Senior Gameplay Programmer

Senior Gameplay Programmer

Sandbox VR is looking for a Senior Gameplay Programmer to help shape the future of immersive multiplayer VR experiences. In this role, you will bring gameplay to life by building player interactions, AI behaviors, and core systems in Unity, working closely with designers and artists to create engaging, high-quality experiences. You will play a key role in guiding technical direction, mentoring other developers, and delivering polished, performant gameplay that reaches players around the world.

• Work to implement game mechanics and AI behaviors for our compelling 6-person multiplayer experiences & provide mentorship to other programmers
• Consistently push the limits of the Unity game engine to maximize the quality of each VR experience.
• Keep up with the latest features and optimization techniques and decide if, when, and how to incorporate them.
• Find or develop tools and processes to make the development process more efficient.
• Actively contribute to creative maintainable code that can be reused across experiences.
• Own key areas of the experience from technical perspective
• Experiment with game design and use rapid prototyping to develop features, all while ensuring that strong architectural and algorithmic decisions are made.
• Work closely with art and design to create and iterate on gameplay features.
• Fix bugs in existing gameplay systems as required.
• Contribute ideas toward all aspects of the VR experience’s production and development processes. Write robust, maintainable code.

• You've been a software or feature group team lead and can share your philosophy of leadership as well as specific examples of where you've put that philosophy into action.
• Exceptional C# programming skills with at least 5 years of software programming experience.
• You must also have significant experience in programming with the Unity engine.
• You have a proven track record, have shipped at least 2 commercial games (PC or Console preferred) and have been involved in each step of the development process from concept stage all the way through to the final release.
• You can share awesome stories of your incredible successes or crushing failures and what you learned from each experience.
• You play video games very frequently and have a strong understanding of current gaming trends and popular games releases.
• It’s a big plus for us if you have your own VR headset and regularly play VR games.

• Significant equity grants in a rapidly growing organization
• Private medical benefits
• Hybrid work model (3 days a week onsite)
• Retirement plan

Ideally, we'd like to hire this role in Vancouver as a hybrid work model, but the team is open to highly qualified remote candidates in Canada as well.

Sandbox VR is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

103903 - 134463 CAD a year