Senior Graphics Programmer — Real-Time Rendering Lead

Cast Iron Games; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Professional development support

No crunch

Competitive salary

Job summary

Cast Iron Games in Tileyard North is seeking a Senior Graphics Programmer to lead rendering feature development and optimization across multiple platforms. You will own graphics systems from concept to delivery, collaborating with artists and engineers to achieve high visual fidelity and performance.

You will mentor junior engineers, help shape rendering architecture, and drive best practices while shipping cross-platform titles with a focus on quality and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience building or maintaining rendering systems in a commercial game environment.
• Strong understanding of real-time rendering techniques and modern graphics pipelines.
• Experience working with shaders and GPU optimisation.
• Familiarity with DirectX, and ideally console specific APIs.
• Comfortable profiling graphics performance and diagnosing bottlenecks.
• Experience working with console or PC platforms.
• Familiar with Perforce or similar source control systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain rendering and graphics systems
• Collaborate closely with art and technical art teams to support visual goals
• Optimise rendering performance across CPU and GPU workloads
• Investigate and resolve rendering bugs, visual issues, and platform-specific problems
• Contribute to graphics architecture and long-term technical planning
• Profile and improve memory usage, frame times, and rendering efficiency
• Support junior and mid-level engineers through mentorship and code reviews
• Help establish and maintain graphics programming best practices
• Contribute to tooling and workflows that improve visual iteration and development efficiency

Skills

Rendering systems

Real-time rendering

Shaders & optimization

DirectX & console APIs

Profiling graphics

Cross-platform development

Mentoring

Tools

Perforce

Job description

Cast Iron Games in Tileyard North is seeking a Senior Graphics Programmer to lead rendering feature development and optimization across multiple platforms. You will own graphics systems from concept to delivery, collaborating with artists and engineers to achieve high visual fidelity and performance.

You will mentor junior engineers, help shape rendering architecture, and drive best practices while shipping cross-platform titles with a focus on quality and efficiency.