Versatile Game Programmer - Cross-Platform Systems

Blind Squirrel Entertainment, Inc.; Perímetro Urbano Manizales; Hybrid; COP 60,000,000 - 120,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Blind Squirrel Games seeks a Generalist Programmer for potential opportunities in Manizales, Colombia. You will join a multidisciplinary team to build, maintain, and optimize systems that support project goals and player experiences.

You will contribute across gameplay, engine integration, physics, rendering, AI, and tools, with ownership of complex systems and opportunities to mentor others as you grow with the studio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a related field.
• Minimum of three years in professional game programming; five+ for senior level.
• Experience shipping games or credits on AAA titles for senior roles.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and high-performance code.
• Solid understanding of data structures, memory management, and multithreading.
• Experience with game engines and cross-platform development.
• Ability to work independently and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Create high-performance, cross-platform code within a cross-functional team.
• Design, implement, and extend game systems, tools, and engine integrations.
• Evaluate and improve existing technology architectures for ongoing development.
• Lead or extend systems to meet long-term project needs.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, art, and QA to translate requirements.
• Support porting efforts and adapt systems to platforms and hardware.
• Develop data structures and algorithms for game objects and scenes.
• Apply math and physics concepts to gameplay and rendering features.
• Contribute to AI, animation, rendering, and multiplayer systems as needed.
• Implement animation blending, state machines, IK, and procedural techniques.
• Support client-server communication and network synchronization.
• Develop rendering pipelines, shaders, and post-processing.
• Use debugging tools and crash reports to diagnose issues.
• Profile and optimize CPU, GPU, memory, and frame times.
• Improve asset pipelines, tools, and automation.
• Collaborate with external partners to integrate contributions.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain coding standards.
• Document systems and decisions to support collaboration.
• Communicate progress, estimates, risks to management.

Skills

C/C++

Multithreaded programming

Debugging & profiling

Cross-platform

Game systems

Code optimization

Education

BSc in CS or related field

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

DirectX/OpenGL

Job description

Blind Squirrel Games seeks a Generalist Programmer for potential opportunities in Manizales, Colombia. You will join a multidisciplinary team to build, maintain, and optimize systems that support project goals and player experiences.

You will contribute across gameplay, engine integration, physics, rendering, AI, and tools, with ownership of complex systems and opportunities to mentor others as you grow with the studio.