Agile Developer - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - DiverseJobsMatter

Description

JOB OVERVIEW

You will be joining our Performance Tools team, who design and develop the tools that games developers and application developers use to profile and debug their work for optimum performance, enabling the next generation of mobile games and other innovative graphics applications.

Are you passionate about mobile gaming, interested in building tools that help developers improve the efficiency of their games, or do you have an interest in the processes used in the development of graphics for applications? Then this role is for you, allowing you an in-depth view of the processes used by developers to create to graphics in applications and a role in shaping the tools those developers are using.

We are looking for a graphics API expert to join our team working on our newest graphics tool.

Working collaboratively as part of the Performance Tools team to extend, develop and maintain our suite of tools or to contribute to the design and development of new profiling tools.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Understanding the processes used by the developers using our profiling tools
Contribution to the development of new features, including work planning, feature design, and consideration of User Experience / work flow
Design and development of new profiling tools and methodologies
The creation of automated tests, contributing to our DevOps pipeline to maintain the fast cadence and high quality of our releases
High quality engineering through approach reviews, code reviews and following modern agile software development process
Mentoring and coaching of junior team members
Documentation of designs / implementations


REQUIRED

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Strong expertise in Vulkan or other similar graphics APIs
A strong understanding and practical experience of modern C++ programming
Strong abstract reasoning skills with an ability to focus on key concepts at all levels of detail.
You should be motivated, an independent problem solver, technically versatile, willing to be flexible and accept new challenges.
The ability to identify risks and propose mitigation strategies
Effective verbal and written communication skills
The ability to work alone as well as in a team
The desire to take ownership and accountability at work
Experience with scripting, in a language such as Python, and using the Linux command line.

"NICE TO HAVE"


SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
You may have

Experience developing games using Unity, Unreal, Godot or similar engines
Understanding of different computer graphics techniques and understand the associated tradeoffs
Exposure to ML / AI
Experience with OpenCL / Cuda style compute solutions
Android development experience
Experience working cross site