Senior Animation Programmer
Techland S.A.3 hours ago
Wrocław, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Research, develop, maintain, and improve gameplay and cinematic animation systems.
- Own 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 workflows.
- Profile complex data processing pipelines and tools and eliminate performance, memory, network, and I/O bottlenecks.
- Create documentation for gameplay and cinematic teams and stay current with animation technology developments.
Requirements
- At least five years of professional programming experience.
- Expertise in C/C++.
- Experience with multithreaded and allocator-aware programming, memory optimization, and performance optimization.
- Experience with animation graphs, blend trees, and state machines, including 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 problem-solving, debugging, communication, initiative, and English-language skills.
- Preferred: experience with a shipped multiplayer title, animation compression, motion synthesis, ragdoll physics, IK, UX and tool creation, console programming, Maya, Motion Builder, Python, or animation processing and deployment pipelines.
Benefits
- Private medical care, life insurance, pro-health campaigns, and gifts for different occasions.
- Flexible working hours, no dress code, a dedicated Buddy, and HR Business Partner support.
- Dedicated development budget, two extra paid days for training and CSR, career paths, internal and external training, and financing for English and Polish language classes.
- State-of-the-art offices with chillout zones and a fully equipped kitchen; the Wrocław office includes a gym and the Warsaw office offers limited free parking.
- Work locations are in Wrocław and 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.