Senior Game Programmer (C#)

SENIOR GAME PROGRAMMER (C#)

Auckland | Full Time - 40 hrs a week | Salary Range 100 - 140K Yearly | Game Development team

A bit about us…
RocketWerkz is an ambitious PC video games studio based on Auckland’s waterfront in New Zealand. Founded by Dean Hall, creator of hit survival games DayZ and Icarus, we are independently-run but have the backing of one of the world's largest games companies.

We always have multiple games in development at the same time and use a variety of game development, art, audio and production tools. While some projects have used Unity or Unreal Engine, our latest projects use our own custom game development framework called BRUTAL.

We need you!

We’re looking for Senior Game Programmers working in C# to develop new games using our BRUTAL game development framework. You’ll have both a strong understanding of the strengths of C# and a drive to ship updates that get games into players’ hands fast.

The BRUTAL framework allows programmers to focus on gameplay and game systems in C# while accessing a suite of custom libraries (eg, a Vulkan graphics pipeline, a low-level networking library) for scale, performance and control without the constraints of a game engine. Most of our games are open-world, simulation-based or systems-driven, which benefit from using more advanced C# language features. Kitten Space Agency is the first game we have built and published using BRUTAL.

It is likely you could move between various game projects over time, for instance, learning the ropes on our open-world base-building sim Stationeers before moving onto one of our new games.

A day in the life…

Every day at Rocketwerkz is different, but here are a few things you can expect to do in your role:

• Rapidly prototype game systems and gameplay in C#

• Continuously adapt code in response to gameplay and designer feedback

• Continuously test, debug and profile code to polish the game experience

• Talk with players in Discord or online forums

• Understand the desired game experience and champion the game as a whole

• Give feedback to the BRUTAL tools team to continually improve it

• Use JetBrains Rider, Github, Github Copilot