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Splash Damage
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London, Greater London
Lead Online Programmer
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Description About Splash Damage We founded Splash Damage with a mission to create lifelong friendships amongst our players and our staff by building the world's most engaging multiplayer experiences. We only team up with the world's leading partners and have worked with many of gaming's most beloved universes over the years. Our studio culture is built around autonomy, friendliness, and constant learning, and we look after our talent with a comprehensive benefits package. The Sunday Times named Splash Damage the UK's 47th Best Company to Work For in 2018, and we've been awarded their Best Companies accreditation four years running. We also believe our teams create better work when they have a range of perspectives and opinions to draw from, and we are committed to increasing diversity across our studio to consistently enable that. We are currently working on numerous exciting titles for PC and consoles, including Gears 5, Gears Tactics, Halo: The Master Chief Collection and a few that haven't been announced yet. Come join us! The Role Online Services Leads areresponsible for the output of an Online Services team who design, implement and support client side game features that interface with back end and platform level services. Our Online Services teams work closely with backend services engineers and frontend UI engineers, to help realise features such as Matchmaking, Telemetry, Player Statistics, VOIP solutions, Lobby flow and integrating with XboxLive / Steam / PSN features such as Auth, Rich Presence, Messaging and Party management. Leads plan sprints for their team, effectively prioritising work to make ideal use of each team member's skills. Drawing upon their experience they will share knowledge with their team to create robust, flexible interfaces that respect the core technical pillars of a project. They work closely with other disciplines to realise their ideas and are not afraid to dive into hands-on work when necessary. We trust our Lead OS Programmers with a large degree of autonomy throughout the development cycle, and they put the needs of their team over their own. They are capable leaders who empower their team of programmers, keeping them motivated, providing effective coaching, feedback, and opportunities for growth along the way. They regularly work with the title's leadership team to solve project-level issues and represent their discipline effectively both internally as well as to external partners. You Excel At: * Working effectively in open and collaborative environments. * Employing a can-do attitude to solve difficult problems as part of an agile, fast-moving and highly-focused team. * Ensuring that our games are robust and error-tolerant, aiming to provide the best possible player experience at all times. You have: * A strong background in programming for video games; you've worked on at least 1 commercial project. * Advanced knowledge of C++, with relevant professional experience and good practices. * Demonstrable experience interacting with external APIs and services within a large and robust system * Professional experience integrating external APIs with game clients: PSN / XBL / Steam. * Multi-platform console development experience. * A can-do attitude and strong interpersonal skills; you love collaborating with others to architect and implement systems. * Strong time management and organisational skills; you can assist others in getting the job done without supervision. * Good communication and presentation skills; you're able to present ideas clearly and confidently to audiences of all experience levels. Even better if you have : * Experience with Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) * A real passion for Online and clear enthusiasm for playing games. Studio Culture Splash Damage offers a fun, friendly and relaxed working environment. Everyone here shares a passion for video games and that shows in daily office life. We get together regularly for a wide range of social events, enjoying pub quizzes, cinema trips and gaming nights, competing in our plethora of sports and game groups, and letting our hair down at our legendary company parties, karaoke and our weekly Friday get together s for in-house drinks, games and more. Find out more on our Studio page .