Senior Technical Designer

Sumo India; India; Hybrid; INR 2,000,000 - 3,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Annual bonus

Health insurance

Paternity leave

Job summary

Sumo India is seeking a Senior Technical Designer to join our growing team of designers focused on building robust levels and gameplay experiences for a variety of multi-platform titles, in collaboration with our UK based teams.

As a Senior Technical Designer, you will bridge the gap between Level Design and Engineering, applying knowledge of design theory and technical know-how to empower other designers to prototype, iterate and implement content efficiently, ensuring that systems, content,

Qualifications

• Understanding of technical design theory and best practices for robust systems and gameplay objects.
• Experience with scripting (visual/text) or programming languages.
• Experience with industry-standard game engines and design tools.

Responsibilities

• Implement gameplay content, level systems and LD tools, using visual or text-based scripting.
• Support Level Designers with technical problem-solving and workflow optimisation.
• Translate high-level design intent into technically feasible solutions.
• Build prototypes to help validate ideas quickly.
• Develop and maintain technical design documentation for level features and content.
• Communicate constraints, risks, and trade-offs early and clearly.
• Regularly review the work of non-technical designers to ensure workflows are optimal, content is developed systemically, and technical constraints are understood / upheld.
• Owns technically complex gameplay systems and level setups.
• Anticipates technical risks and mitigates them early.
• Mentors more junior Technical Designers, and/or less technical designers.

Skills

Technical design theory

Scripting experience

Programming languages

Game engines

Design tools

English communication

Tools

C++

Job description

Job Description

Sumo India are looking for Senior Technical Designers to join our growing team of designers focused on building robust and cohesive levels and gameplay experiences for a variety of multi-platform titles, in collaboration with our UK based teams.

Sumo India are looking for Senior Technical Designers to join our growing team of designers focused on building robust and cohesive levels and gameplay experiences for a variety of multi-platform titles, in collaboration with our UK based teams.
As a Senior Technical Designer in the World discipline, you will bridge the gap between Level Design and Engineering. Through application of a strong knowledge of both design theory and technical know-how, you’ll empower other designers to prototype, iterate and implement world and gameplay content efficiently, ensuring that gameplay systems, content, tools and workflows are efficient, scalable, and technically sound.

Job Requirements

Relevant Skills and Experience
Essential

• Understanding of Technical Design theory,standardsand best practices in the creation of robust systems and gameplay objects, levelstreamingand scripting,appropriate toseniority.
• Demonstrable experience insome form of scripting (visual/text based), or programming languages.
• Experience working with industry‑standard game engines and design tools.
• Fluency in English with excellent communication and feedback skills, both written and verbal.

Desirable

• Professional experience in Game Development, in the field of Technical Design.
• Experience collaborating with outsourced or external development teamsin multiple time-zones.
• A background spanningvaryinggenres such as open world, action-adventure, platforming and/or racing titles
• Familiarity with performance, memory, and technical constraints in world building.
• Knowledge or experience of working with object-oriented programming / languages such as C++

Job Responsibilities

• Implement gameplay content, level systems and LD tools, using visual or text-based scripting.
• Support Level Designers with technical problem-solving and workflow optimisation.
• Translate high-level design intent into technically feasible solutions.
• Build prototypes to help validate ideas quickly.
• Develop and maintain technical design documentation for level features and content.
• Communicate constraints, risks, and trade-offs early and clearly.
• Regularly review the work of non-technical designers to ensure workflows are optimal, content is developed systemically, and technical constraints are understood / upheld.
• Owns technically complex gameplay systems and level setups.
• Anticipates technical risks and mitigates them early.
• Mentors more junior Technical Designers, and/or less technical designers.

What’s in it for you?

Sumo India also offers a highly personable benefits package that has something for everyone, no matter where you are in your career.

• Sumo India also offers a highly personable benefits package that has something for everyone, no matter where you are in your career.
• Financial: Annual bonus, an employee referral scheme, 1st time home buyer bonus, Wedding bonus.
• Work-life balance:Hybrid work model, Flexible working, 22 contractual days holiday, 8 festive holidays, 4 statutory holidays, birthday day-off, 4 weeks of paternity leave, Maternity leave as per law, and options to buy or sell up to a week of annual leave*.
• Health and Wellbeing:Health insurance, life insurance, Mental health service, critical illness cover*, and funded flu vaccines/eye tests.
• Personal Development: Structured pathways, regular appraisals, annual salary reviews, 5 learning days per annum, access to on demand Sumo Developers Conference learning SDCXtra.
• Extra Perks: A variety of in-studio perks, regular care packages, studio days out (family welcome), sabbaticals (at 5 years of service), and an annual gaming subscription.