience in the creation of detailed user and technical documentation.
✨ Benefits
- Success-based annual bonus
- Share option schemes
- Life assurance
- Private family healthcare
- Flexitime working hours
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- In-house subsidised catering
- Cycle to Work scheme
Full job description
Frontier is an independent video game developer and publisher, crafting immersive gaming experiences with fun gameplay and unparalleled artistic quality. Renowned for its iconic creative management simulation games, Frontier captivates players worldwide with immersive and authentic game worlds. The modern studio is located in the vibrant technology hub of Cambridge (UK). The talented team at Frontier are dedicated to nurturing our existing portfolio and delivering our exciting future roadmap.
This role is offered on a full in-studio basis or a hybrid basis (minimum 3 days per week in the studio). We can provide a comprehensive relocation support package as part of any offer, should you need to relocate.
WHAT’S THE ROLE?
Our Shared Technology Group (STG) is primarily responsible for developing and maintaining our in-house engine Cobra. They also serve as a group of domain experts to advise game teams on technical problems, best practice and use of Cobra for their games.STG Tools are responsible for the custom tools associated with the Cobra engine, working closely with programmers and content creators to understand and influence how assets are built, how the runtime game uses them, and what processes are used to create our games.
As part of STG Tools you will develop and support Cobra with cross-project and project-specific tools and processes. You will contribute ideas for how to extend Cobra to deliver great workflows for content creators working on game teams, and collaborate with other programmers within STG and within projects to determine how the tooling and runtime components fit together. As an experienced specialist STG Tools programmer you will focus your efforts on tools development and assist specialists in other areas to understand the code they develop to complement those tools.
You will work closely with the STG Tools User Experience (UX) team to design our tools and workflows and with a Technical QA team to maintain stability.
You will contribute directly to Cobra and its supporting pipelines, take ownership of proprietary tools used with Cobra-based games, and promote best-use of existing tools for game development.
Frontier is an independent video game developer and publisher, crafting immersive gaming experiences with fun gameplay and unparalleled artistic quality. Renowned for its iconic creative management simulation games, Frontier captivates players worldwide with immersive and authentic game worlds. The modern studio is located in the vibrant technology hub of Cambridge (UK). The talented team at Frontier are dedicated to nurturing our existing portfolio and delivering our exciting future roadmap.
This role is offered on a full in-studio basis or a hybrid basis (minimum 3 days per week in the studio). We can provide a comprehensive relocation support package as part of any offer, should you need to relocate.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
You will work with talented and passionate people to support, develop or publish our sophisticated and enduring games, in a creative, collaborative and inclusive environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our players.
Wellbeing is a big focus at Frontier, and we are continually evolving how we can support our people. We encourage a healthy work/life balance and provide a range of wellbeing activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes a success-based annual bonus, share option schemes, life assurance, private family healthcare, flexitime working hours, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, in-house subsidised catering, support with relocation, a Cycle to Work scheme, free bike servicing, and social activities and events.
We strive to create an environment where everyone can fully demonstrate their capability and potential. If you therefore need any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please speak to your Talent Acquisition representative.
For queries, please email: recruitment@frontier.co.uk
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