Senior Rendering Engineer

In this role, you can expect to:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of high-quality rendering software, ensuring code quality and adherence to best practices. Develop rendering pipeline code and shaders, implementing advanced visual features including lighting, shadows, and post-processing effects.
• Architect robust and scalable solutions for complex rendering challenges, making informed technology decisions to ensure optimal system performance, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including art and other engineering disciplines, to understand requirements and facilitate seamless communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation within the rendering pipeline by optimizing algorithms and code for peak performance, staying current with industry trends and technologies, and proactively identifying and resolving critical software issues.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and constructive code reviews to team members, fostering knowledge sharing and contributing to overall team growth and expertise.
• Contribute to project planning and manage timelines effectively, while also maintaining comprehensive documentation to support knowledge sharing and ongoing system maintenance based on evolving project needs.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Expert-level proficiency in C# or C++. Must have proficiency in HLSL.
• 5+ years of software development experience, ideally within the gaming industry (Console, PC, or Mobile)
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical team members, and a desire to mentor junior team members.
• Proven ability to write clean, simple, and well-documented code based on design requirements.
• Demonstrated track record of working effectively both independently and collaboratively within a dynamic team.
• Experience with Android and/or iOS mobile application development.
• Up-to-date understanding of current mobile gaming trends.
• Experience working with Agile, Kanban, or similar project management methodologies.
• Experience with at least one graphics API (e.g. Metal, Vulkan, OpenGL, DirectX).
• Proficiency rendering for game engines such as Unity3D or Unreal Engine is nice to have but not required
• Experience with graphics debugging and optimization on Android and iOS platforms.
• Ability to profile and identify CPU and/or GPU performance issues, and implement optimizations.


if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!
• Hybrid Work: Kabammers typically spend at least two days per week in office. We believe in blending in-office collaboration with the freedom of remote work, and want everyone to have flexibility while fostering strong connections.