Gaming Designer
- Recruiter
- Fintec Recruit Ltd
- Location
- Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
- Salary
- £26000 - £30000 per annum
- Posted
- 11 May 2017
- Closes
- 08 Jun 2017
- Ref
- FT3018
- Contact
- FINTEC Team
- Sectors
- IT, Programming
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
FINTEC recruit is seeking a Games Designer for our Gaming sector client . This is a permanent role based in Manchester. We are looking for a mathematician or probability expert, creating the maths models . This position is an opportunity to develop into a game designer or producer of games. You will have experience with Python, C/C++, JAVA or Visual Basic programming languages
Responsibility of the Games Designer Role:
- Create math models for the games targeted for gaming markets, delivering data to the game developers and support documentation to external test/approval laboratories.
- Models are created in a variety of methods, including Excel and various sophisticated proprietary tools.
- Work with the game producer and team to create the optimal game play profile to ensure player appeal.
- Review games as they are implemented to ensure that they reflect the correct math model.
- Critique games to select the most appropriate games for the gaming business markets
Qualification and Skill Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Mathematics or Statistics (or equivalent experience);
- A strong understanding and experience of probability theory.
- An advanced user of MS Excel, comfortable creating and adapting large and complex spreadsheets
- Typically has 2 - 5 years of commercial experience using maths and excel in a professional context.
- Programming skills to create or adapt simulation programs in a variety of languages - Pyton, C, C++ etc
- Knowledge of gaming products is not essential but clearly an advantage
- Strong analytical skills and problem solving abilities
- Must be able to travel as needed
Advantageous skills:
- Experience with Python, C/C++, JAVA or Visual Basic programming languages to help develop simulations or more complicated math models.
- Strong enthusiasm for games in general and gambling games in particular
Please click on apply or send your CV directly to our team and quote Ref: FT3018
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