Job Description

Role: Remote Sr. Gameplay Developer

Type: Contract to Hire

Location: 100% Remote (Based in Indianapolis, IN)

Please reach out to Trevor Hix at thix@apexsystems.com if interested!

We are a small section of ~20 people carving a niche focused on virtual training systems. We are building our competency with virtual reality and UE gameplay development. We enjoy the R&D benefits of a large company and the agility / comradery typically found in smaller startups. We believe in agile principles and strive to continuously improve our practices. We are looking to bring on a Senior Gameplay Developer who can help establish best practices and mentor other team members while we are growing our technical bench strength.

Our tool suite includes: Unreal Engine, Unreal Game Sync, Visual Studio, Perforce, Jenkins, Coverity, Visual Assist, Cucumber, Gherkin, and Azure DevOps.

About You

• You are an advocate for clean code / software craftsmanship
• You love learning & seeking new challenges
• You are known for improving the teams that you work with
• You listen with empathy and seek to understand the perspective of others
• Strong Unreal 4 development experience
• VR/AR development experience
• Familiarity with common game industry tools & middleware
• Strong experience with Blueprint scripting, plugin development, and UMG technology
• You have experienced many UE challenges and have learned design patterns / best practices
• Experience creating core gameplay systems
• Ability to research, analyze and optimize code to meet performance requirements
• Experience with networking including server/client systems and UE replication best practices
• Strong 3D math skills (linear algebra, calculus, trigonometry)
• C and C++ programming languages

What you’ll be doing

• Establishing best practices and architectural design patterns
• Mentoring team members – raising the bar and helping to mature our technical disciplines
• Help us to see uncover any gaps / blind spots in our gameplay development process
• Developing simulations of vehicles, devices, weapons, radars, cameras, etc. for training
• Integrating 3D / VR / AR environments with physical hardware
• Creating natural, intuitive interactions in virtual environments
• Writing clear, maintainable, portable code
• Continually iterate, balance and tune features and gameplay (Training) based on stakeholder feedback
• Build, expand, and maintain our automated build and testing processes
• Identify technical and developmental risks and generate solutions to overcome identified risks