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Senior Software Engineer, Gameplay - Hearthstone | Irvine, CA
Blizzard Entertainment - Irvine, CA
posted 3 days ago
About the position
Pull up a chair and join us by the hearth! Blizzard is looking for an experienced gameplay engineer to join the Hearthstone engineering team. Our team values creativity, collaboration, and a dedication to quality, and we are searching for contributors aligned to our core Blizzard values to add to our team of dedicated game makers. Together we will learn, grow, and ultimately enjoy success by developing epic experiences for our players that push the boundaries of what Hearthstone can be. As a senior gameplay engineer on Hearthstone, you will work with designers and other engineers to create the amazing content we deliver to our millions of players on a regular basis. You will engineer zany new cards and mechanics, engaging systems, and have a formative role in the exciting future we're planning for the most well-established digital CCG in the world. You will also mentor earlier-career engineers in solving complex challenges and building strong habits for supporting a long-running live game. We value diverse voices and varied backgrounds, and we're looking for individuals to help us build fun, compelling, and inclusive gameplay, and experiences for Hearthstone. This role is a hybrid work position, with some work required to be on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio is Irvine, CA.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with designers, artists, and other engineers to prototype and build gameplay systems for new cards and their associated mechanics, utilizing C# and C++ within the Unity environment.
- Manage the intricacies of maintaining and expanding a mature codebase, implementing optimizations, debugging live issues, and consistently delivering new content to players on a regular schedule.
- Review feature requests to assess their feasibility, comprehensiveness in design, and associated risks.
- Bolster the success of fellow team members by offering technical guidance, engaging in code reviews, and providing mentorship to junior team members.
Requirements
- Substantial expertise in the field of professional game development.
- Strong established skills with C++ or C# languages.
- Deep experience debugging complex logic.
- High comfort level extending and improving an established code base.
- Dedication to improving all facets of the game and unlocking potential within the team.
- Able to communicate & collaborate effectively with artists, designers, and other engineers.
Nice-to-haves
- Avid Hearthstone player.
- Experience with implementing game logic in a large-scale client/server environment.
- Previous professional experience shipping game titles or other software.
- Database development experience.
- Experience with the Unity platform.
- Experience supporting a live service.
- Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related degree.
- Familiarity with the Warcraft universe.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
- Relocation assistance if the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job.
