As a senior on the Real-Time VFX team, you'll lead a team that will help design and implement special effects that add atmosphere and depth to gameplay. With your experience, you'll create aesthetically astounding visual effects that elevate the look of the game. You'll use your artistic, technical, and leadership skills to breathe life into spells, channel powerful combat and define the style of dynamic effects in Avalon.

• Work with your lead architect to define the project's technical vision for the server infrastructure, collaborating within the project team and across multiple operations teams within Avalon to ensure service requirements for the project are clearly defined and met.
• Ensure the efficiency, maintainability, and scalability of the services and technology developed by the server team.
• Act as the primary point of contact for cross-team development on the creative mode, partnering with a central-service shared game engine team and platform team to define and execute on project requirements.
• Manage and mentor the engineering staff of the server team.
• Partner with the production staff and the rest of the leadership team for milestone planning and tracking development progress.
• Evaluate internal/external technologies and tools with the goal of sourcing and integrating technology that meets project requirements and goals.
• Author documentation and communicate best practices and technical constraints of the engine and gameplay stack to team members and external operations departments.
• Mentor intermediate and junior team members on best practices and the intricacies of MMO development.
• Excellent communication skills.

The Senior Gameplay Engineer is going to help us build the creative foundation for our game. They will collaborate with the other teams and specialize in the technical implementation of the gameplay's creative mode. They will oversee code reviews and will write code that will become the tools (literally) that fuse our game together.