Senior Software Engineer / C++ Developer / C # Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (C++/C #)

Location: Manchester, Chadderton

Salary: Up to £45,000 plus bonus and benefits

Job Role:

The company has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Research and Development team in Manchester. Working in an experienced software team, the role is to develop video gaming platform software for the UK and International markets. The successful candidate will be working as part of a team responsible for developing all aspects of the company's video gaming platform software from initial design, through to final release.

This role would suit someone who enjoys being part of a busy and exciting development team, solving problems and has a flexible and results driven attitude towards their work. The successful candidate will be strong in either C++ or C # (or both). It would suit either an existing senior developer looking for a change or an individual looking to move into their first senior developer role.

Key Responsibilities:

• The candidate will be required to work with and develop the company's video gaming platform software running on embedded Windows XP / 7.
• Maintain existing software for UK and International markets.
• Follow departmental procedures throughout the development process.
• Where necessary perform customer site visits.

Required skills:

In addition to having a genuine passion for software development, an in depth knowledge of Windows multi-threading application development is also a major pre-requisite of this position. The candidate must demonstrate a high level of technical competence coupled with a good grounding in software development.

Essential:

• Strong C++ or C # in an object oriented environment.
• Knowledge of multi-threading in a Windows environment.
• Good level of education, equivalent to at least degree level in a relevant subject such as Computer Science.
• Reasonable professional experience in a Windows development environment using Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Experienced in using source code control, for example Subversion.

Desirable:

• Reasonable experience of C #
• Some experience of Prism, UNITY and WPF.
• Knowledge of interfacing to web services using SOAP, XML, WCF and JSON.

Ideally we would like you to have:

• Reasonable professional experience in the games/gaming industry.
• 3D/2D commercial game development experience.
• Embedded Windows development.

The company employs more than 550 people across three offices in the UK and is supported by its Nasdaq-listed global gaming parent company which employs 8,000 people in more than 50 countries on six continents. In return for their efforts, the R&D Software Engineer shall receive training on the company's products, along with a competitive salary and benefits and will be supported by their manager to grow their career within the company.

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