Lead Quest Programmer

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

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering team dedicated to story technologies for Cyberpunk 2.

• Manage direct reports while facilitating their professional development and career aspirations.

• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance evaluations, hiring processes, and promotion strategies.

• Guide and mentor engineers on code quality, collaborative workflow efficiency, and technical execution.

• Collaborate with quest designers and directors to translate creative and narrative requirements into technical specifications.

• Work alongside central architects and maintainers of the bespoke quest system for feature requests, integration, and ongoing enhancement.

• Drive the development, integration, and advancement of quest features.

• Ensure quest tools operate effectively while maintaining runtime performance and providing seamless creator workflows.

• Maintain and optimize story and quest features, integrating them with other game components.

• Promote collaborative workflows with shared technology teams across various projects.

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

• Track, diagnose, and resolve bugs in quest features and authoring toolsets.

• Collaborate with cinematic, narrative, and core gameplay teams to integrate quest systems throughout the game.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of professional programming experience in the AAA games industry.

• Over 1 year of experience in technical leadership, team management, or leading a group of engineers.

• Strong expertise in C++ programming.

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

• Demonstrated success in a highly collaborative shared technology environment involving multiple teams or projects.

• Ability to interpret creative and less technical team members' needs and translate design visions into clear technical requirements.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across different time zones and multicultural settings.

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine architecture is a plus.

• Understanding of multiplayer network architecture and client-server synchronization for game state/quests is advantageous.

• Experience shipping AAA games utilizing a bespoke or custom narrative/quest toolset is a plus.

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine UI tools or editor scripting for custom content tools is beneficial.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-paid medical healthcare (including dental, vision, and mental health services).

• Free mental health support, which includes counseling, psychiatric care, and well-being webinars.

• 26 days of vacation.

• 10 sick days.

• 12 calendar holidays each year.

• RRSP with employer matching.

• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) – $100 per month for fitness, wellness, internet, home office equipment, learning, streaming services, and more.

• Menstrual leave — an additional day off for experiencing period pain.

• RED Parents Network support for working parents.

• Flexible working hours.

• Access to training, lectures, and courses, including internal workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes.

• Welcome pack.

• A truly international working environment.

• No dress code.

• Discretionary stock options may be available.