Senior Tools Engineer

ArenaNet; United States; Remote; USD 128,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ArenaNet, a renowned game developer, seeks a Tools Engineer passionate about enhancing development tools for creative processes. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 5 years of programming experience, including proficiency in C#. Remote work is considered from multiple states, and the role offers a competitive salary plus benefits.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Flexible Spending Accounts

Parental Leave

Qualifications

• 5 years of programming experience.
• Experience with Windows applications and managed code.
• Comfortable in Visual Studio and navigating large codebases.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with game designers, artists, and engineers.
• Enhance development tools to support the creative process.
• Debug and provide user support for development tools.

Skills

C#

User Interface Development

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

We’re ArenaNet. We make the games we want to play and infuse them with innovation, hand-crafted detail, and creative passion. As developer and publisher of the award-winning Guild Wars game series, we’re proud to share our passion for the online worlds we’ve created with over 11 million players worldwide.

Our constantly evolving online worlds require a foundation of stable tools to streamline content creation. ArenaNet’s engineers take pride in writing quality, performant code that enables continuous releases within these massive worlds. We are looking for programmers who share our commitment to quality and are excited to engineer industry-leading technology.

About Our Team

The Engineering team at ArenaNet thrives on a wide array of perspectives, experiences, and interests. We know that the best creations come from healthy and friendly teams. Our work is woven together with the efforts of multiple disciplines and crafts within game development. We seek out voices and ideas that might be new to us and are always on the lookout for ways to help each other, both within the Engineering team, and throughout the studio.

Who You Are

You’re a strong tools engineer with a track record of excellent customer service. You enjoy collaborating with game designers, artists, and engineers to ensure that development tools enhance the creative process. You are responsive to user experiences and are not shy about digging into the reasons something is or is not working, whether those reasons lie deep in source code technicalities or in the everyday, human challenges of the user. You understand how to balance proving out new solutions against improving existing infrastructure. Your industry experience and communication skills allow you to both develop a fix and champion that fix through code review and user feedback iteration.

You are comfortable working with Windows applications and C# managed code, and you have professional level experience with user interface development technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). You are comfortable with the Visual Studio environment and navigating large code bases with complex dependencies.

We value your abilities whether from personal or professional projects. Please share with us any experiences that demonstrate your skills and your ability to learn new skills, especially how you approach reading, testing, and debugging a new code base.

What You'll Need To Be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 5 years of programming experience

Please note: If you feel you don’t meet all requirements but are equipped with most, we still encourage you to apply. We welcome the opportunity to open a dialog to be considered.

We are open to remote work from the following states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, MD, NC, NY, OR, TX, UT, WA and WI or onsite/hybrid/flex at our office in Bellevue, WA.

Total compensation is salary plus an annual bonus potential. Please note that the listed pay range is a general guideline only. We take into consideration the geography in which you live and your experience and qualifications when determining final salary. This role is also eligible for medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, 401(k), flexible and dependent care spending accounts, PTO, paid holidays and parental leave.

Remote pay range

$128,000 — $190,000 USD

About the company

ArenaNet, LLC is a video game developer and subsidiary of NCsoft, founded in 2000 by Mike O'Brien, Patrick Wyatt and Jeff Strain and located in Bellevue, Washington.

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