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An inside look at the people of Big Huge and our approach to game making. "You gotta have fun to make fun."
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Proudly Making Games in Baltimore
We love our quirky city. It's a great place to live and a great place to make games.
Why Baltimore?
We value team skills as much as technical skills, and we’re committed to hiring only the best.
At Big Huge Games we’re constantly building on our previous experiences to turn out better games for our players. We worked hard to build a successful studio where business goals are balanced with quality of life.
Our hiring mantra is “Value Team Skills As Much As Technical Skills,” which has helped create an inclusive and positive environment where we proactively work to move the industry’s culture forward. We’re excited about the future and look forward to continuing to grow a studio where amazing talent can find a long-term home!
Because we want you to be healthy, happy, and heartily enjoy working here.
Health/Vision/Dental Insurance
We’ve got you covered.
Unlimited Vacation
We trust you. Take what you need when you need it.
401K with Matching
So you can retire and play video games all day...oh wait.
Half off any Gym Membership
Rock climbing, barre, weightlifting.
Quarterly Company Events
Summer family picnic, holiday party, baseball game. We like hanging out together!
Free Snacks and 40+ varieties of Tea
No one likes the mid-afternoon hangries. Stop by our snack kitchen to take the edge off.
Chesapeake Food
Crabs, Pit Beef, and Black Eyed Susans
Easy Access
Every major East Coast city is less than 3 hours away by plane/train/automobile
Community Art
Artscape, Fluid Movement, The Baltimore Rock Opera Society
Let's Go O's
The Ravens and O's are our hometown teams.
Explore Maryland's Hiking Trails
Beautiful hiking within an hour of the office.
Open Positions at Big Huge Games
Game Designer II
Design
Big Huge Games is looking for an experienced Game Designer for our hit mobile free-to-play title DomiNations (and future BHG games)!
Responsibilities:
- Play the game so much you know it more than anyone
- Work with other Designers and Product Managers to maintain game balance and pacing as we add new features
- Create detailed design specs for new gameplay features
- Work independently and with other Designers to implement new game content
- Work with a cross functional team to implement new gameplay features
- Create, implement, and manage Events and Sales within the game
- Provide feedback on upcoming features and releases
- Contribute to the strategic vision for the game from a design perspective
- Be a sponge for ideas and feedback from players and the rest of the team
Requirements:
- 4+ years of game design experience, with experience in free-to-play games
- An understanding of systems design, particularly with the iterative game development process
- In-depth understanding of live game economy systems, with emphasis on “combat city builders” like Clash of Clans / Boom Beach
- The ability to work in a game engine and script/code
- Track record of success working in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines
- Experience creating detailed feature specs, wireframes, user flows, and design documentation
- Ability to work in both individual and team settings
- Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Tools Engineer
Engineering
Tools Engineer
Big Huge Games is looking for a talented Tools Engineer to join our accomplished game development team. You will be part of a highly skilled and innovative group that is responsible for creating world-class games and related technologies, focusing on our internal tools. We are looking for candidates who combine strong programming skills with the ability to work well with others. Your input and technical abilities will help contribute to our long-term development and direction.
The Tools Engineer will work closely with our game development team to build tools and pipelines which empower our teams to deliver industry-leading games. You will be working across all disciplines to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and manual processes that can be automated, improved or streamlined. Once potential improvements have been identified, you will also be responsible for architecting and implementing tool-based solutions. Finally, after deploying and delivering tools, you will continue to iterate with users on our teams to maintain and improve those tools and workflows over time. This is an important and challenging role where you will have the opportunity to make a large impact across our studio and product portfolio!
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, deploy, and maintain tools that empower content, development, product, QA, and ops teams to work better, faster, and with less possibility of errors
- Capture and synthesize requirements from multiple teams across different disciplines (Design, Art, QA, Product, Engineering) on what tools are required
- Be a ‘customer’ focused champion for efficient tool-based content creation, live ops, and dev ops
- Hold regular stakeholder meetings to gather feedback on your tools and make changes as required
- A focus on test automation
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 3+ years experience in game development, software engineering or related industry
- Strong computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithms, and data structures
- Software engineering skills, including the ability to write maintainable and robust code
- Expertise in front-end web development as well as back-end web technologies and services (REST, React, TypeScript, Spring Servlets, SQL, ASP.NET Core)Experience with server side and game development languages and engines (Unity, C#, .NET Core, Java, Redis, Memcached)
- Experience developing in and supporting all stages of the development lifecycle
- Ability to architect systems from scratch
- Ability to understand, evaluate and utilize a wide variety of different technologies when architecting tools solutions
- Strong oral and written communications with excellent team and interpersonal skills
Beneficial Experience
- Basic understanding of performance implications of caching, networking, storage, and concurrency
- Experience building large-scale, high-performance, maintainable software
- Ability to work in a non-traditional web development role, focusing on strong and responsive UX
- Git, TeamCity, Vault
- Experience with Test Driven Development