We seek a capable programmer who can write code, handle design specifications, create architectures, optimize systems, solve bugs, and more. This person will understand how to write code as part of a larger creative and collaborative effort, with a strong focus on player desires.

Since our studio is small, you’ll be touching many systems. Depending on your interest and ability, you may or may not be involved in game design work as well. This can range from filling in details of a new system, to writing candidate designs for solving a design problem, to broader evaluations of design direction and comparisons with other games.

We are open to candidates of varying experience levels, from very senior to relatively junior (though juniors should still have substantial work to show, as noted below).

Key responsibilities:

• Implement written game design specifications, both for new content and changes to existing systems using C# and Unity.
• Do minor game design: Understand game designs and independently figure out how to handle ambiguities and unspecified details.
• Offer feedback on design specifications and work with designers to identify and solve problems.
• Write implementation plans and specifications for technical features and architectures.
• Review code from yourself and other programmers.

Requirements:

• Be able to do useful programming from day one. At minimum, you’ll need practical experience working on large codebases and complex problems in a C-like language. C# experience is ideal since that’s what we use for most of our code.
• Have programming projects of significant scope to show off. These could be mods, indie games, game engines, professional games you worked on, or something else. These can’t be typical school projects or something you threw together with pals in a couple weeks or months. As a general minimum, a “significant project” is one that you worked on most days for at least six months.
• Be productive. You should be able to get a lot of stuff done well in a given span of time. You must know how to allocate your effort effectively.
• Understand optimization. Have at least some basic knowledge about data structures, optimization techniques, memory management, algorithms, time/memory complexity, and the best techniques for writing clean and maintainable code (ideally you’ve written lots of code already and know all the common pitfalls).

How to apply:

To apply, just send us an email. In your message, please include:

• Say which role you’re interested in.
• Say where you’re located.
• Include a traditional resume.
• Be concise and focus on showing the things you’ve created. YouTube videos of your games, art, or projects are great starting points for this.
• Include links to code you’ve written. Bigger projects are best, especially if we can see whole projects and how they fit together. If the code was written by multiple people, state which part was written by you.

We can hire internationally. We generally start with a trial contract.

Ludeon’s mission is to make creatively-vivacious, original, provocative, and engaging games. Our team members come from diverse origins and hold many different beliefs. Please be ready to work on this mission with people who might think differently from you.