Software Developer, Co - op role assisting Clio’s Engineering team with software development and deployment in a hybrid environment. Requires 3rd or 4th year Computer Science/Engineering student with strong fundamentals.
About the role
- Senior Software Engineer at Big Viking Games focusing on development and modernization of live-service games. Collaborating across teams to enhance player experiences and improve engineering pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and maintain clean, efficient, reusable code for gameplay features, tools, systems, and live-service functionality.
- Build and improve tools that help designers, artists, product managers, and live operations teams work more efficiently.
- Integrate tools and systems into existing content creation pipelines and production workflows.
- Work across gameplay systems, UI systems, live operations systems, backend integrations, and internal development tools.
- Debug and resolve complex issues in production and development environments.
- Analyze and optimize performance, runtime behavior, memory usage, network behavior, and system reliability.
- Work with networked and online systems, including APIs, real-time systems, client-server interactions, and multiplayer or social game features.
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, artists, QA, product managers, and live operations stakeholders to ship improvements quickly and responsibly.
- Participate in code reviews and help uphold engineering quality, consistency, and maintainability.
- Maintain clear and useful documentation for code, systems, tools, and project-related materials.
- Support modernization efforts across large, long-lived codebases while maintaining production stability.
- Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and technical recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Use AI coding assistants and automation tools where appropriate to improve productivity, accelerate debugging, and reduce repetitive work.
- Mentor and support other developers through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in game development, live-service products, or interactive digital experiences.
- Strong programming skills in C++, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, or similar languages.
- Experience building, maintaining, and shipping features in live production environments.
- Strong understanding of gameplay systems, tools development, client-server architecture, APIs, real-time systems, or online game features.
- Experience working in large, mature, or long-lived codebases.
- Ability to write clean, simple, well-documented code from technical and product requirements.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Understanding of performance optimization, system architecture, source control, and software development best practices.
- Comfort working with designers, artists, product managers, QA, and other non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to translate general product or design ideas into practical technical solutions.
- Experience working independently and collaboratively in a fast-moving team environment.
- Familiarity with Agile, Kanban, or similar development methodologies.
- A practical mindset, strong ownership, and a bias toward shipping high-quality work.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Nice to Have
- Experience with Unity, Unreal Engine, HTML5 game clients, or custom game engines.
- Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, C#, C++, or Node.js in production environments.
- Experience with mobile development for Android or iOS.
- Experience with free-to-play games, social games, casual games, virtual worlds, or live-service game operations.
- Experience with game economies, virtual goods, player-to-player systems, content pipelines, or live event systems.
- Experience with multiplayer, online, networking, sockets, REST APIs, client-side prediction, synchronization, or latency-sensitive systems.
- Experience with SQL, MariaDB, Redis, Memcached, caching strategies, or data-store tradeoffs.
- Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment workflows.
- Experience with performance profilers, memory analyzers, CPU profilers, or network debugging tools.
- Experience with ActionScript, Flash, HTMX, or legacy game technology.
- Experience shipping games on web, mobile, PC, console, or cross-platform environments.
- Comfort using AI coding assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar tools in a real development workflow.
Benefits
- Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation.
- Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Health and Wellness spending account.
- Generous time off policies.
- Opportunity to work on long-running live-service games with established player communities.
- Exposure to modernization, AI-enabled engineering workflows, and high-impact product initiatives.
Job title
Job type
Experience level
Salary
Degree requirement
Tech skills
Location requirements
Report this job
Found something wrong with the page? Please let us know by submitting a report below.
Principal Software Development Engineer on AI Model Serving team at Workday. Leading technical direction and design decisions for large - scale distributed systems and machine learning deployment.
Senior technical contributor at Autodesk focusing on cloud data infrastructure and managing structured storage. Leading high - impact initiatives and influencing architecture decisions in the SRS platform.
Senior Software Developer developing cloud and AI capabilities at Autodesk. Collaborating with cross - functional teams to enhance Autodesk's platform ecosystem.
Intermediate Software Engineer developing and maintaining live - service virtual worlds for Big Viking Games. Collaborating on TypeScript and PHP codebases and employing AI - forward workflows.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Big Viking Games building AI - enabled products and workflows. Responsible for end - to - end feature ownership and leveraging AI for game production.
Guidewire Software Architecture Advisor responsible for designing Guidewire solutions within complex insurance environments. Leveraging expertise to influence and collaborate with teams for effective implementation.
Tech Lead at Univeris driving software development and guiding teams in enterprise wealth management. Collaborating on R&D and Professional Services with a focus on high - quality delivery.
Senior Software Engineer developing identity & authorization platform services at ClickHouse. Designing and building authentication and authorization infrastructure for a cloud - based data analytics solution.
Technical Lead for Water Information Systems within Hamilton's Public Works, overseeing data management and GIS projects. Leading initiatives to enhance software applications for asset management.