Description
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contract type: On-Payroll, Full-time (40h/week), fixed-term contract (with a strong possibility of extension or conversion to permanent employment based on performance and project requirements)
Expected Start Date: 01.07.2026
Programmer is responsible for day-to-day technical operations across Vanguard and key Torpor Games pipelines. This role translates technical contributions into concrete implementation plans, participates in technical execution, and ensures that systems, tools, and workflows remain stable, scalable, and aligned with production needs. The Programmer works closely with the Lead Programmer, Technical Director, and with design, narrative, art, production, and QA leadership to support both in-development projects and live operations.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contract type: On-Payroll, Full-time (40h/week), fixed-term contract (with a strong possibility of extension or conversion to permanent employment based on performance and project requirements)
Expected Start Date: 01.07.2026
Programmer is responsible for day-to-day technical operations across Vanguard and key Torpor Games pipelines. This role translates technical contributions into concrete implementation plans, participates in technical execution, and ensures that systems, tools, and workflows remain stable, scalable, and aligned with production needs. The Programmer works closely with the Lead Programmer, Technical Director, and with design, narrative, art, production, and QA leadership to support both in-development projects and live operations.
Requirements
Essential
Preferred
Essential
- Extensive experience as a programmer on shipped game projects.
- Strong proficiency with Unity and C#, including system architecture, UI, and tooling integration.
- Proven experience working on narrative-heavy games, strategy games, or comparable projects with complex branching content, state management, and data-driven systems.
- Experience planning and delivering features within milestone-driven production environments.
- Strong collaboration skills across design, narrative, art, production, and QA.
- Experience in establishing coding standards, review processes, and maintainable technical practices.
- Ability to balance hands-on implementation with leadership and coordination responsibilities.
Preferred
- Experience supporting live operations, post-launch updates, or DLC pipelines.
- Familiarity with localization workflows or content-heavy tooling environments.
- Practical understanding of AI-assisted development workflows, including strengths, limitations, and appropriate use cases in production environments.
- Experience evaluating and integrating AI tools responsibly within engineering pipelines, with awareness of quality, security, and maintainability considerations.
- Experience building or maintaining internal tools and content pipelines.
- Experience working in mid-sized or growing studios with multiple concurrent projects.
- Familiarity with dialogue systems, branching narrative tooling, or political/economic simulation mechanics.
- Experience with performance profiling, optimization, and technical debt management.
- Familiarity with web technologies, backend development, Python, or cloud services such as Node.js or Firebase.
