Senior Animation Programmer
Techland S.A.3 hours ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Research, develop, maintain, and improve gameplay and cinematic animation systems.
- Own gameplay and cinematic animation features from content creation tools through engine runtime.
- Collaborate with programmers, designers, artists, animation leads, and the animation director to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and improve animation workflows.
- Profile and eliminate performance, memory, network, and I/O bottlenecks in complex data-processing pipelines and tools.
- Create documentation for gameplay and cinematic teams and monitor developments in animation technology.
Requirements
- At least five years of professional programming experience.
- Expertise in C/C++ and strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Experience with multithreaded and allocator-aware programming, memory optimization, and performance optimization.
- Experience with animation graphs, blend trees, and state machines using Unreal, Havok Animation, Morpheme, or similar technologies.
- Solid understanding of 3D mathematics and linear algebra.
- Proficiency in algorithm design, complexity, software architecture, and software design.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, extensible, and reusable code.
- Strong communication skills, enthusiasm, initiative, and very good command of English.
- Preferred experience includes a shipped multiplayer title, animation technologies such as compression, motion synthesis, ragdoll physics, or inverse kinematics, UX and tool creation, console programming, Maya or Motion Builder, Python, and animation processing or deployment pipelines.
Benefits
- Dedicated buddy support and a dedicated HR Business Partner.
- Private medical care, life insurance, pro-health campaigns, and gifts for different occasions.
- Flexible working hours, no dress code, and a supportive team atmosphere.
- Dedicated development budget, two additional paid days for training and CSR, internal and external training, and funding for English and Polish language classes.
- State-of-the-art offices with chillout zones, a fully equipped kitchen, a gym at the Wrocław office, and limited free car parking in Warsaw.
About Techland S.A.
Techland S.A. is a Polish video game developer and publisher known for open-world action franchises such as Dying Light and Call of Juarez. It builds and ships multi-platform titles using its own technology and sells to global PC and console players through digital and retail channels. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Wroclaw, the company became part of Tencent in 2023 while continuing to operate independently.