About the Studio – Squint/Opera:
Squint/Opera is a leading creative studio that bridges the worlds of architecture, design, media, and technology to create compelling, narrative-driven experiences. As experts in blending digital media with physical reality, we help our clients craft digital content to immerse their audiences and communicate big ideas.
Squint was founded in London in 2001 by four young friends who wanted to help visionary thinkers and institutions make the radical a reality. For more than 20 years, we have delivered projects in every corner of the globe and for a wide range of clients across architecture, government, real estate, museums, and attractions.
Squint/Opera is part of a larger team at Journey, which was formed to help companies envision the next chapter of their customer’s journey and craft a compelling experience across all touchpoints, both reimagined and newly created.
Squint/Opera is now part of Journey, a leading innovation and design agency that specializes in crafting compelling experiences across the physical and digital realms. Together, Squint/Opera and Journey create the first agency with proven expertise in blending the physical and virtual worlds at a global scale.
About the Role:
We are seeking an Unreal Senior developer to join our digital team. The role is a unique opportunity to lead high profile projects across the globe. The ideal candidate will be focused on all technical aspects of production from creative support to delivery. A thorough understanding of real time development, asset optimisation is required together with problem solving approach and an eagerness to learn.
With a focus on real-time applications and/or game development, the candidate ideally will have architectural visualisation experience together with a strong background in 3D. Embedded within the digital team, the role will require ownership of our flagship projects together with coordination between creative leads, 3D artists, and the wider dev team. The technical tasks will require rigorous planning, coordination, and excellence in technical execution.
Main Responsibilities
- Working on project tasks and taking the lead on real-time projects where necessary
- Technical implementation of bespoke interactive applications.
- Maintenance of our existing systems
- Technical implementation and solutions of bespoke Applications for interactive, experiential projects with ongoing maintenance where necessary.
- Coordination with external teams and freelancers
- Keeping up with the latest digital and real-time standards to support our digital offering and end-user experience.
- Development of interactive software for a range of new interactive exhibits, ranging from digital twins, VR, AR, touchscreens interactives.
- Maintaining and improving our current workflow to support current and future media creation.
- Knowledge sharing and applying that knowledge to projects. Collaborating with designers, producers, content developers, and other developers to deliver a successful project.
- Support maintenance of our production tools (perforce, GitLab, AWS, etc )
About You:
Qualification/ Experience
Required
- Demonstrable senior experience (10+ Years) with unreal
- Previous experience of leading complex projects and coordinating between teams.
- Expert knowledge of Unreal
- Blueprint
- C++ (entry level ok)
- Thorough understanding of 3D optimisation process
- Able to adapt and master new technical environments
- Analytic approach to problem solving
- Able to manage their own time
- One or more DCC : 3ds max || Maya || Blender || Rhino || etc…
- Experience with integrating APIs
- Knowledge of Code versioning (perforce / Plastic / git etc.. )
- Eye for detail
Desirable
- Gaming UX principles
- Houdini
- Python
- Experience in working with USD
- Omniverse
- Jenkins
- C++
Our Mission:
Our focus is on a creating a culture of support that is transparent, open, and flexible; an employee experience that attracts and grows the best and brightest talent. We are passionate about helping Journey’s success through growth, empowerment, and retention of our best asset – YOU.
Our Values:
The six core Journey values embody our spirit and mindset. These values are embedded in our DNA and we always strive to demonstrate these values in the way we show up to work.
We are explorers
We value curiosity, bravery, seeking knowledge, trying something new, failing, and trying again. We remain on an endless journey of discovery with always more to explore.
We show up
We don’t wait for answers. We seek out solutions, we figure it out, we engage, we continue to learn, we ask questions, we are self-starters.
We are authentic
We don’t use jargon, we speak simply, we are reliable, we are honest, we are ego-less, we assume good, we respect others and their voice.
We are fearless
We solve tough challenges, we move the needle, we have fun, we speak up, we draw strength from our team members. We embrace the change that is constant in our world.
We are experts
We strive to deliver the highest quality of work to ourselves and our clients. We value our thinking and want to partner with clients in opportunities to move the needle.
We are collaborators
We strive to improve our collective by sharing new ideas, skills, and perspectives. We work to partner across boundaries and keep minds and opens and we co-create our future.
Journey is an Equal Opportunity Employer and recognizes that a diverse workforce is crucial to our success as a business. Our practices are rooted in the idea that everyone should be treated with dignity, decency and fairness. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We would love you to apply for one of our open roles – irrespective of socio-economic status or background, age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, color, pregnancy, care/family responsibilities, national and social origin, political opinion, marital, veteran, or disability status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know at talent@journey.world
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