Game Dev Engineer, Game-Based Learning
DESCRIPTION
AWS Game-Based Learning Products is looking for a Game Development Engineer to join a fast-paced, startup-minded innovation team where fun is an integral part of your job. Joining our team, you will collaborate with a team of architects, artists, designers, engineers, and testers responsible for the conception, development and operations of highly technical game-based learning solutions that rely on extensive use of hands-on labs, virtual environments, and interactive simulations to get customers to develop practical skills using AWS services.
As a Game Development Engineer, you will partner with fellow Unity3d engineers to evolve our game tech stack and actively work on level, character, sound, light, and gameplay design; you will collaborate with back-end engineers to build game cloud services platforms; you will cooperate with designers and artists to develop a compelling end-to-end visual gaming experience; and you will assist learning architects and instructional designers map learning objectives and game elements to deliver a unique cloud learning experience to our players.
For more information about our products:
- https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-simulearn/
- https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-card-clash/
- https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-cloud-quest/
- https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-industry-quest/
- https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-game-training-cloud-skills
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of architects, artists, designers, engineers, and testers to design, deliver, maintain, and operate multiple game-based learning products;
- Drive our game tech stack and promote best practices to produce high quality games, and coach less tenured engineers;
- Partner with technical and business stakeholders to influence our long-term strategy and establish the team's roadmap;
- Make data-driven decisions by leveraging industry landscape from engineering, gaming and training, as well as user feedback and telemetry data;
- Write high quality code.
A day in the life
You will work with engineering and product stakeholders closely on a day-to-day basis. You will contribute to the production of multiple games and features and collaborate with other learning products teams (e.g.: AWS SkillBuilder, AWS Labs, AWS Jam, Exam Prep). You will solve, learn, and mentor team members on web-scale challenges, distributed systems problems, and game development best practices. You will regularly review technical work with peers, stakeholders, and leadership.
About the team
AWS Game-Based Learning team members are spread across the US, Canada, and Brazil. Our mission is to build learning products that use game thinking principles. We combine learning strategies with game technologies and theories to develop appealing knowledge transfer experiences that target customer needs.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 2+ years of Unity, Unreal, CryEngine, Lumberyard or proprietary 3D game engine, or industry-equivalent technology (3D animation, simulation, etc.) experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Ability to communicate in English and Portuguese (verbal and written)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience in Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops)
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent