Lead Programmer New

As a Lead Programmer, you will be pivotal to the successful realisation and delivery of our next project. In addition to hands-on programming and writing high-quality source code, you'll mentor and develop more junior members of the team, identify and share best practices, drive quality, and champion innovation, simplicity and efficiency. You'll enable the code team to achieve the highest possible quality product by encouraging best code design practices within the team. You'll be working closely with the game design team to create compelling gameplay experiences and be able to feel intuitively when the game is fun and entertaining. You'll report to the technical director and assist in drawing up policy and best practices for the team to follow., As a people business, the success of our people is the success of our company. We prioritise taking care of them with a focus on supporting them, nurturing their talent and providing a healthy, friendly, enriching, creative and safe environment in which to work.

Sumo's employee diversity group, PRISM, exists to promote diversity, inclusion, equity, equality & wellbeing across the company and plays a key role in Sumo's ongoing goal of fostering environments where all employees feel safe, welcome & represented.

Our charitable and community initiatives provide support for meaningful causes that matter to our employees, clients and partners.

We continue to work to improve diversity in our recruitment and promotion processes, and to actively encourage people from marginalised groups to consider a career in the games industry.

• Excellent C++ skills



• Experience working with Unreal Engine



• You understand the creative processes involved in designing and maintaining good code.



• You're a problem solver, and can offer advice to others and help them solve theirs.



• You enjoy experimenting with the problem space of game design and are able to work with designers to quickly iterate in the exploration of novel ideas.



• You're a great communicator and love working as part of a team where you play an active role in helping shape the game and its development
  
  The Chinese Room is an award-winning game development studio based in Brighton, UK. Since 2012, the studio has built a reputation for innovative first-person gaming. Its titles include the ground-breaking Dear Esther (2012); the cult horror Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (2013); the internationally acclaimed Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (2015), the highly-anticipated Still Wakes the Deep (2024) and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (TBA).


Since joining the Sumo Digital family in 2018, The Chinese Room has been hard at work building on its reputation for creative excellence in game development. From humble roots in modding and academia to a team of over one hundred game developers and numerous influential titles, the studio is busy with projects that merge TCR storytelling with new directions, new genres and new ambitions.

The Chinese Room also offers a highly personable benefits package which has something for everyone, no matter where you are in your career.

Financial: Annual bonus, flexible benefits allowance, salary sacrifice pension, benefits hub, payroll giving, an employee referral scheme (up to £3,000), financial/home buying consultations, workplace ISA and other schemes for tech loans, car loan and bicycles.

Work-life balance: Flexible working, 21 free choice days holiday (increasing to 22 with service), bank holidays, birthday day off, a duvet day (increasing to 4 with service), Christmas shutdown (Christmas Eve to New Year) and options to buy or sell up to a week of annual leave
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Health and Wellbeing: Dental insurance, income protection, life assurance, BUPA private healthcare
• , leading EAP programs (remote GP, mental health, physio, nutrition, lifestyle coaching and second opinions (medical)), critical illness cover, health cash plan, flexible gym (in-studio or discounts) and funded flu vaccines/eye tests.


Personal Development: Structured My Development tool, regular appraisals, annual salary reviews, access to Udemy learning platform, 5+ learning days per annum (1 can be used as a volunteer day), award-winning L&D team and yearly attendance to the Sumo Developers Conference ( link to video ).

Extra Perks: A variety of in-studio perks, regular care packages, studio days out (family welcome), studio-led social activities (game jams, yoga, quizzes, life drawing and more), sabbaticals (at 10 years' service) and an annual gaming subscription.


• These benefits are part of our flexible benefits options and are opt in selections.


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