We’re hiring Technical Artist (Unity)

Technical Artist

We are looking for a Technical Artist to work with game development and art teams, focused primarily on the character art, clothing and accessories production pipeline.

The role is full time permanent based in the magical city of Galway (working from home currently and negotiable) and salary will be negotiated on second interview.

 

What you will be doing:

Using modelling and texturing software to optimise existing models for character clothing and accessories.
Contribute extensively to the 3D art workflow
Attend daily stand-ups – make sure your tasks are delivered on time
Work closely with feature owners to provide feedback on features and progress
Work closely with QA team to resolve bugs and deliver high quality and efficient models and textures for testing

 

You will need:

1 – 3 years experience in Unity Game Engine
Skilled in using Blender and/or Maya
Substance Painter experience a bonus
Ability to work as part of a technical and artistic team
To apply for this position please email thefinniest@9thimpact.com with:
1. A CV detailing your degree results and work experience
2. A link to your portfolio or attach examples of work completed
3. Any other cool stuff you want to share

We’re hiring Senior Unity Developer (Mobile First)

9th Impact are an award winning game development studio based in Galway Technology Centre. 9th Impact design, build and publish mobile games some based on their own creations and some are in partnership with TV studios. Our games are loved by players and fans all over the world.

Senior Unity Developer (Mobile First) Job Description

This role is for a highly motivated and highly experienced Senior Developer (Unity). Your passion will be in creating and maintaining awesome games as well as have the best and most efficient development experience possible.

What you will be doing:

Enhance the game’s architecture
Contribute extensively to the core code base (hands on Unity C# and shader development)
Attend daily stand-ups – make sure your stories are delivered on time
Work closely with feature owners to provide feedback on features. Identify/mitigate any technical issues. Work with stakeholders to figure out and implement the best alternative technical solutions
Keep yourself and the team writing clean, efficient and optimised code
Work closely with QA team to resolve bugs and deliver high quality code for testing
Work closely with multiple stakeholder teams throughout delivery e.g games server leads

You will need:

5+ years of game-dev industry experience (AA or F2P MMO game-dev experience)
Experienced in developing 3D games using Unity
Excellent understanding of programming principles, how components work together and various common architectural approaches
Ability to solve complex technical problems, in large scale systems
An excellent communicator – proven ability to engage and motivate
Excellent experience working with multiple stakeholders in the dev process – be able to understand their goals, and deliver/ evaluate various tech solutions to meet these
Excellent C# skills
Very good understanding of real-time rendering and rendering bottlenecks in Mobile

While not mandatory, below are some nice to haves:

Competence with realtime shader development (HLSL/CGFX, Unity’s ShaderLab)

Salary:

Negotiable

 

Get in contact with us at thefinniest@9thimpact.com

We’re hiring Node.js Developers

9th Impact are an award winning game development studio based in Galway Technology Centre. 9th Impact design, build and publish mobile games some based on their own creations and some are in partnership with TV studios. Our games are loved by players and fans all over the world.

Node.js Developer Job Description

We’re looking for a Node.js Developer to join the 9th Impact team. 1 to 3 years experience is expected.

The role is full time permanent based in the magical city of Galway (working from home currently and negotiable) and salary will be negotiated on second interview.

The candidate will have a passion developing complex asyncronous Node.js applications which persist data efficiently and run in scalable cloud services. You will have strong maths background, an eye for detail, code in JavaScript, CoffeeScript and have experience in writing unit tests as you develop functions.

Day to day tasks will include:
Designing & developing efficient backend functionality in stateless REST and  statefull persistent game servers.
Deploying functionality to a staging environment and validating functions from client apps
Writing documentation for client app developers
Writing thin APIs to interact with your backend functionality

… and loads more, so the person needs to be used to high performing environments with lots of personal responsibility given and hard work and high output expected.

To apply for this position please email thefinniest@9thimpact.com with:
1. A list of any engineering/physics/maths/computer science/game dev qualifications you have and your final grades
2. A link to your portfolio or your GitHub or attach examples of work completed
3. Any other cool stuff you want to share

 

Other positions

Interested in working with us but don’t see your desired position advertised?

Get in contact with us at thefinniest@9thimpact.com