- Start date: ASAP
- Duration: 18 months
- Location: Hybrid with 1-2 a month /3 days onsite for onboarding/ (Open to remote)
- Rate: £300 - €340 per day PAYE
Overview
Rare is a one-of-a-kind game studio where we create the kind of games the world doesn't have, games that are uniquely Rare! Working here offers opportunities unlike anywhere else. You'll be providing players with unforgettable shared experiences in games loved by millions worldwide. Our pirate adventure Sea of Thieves, launched in 2018, is still going strong.
We strive to make Rare an amazing place to work, embracing a culture of respect and building a supportive environment for our developers. Our custom-built Twycross studio is situated in the beautiful English countryside, surrounded by woodland and wildlife, with plenty of room for us to grow.
By joining Rare, you'll be joining one of the finest studios in the industry with support from the wider Xbox Game Studios network. We're always on the lookout for exceptional people who can bring their expertise and unique thinking to help make our team even stronger!
Role Purpose
As a Game UI Developer, you'll be part of a team of friendly, highly talented developers who like nothing better than sharing their own challenges and expertise with you. Sitting alongside fellow engineers, designers and artists, you will be responsible for helping to build the core features and components used to implement various UI designs, along with extending and developing our UI toolchain to support the current and future needs of our projects.
We're big believers in high-quality engineering, and since we're developing our products as services, we aim for fast iteration but with a focus on robust methods. This means that we embrace modern development practices such as continuous delivery, automated testing, code reviews, pair programming and agile methods.
Key Accountabilities
- Deliver high-fidelity web-based solutions to support Sea of Thieves and Rare's next games.
- Build creative solutions to technical problems encountered.
- Continuously work to minimise technical debt and maintenance hazards.
- Champion quality in our development process, demonstrating our values and taking an active role in improvement of engineering at Rare.
- Be part of Rare's culture; be inquisitive, try things out, break stuff, help people be even better, think like you own the place.
- Liaise with other teams, help identify technical challenges and identify core player value.
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience in modern JavaScript web development.
- Solid understanding of design patterns and object-oriented design.
- Knowledge of CSS and preprocessors such as PostCSS.
- Understanding of the complexities of working on multilingual products.
- A keen eye on rendering performance, and knowledge of how to profile.
- Experience in working with Typescript.
- Experience in writing unit tests in Jasmine or similar.
- Experience in MVC and/or MVVM design patterns.
- Experience and awareness of accessibility requirements.
- Experience in working with a JavaScript framework such as React, Angular, Vue, SolidJS.
