Gameplay Programmer

**Why PlayStation?**

PlayStation isn't just the Best Place to Play — it's also the Best Place to Work. Today, we're recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

**Gameplay Programmer - **Berlin or Helsinki**

We are Neon Koi. We are a PlayStation Studio. Our mission is to make action games with epic stories that foster lasting connections with players around the world. Our aim is to amass a stellar portfolio over the next decade by focusing on building highly collaborative, experienced and empowered teams in Helsinki & Berlin.

We offer you the chance to join a rapidly growing international team of passionate and talented game makers, just like yourself. As an early employee of a young company, you will have a genuine opportunity to contribute significantly to our culture and operations.

Neon Koi is formerly known as Savage Game Studios.

**Why do our people love it here?**

Our team can be summed up as being hungry, humble, and people-smart. We genuinely love what we do and aim high. To succeed as a diverse international team spread across two locations (Helsinki & Berlin), effective collaboration and communication are key. While we are all talented individuals, the sweetest achievement is succeeding together as a team.

**Fair Play** - To us, fairness stands for treating people justly, and not letting your personal feelings bias your decisions about them. We strive to preserve a culture, which doesn't have glass ceilings or hidden decision-making processes. A transparent culture where teams can thrive and get rewarded for the work they put in and the results they achieve.

When people don't play by the rules, we act swiftly. At the same time, we reward individuals and teams who embrace our values.

**Powerful Together - **We believe that excellence is reached by effective team collaboration and ongoing, open feedback.

We are constantly curious to learn from each other. Understanding and hearing each others' perspectives enables us to make the best decisions. We get inspired by each other to strive for higher standards and ultimately become a better version of ourselves.

You can rely on each other when facing difficult challenges. We encourage everyone to speak up, ask for help and bring up hard conversations. Most importantly, we put a lot of effort into hiring the right people who enjoy spending time with each other.

**Players First** - We work for the players. Understanding them at deeper levels than just demographics is crucial for our success.

We're player informed. Ultimately we, and not our players, are responsible for making the right decisions for our games. We realize that what players want and what they need may often differ.

We're committed to creating a diverse team. If you feel that you might be interested in the role, even if you don't hit 100% of the criteria, please don't let that put you off. Get in touch with us. We believe in passion and potential.

**The Role**

We are on a hunt for a Gameplay Programmer to join an exciting mobile shooter project currently in development.

As a Gameplay Programmer, you will be delivering systems with a high level of code quality, polish, and performance. You will collaborate between departments on design features, tools and implementation details. Working across multiple teams on performance and debugging. Gameplay Programmers take full ownership of a problem/system and take it to completion. At Neon Koi, your work will make our games fun and our studio successful.

This role is based in either Berlin or Helsinki.

**Responsibilities**
- Collaborate on game design through rapid prototyping while ensuring that strong architectural and algorithmic decisions are made.
- Work closely with art and design to create and iterate on gameplay features.
- Prototype and iterate features based on constructive and collective team feedback.
- Optimize code and fix bugs in existing gameplay systems.
- Contribute ideas toward all aspects of the game's production and development.
- Write robust, maintainable code.

**Requirements**:

- 5+ years of experience as a programmer in a game development project
- A keen analytical mind, with strong problem-solving skills
- Strong C++ skills and the ability to code and architect gameplay mechanics and tools
- Well versed in games and the ability to articulate what is strong/weak about the design of existing games (an interest in