Senior Lead Programmer

The 10 Chambers team consists of creative, ambitious and highly experienced developers with a lifelong love for games.

Our vision is to be the best co-op FPS game developer in the world. Would you like to take part in realizing that vision? We’re growing our team - and we're looking for people who want to help cooking up the next legendary co-op gaming experience!

As a team member, you will get to work with talented developers from a wide range of disciplines in an open, non-competitive, and highly collaborative environment, with endless opportunities to apply and refine your skills.

Our brand new office is located in the heart of the beautiful city of Stockholm, Sweden. Here we are leveraging the best of Scandinavian creative culture to create the next gamechanger - in a friendly environment where we aim for a good balance between work and leisure.

We want an open and inclusive work environment where everybody is valued, feels safe, is treated equally and with respect. At 10 Chambers we welcome everyone regardless of gender, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation, or age. Today our team consists of 15 different nationalities and the office language is English.

What are you working on?

• The name of the project(s): GTFO
• Genres: Shooter
• Platforms: PC

For which tasks (responsibilities)?

10 Chambers is looking for a Senior Lead Programmer for our growing programming team. As the senior lead programmer, you will hire, lead and support our programmers and make sure they have everything they need to function to their best potential. As your team will continue to grow, you will also hire, mentor and coach specialized programming team leads that will report to you.

We see that you are a very experienced game developer with strong programming skills. You will report to the technical director and be a major factor in realizing our technical vision. We can offer you to be a big part of an ambitious development team that gladly embraces the creative and technical challenges that come with game development.

We’re looking for a lead programmer with strong communication and collaboration skills. At 10 Chambers, you will get to work daily with talented developers from a wide range of disciplines in an open, non-competitive, and highly collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide best practices and guidelines for the programmers

• Recruitment of programmers and lead programmers

• Project planning and resource allocation in collaboration with the directors

• Day to day leadership of the programming teams

• Team management, including regular 1-on1s, development talks, promotional evaluation, also salary setting together with the technical director

• Ensure that all processes are in place for the programming team to thrive          

What kind of professional are we looking for?

• 3+ years of lead programmer experience  

• 5+ years of professional game programming experience

• Problem-solving and open-minded with a desire to build and grow a well-functioning team    

• A structured mindset for planning and following up team progress

• Very strong collaboration and communication skills    

• Fluent in English, written and spoken (Swedish is not a requirement)

Bonus Qualifications

• C# Experience

• Unity Experience

Why do we enjoy working here?

10 Chambers is a fully-funded scale-up game studio backed by Tencent and based in the beautiful city of Stockholm, Sweden. We are an ambitious, creative and collaborative team with a lifelong love for games. We have just recently released GTFO, a co-op FPS game and are about to start working on our next legendary AAA co-op gaming experience.

Why join 10 Chambers Creative team?                   

• Fully funded self-publishing studio in the dynamic games industry

• Opportunity to make a real difference to the success of 10 Chambers      

• Immerse in Stockholm creative culture and enjoy Swedish work/life balance

• Location: Stockholm. We are happy to assist with relocation from abroad/work permit

We want an open and inclusive work environment where everybody is valued, feels safe, is treated equally and with respect. At 10 Chambers we welcome everyone regardless of gender, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation, or age. Today our team consists of 15 different nationalities and the office language is English.

What are the conditions and bonuses?

• WORK & DEVELOPMENT
  An open, non competitive and highly collaborative environment Small and creative teams with high technical competence

• COMPENSATION
  We offer competitive salaries and yearly salary revisions We have a generous insurance and private pension package, including private health care Six (6) weeks paid vacation and work-free “bridging days” We offer each team member a wellness grant of 5,000 SEK per year If you move to Sweden from abroad, we will assist you in relocating

• SOCIAL
  Our large kitchen is there for Friday breakfasts, fruit, snacks, great coffee - and of course; the famous Swedish "fika" After-work activities, parties, lunch clubs …