Lead Programming Team – Quests

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee the engineering team dedicated to narrative technologies for Cyberpunk 2

• Manage direct reports while fostering their professional growth and career aspirations

• Conduct individual meetings, performance evaluations, recruitment, and promotion strategies

• Provide guidance on code quality, collaborative workflow efficiency, and technical implementation

• Transform creative and narrative requirements into precise technical specifications in partnership with quest designers and directors

• Collaborate with lead architects and maintainers of the shared quest system

• Direct the development, integration, and enhancement of quest features

• Ensure optimal performance of quest tools to facilitate seamless iterative workflows

• Maintain and enhance narrative and quest functionalities

• Encourage collaborative workflows with shared technology teams

• Write high-quality, clean, optimized, and maintainable C++ code

• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve issues in quest features and authoring tools

• Work alongside the cinematics, narrative, and core gameplay teams to incorporate quest systems

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of professional programming experience in the AAA video game sector

• At least 1 year of experience in technical leadership, personnel management, or leading an engineering team

• Exceptional proficiency in C++ programming

• Proven experience in developing custom quest systems, narrative tools, or workflows for a node-based editor

• Demonstrated experience in a highly collaborative shared technology setting that spans multiple teams or projects

• Ability to recognize the needs of creatively inclined, less technical team members and translate their conceptual ideas into clear technical requirements

• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with effectiveness in multicultural, multi-time-zone environments

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine architecture (optional)

• Understanding of multiplayer network architecture and client-server synchronization for game and quest states (optional)

• Experience in the development and launch of at least one AAA game utilizing custom or bespoke narrative or quest tools (optional)

• Knowledge of Unreal Engine UI tools or experience in creating editor scripts for custom content tools (optional)

🏝️ Benefits

• Employer-funded health coverage, including dental, vision, and mental health benefits

• Complimentary mental health support, offering access to counseling services, psychiatric care, and a variety of wellness webinars

• 26 vacation days, 10 sick days, and 12 public holidays annually

• Group RRSP with employer matching contributions

• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA): CAD 100 monthly for fitness, wellness, internet expenses, remote-work equipment, training, streaming services, and more

• Menstrual leave: employees who menstruate may take an additional day off for menstrual pain

• RED Parents Network: support for working parents

• Flexible working hours

• Training, seminars, and courses, including internal workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning courses

• A welcome kit filled with gifts

• A genuinely international work environment

• No dress code

• Discretionary stock options