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Projects: Gadgeteer
Duration: Full-time opportunity (4 months + possibility of extension)
Location: Remote but must be living in the Greater Vancouver Area
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Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain C# code that will be deployed to thousands of people
- Work closely with designers to implement gameplay and interactive features / functionality using Unity
- Create and improve tools as necessary to support specific features
- Continuously test, debug, profile, analyze, and optimize on applicable hardware
- Review and test features / functionality developed by the team and provide constructive feedback
- Contribute innovative and original ideas on all aspects of virtual reality production and development
- Contribute to project wiki and other supplementary documentation
- Participate in daily scrum meetings (online) and weekly check-in meetings (in-person)
- Track tasks using a time-tracker application i.e. Toggl
- Respond promptly to Slack messages
Requirements:
- Demonstrated proficiency in C#
- Strong desire to write clean and optimal code
- Min. 8 months of experience using Unity 5 or above (game jam & hobby projects are counted)
- Min. 1 VR or AR project where you were the lead developer
- Min. 1 3D project where you were the lead developer
- Strong 3D math and geometry knowledge (eg. vectors, vector operations, matrices, matrix transformations, Euler angles, and quaternions)
- Willingness to tackle new challenges outside of your comfort zone
- Self-driven and self-motivated in a home environment
- Disciplined without needing constant supervision
- Strong communicator (in-person, email, instant messaging, webcam meetings)
- Punctual with deadlines
Nice to haves:
- Past experience working remotely
- Owns a VR headset (i.e. HTC Vive / Oculus Rift)
- Experience using Trello, JIRA, Plastic SCM, Perforce, and related technologies
- Experience with Agile / Scrum workflow
- Participation in game jams and hackathons
About Metanaut:
Metanaut is a small award-winning team of virtual reality enthusiasts who are passionate about building a better future. Our focus is to develop fun and valuable VR apps that are exceptional in design.
We are one of the first VR studios in Vancouver, and have won some of the world’s largest VR competitions. We were also in the first batch of VR studios in the world’s largest VR accelerator program. Our game Gadgeteer was listed as one of the most anticipated games of 2019 by PCGamer and we were chosen to receive the world’s largest AR grant program in the world from Magic Leap.
Team members have backgrounds in industrial design and engineering which helps us to apply proven real-world design principles to unfamiliar virtual worlds.
We split our time between the metaverse and Vancouver, and we want you to join us in the journey!
To Apply:
1. Read the following articles about remote working to see if you would be a good fit:
- Is Your ‘Personality Type’ Right for Working Remotely? – https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/is-your-personality-type-right-for-working-remotely.html
- 21 Tried-and-True Tips For Remote Working – https://auth0.com/blog/21-tips-for-remote-working/
- Effective Tips for Working Remotely – https://medium.com/swlh/effective-tips-for-working-remotely-23cc290a8c08
2. Email careers@metanautvr.com with the following:
- Cover Letter
- Resume
- A link to your portfolio and/or other pieces of work i.e. code samples
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