Senior Tools Programmer - Total War - CA Sofia

Creative Assembly is looking for an experienced Tools Programmer to join our team situated in Sofia, Bulgaria while working on a daily basis as part of our dedicated teams in the UK.

In this exciting role, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining one of our many in-house editors for the Total War franchise. They will work alongside other developers for knowledge sharing, development managers for all things agile and sprint-related, and end-users to ensure that their user experience is as good as it can be.

Your Impact:

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Have responsibility for development and maintenance of one of our in-house editors.
• Collaborate with others on the Editor team to further develop our editor technologies on a large scale.
• Work with artists, designers, and others to understand requirements and implement changes accordingly.
• Participate in regular sprint planning and retrospectives with development managers to facilitate efficient workflows.
• Offer guidance to junior and regular programmers within the team as a mentor.

How you can match:

• Strong C++ programming knowledge.
• Desire to learn and keep up with modern C++.
• Experience with developing tools and other GUI-based applications.
• Experience with designing and maintaining large systems.
• Experience with working in the games industry.
• Good knowledge of patterns such as MVC and MVVM.
• An unwavering mindset for good UX.
• Ability to write long-lasting code and have strong awareness of technical debt.
• Ability to clearly communicate and collaborate with end-users.

Nice to have:

• Experience with UI frameworks such as Qt and ImGui.
• Experience with Agile development practices.