Senior Game Developer
PEAK6 was brought to life by the idea that the development of integrative technology can improve how business is done. The passion for that idea powers our firm still. As a Senior Game Developer at PEAK6, you will work on a unique and novel idea that will leverage gaming techniques to help innovate on our proprietary systems. You’ll collaborate with back-end/front-end developers as well as our trading teams to solve for the firm’s ever-changing but exciting challenges.
You’ll be responsible for:
- End to end game development, focused on API/Library integrations and front-end development
- Implementing game features such as basic movement, character AI, scripting, graphics, according to design
- Developing and implementing gameplay requirements for a proprietary system
- Actively participating in the game development process, engaging the team and resolving issues
- Releasing code weekly and get immediate feedback from players experiencing content as well as in depth metrics on how your feature is being used
You’ll gain loads of experience in this role but before you do, you should have:
- Effective interpersonal skills, able to effectively communicate across culture and to different game disciplines
- Self-motivated individual, comfortable working in a dynamic, ever-changing environment.
- Thorough understanding of client-server game architectures and gameplay/graphic engines.
- Need Experience with Unity based development with multi-player and 3D development.
- Develop and maintain gameplay systems in a client/server environment.
- Big picture thinking that can see past personal bias and envision outcomes outside of your creative comfort zone.
- Deep understanding of the mobile/social market.
- The ability to recognize when a design isn’t working and pivot smoothly to still hit the creative target.
- The ability to incorporate data and metrics into your designs while understanding the limits of data-driven design and not giving up your design instincts
All of our engineers have these traits. You should, too.
Motivation Collaboration Curiosity
Integrity Adaptability Ingenuity
Life at PEAK6
We want you to like coming to work so we work really hard to make your job fun and different from any other.
As a PEAK6 Senior Game Developer you can enjoy:
- Generous medical, vision and dental plans
- Matching 401(k) programs
- Adoption assistance & family leave
- Sabbatical program
- Speakers Series
- Massage days
- Poker tournament with a grand prize of a World Series of Poker buy in
- Sports leagues
- Cornhole tournaments
- Annual PEAK6 Party
- Yoga classes
- Tuition reimbursement
- Lasik eye discount
- Philanthropy events
- Annual wellness screens and flu shots
- Bagel Fridays/expiration lunches
- Birthday gifts
- Charitable matching gift program
Learn more about our culture on our website at peak6.com/why-peak6/