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The Role: The Software Engineer for Career Mode works on the most played offline mode. As part of this team, you will play a key role in helping develop the tech, tools, and frameworks that form the foundation of the Career and Tournament modes, along with working on new features every year. 

You will report to the Development Director and collaborate with your Technical Lead to estimate, build, and enhance projects. You'll be integral to the game creation process, working on architectural design, implementation, and debugging across multiple platforms. You'll tackle complex challenges alongside Designers, Artists, and other Engineers in other areas.

Together with a talented team of +20 engineers, you will work on the technology, tools, and pipelines that form the foundation of our game features, C++ based backend functionality, UI framework and components, content and localization pipelines, content creation tools, and more. You'll report to the team's manager and collaborate with peers to advance the game development process.

Responsibilities:

• You will own gathering requirements and writing technical functional design specifications of new features or new additions to existing features within Career Manager, Career Player, and all types of Tournament modes. Propose tech solutions for low to medium-complexity features 
• You will make use of dedicated technologies to work on solutions that cover main aspects of game development: game features, stability and performance optimizations (frame rate, load time, memory).

• You will monitor performance and Career Mode stability impact from your changes and address any issues that may arise. You will investigate complex and hard to debug issues and provide tech solutions for addressing them.
• You will report your progress to the Career Mode’s lead and team manager.
• You will be part of a dynamic team focused on bringing high-quality features, tools, and frameworks that form the foundation of the Career and Tournament modes, along with developing new features every year.

Qualifications:

• Object-oriented programming experience of OO design principles
• 6+ years’ experience in C++ software development
• Strong C++ proficiency
• Experience to quickly understand high-complexity existing and unfamiliar code and modify it.
• Experience to adapt to existing multiple coding styles
• Proficiency in integrating and maintaining large-scale systems covering multiple domains.
• Understanding of memory management, multiple processor use, and run-time optimization.
• Implementation experience with 3rd party APIs.
• Skills in debugging complex applications.
• Knowledge of job-based architectures might come in handy.
• Experience to embrace challenges and find creative ways to overcome them
• Strong experience with Visual Studio and deep knowledge of debugging tools.
• Experience in C# and open-minded to learning new tech.

Nice to have:

• Experience in UI technologies (Qt, Unity or Unreal UI frameworks).
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Lua), C# and SQL.
• Experience working within an agile team.
• Experience with large logs analysis.
• Experience working with Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo game consoles.
• Experience with Mobile, PC, or Cloud-based games; performance analysis.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience