Howdy! The Nighttimes team is looking for an Unreal Engine Lead Dev to help build the demo for its flagship game, Rowdy Rascals.

The ideal candidate has shipped a UE game as a programmer and has worked on many different aspects from networking, character gameplay, physics, ai, etc etc

Responsibilities:

• Comfortable developing in both blueprints and C++
• Able to build features with multiplayer in mind (client/server replication)
• support the design team by building new game features
• Can operate in many areas of a game’s development
  • Building new gameplay abilities
  • Managing game state across network clients
  • Connecting art assets to game code through data classes
  • Working with the anim graph to enable rich animation features
• Able to quickly mock up gameplay concept ideas

Essential Skills & Experience:

• 4+ years of professional programming experience
• Familiar with unreal engine, level design, blueprints, scripting
• Shipped at least one commercial game
• Great communication and collaboration skills
• Can operate autonomously

Nice to have:

• Understanding of audio system in UE4
• Familiarity with UE GameplayAbilitySystem
• Experience developing for consoles
• Experience with UE5