[PAID] Drop Games hiring for several positions

timofeji · Mar 2020

Description:
We're Drop Games, a group of industry vets working on a brand new title from the group up.

The company is based in NYC, but remote applicants are welcome!

Talent Required:

All of these positions are full-time.

3D Technical Animator:

Responsibilities

Communicate with other artists and engineers to design and create animation systems
Collaborate with game designers and engineers to create viable animation sets for in-game assets
Provide extensive feedback to engineers for the development of in-house animation software
Participate in design meetings to create, develop and animate compelling characters
Work and collaborate with a remote team
Create measurable success, be self-directed, and manage your own workload

Basic Qualifications

Experience creating animation assets for film or games
Versatility and ability to create assets across different styles using a variety of animation techniques
Experience with general-purpose art software such as Blender, 3DS Max or Maya
Understanding of fundamental animation principles
Strong knowledge of rigging, procedural animation and other technical animation principles
Ability to create clean and optimized animation assets within UE4
Excellent communication, visual design, and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

Strong scripting and technical/engineering skills
Experience with visual design, rendering etc.

3D Character Artist:

Responsibilities

Communicate with other artists and participate in art-design meetings to create interesting, rich, and believable character designs
Create high-resolution character sculpts in sculpting software such as Zbrush, Modo, Blender
Retopologize and create clean low-poly topology and UVs
Collaborate with animators to assure believable movement for the characters
Work on a completely remote team
Create measurable success, be self-directed, and manage your own workload

Basic Qualifications

Experience creating character art assets for film or games
Versatility and ability to create assets across different art-styles and genres with an emphasis on character design
Deep understanding of human anatomy
Hard-Surface modeling skillset
Experience with general-purpose art software such as Blender, 3DS Max or Maya
Understanding of PBR and ability to create high-resolution PBR textures
Ability to create clean and optimized geometry with LODS
Excellent communication, and visual design skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with rigging/animation
Technical art experience

Software Engineer - Infrastructure/DevOps

Responsibilities

Take charge and develop backend infrastructure features from start to finish
Utilize an internal and external feedback loop while developing core features of our products
Work on a completely remote team
Create measurable success, be self-directed, and manage your own workload

Basic Qualifications

Excellent analytic, trouble-shooting, communication skillsets
Deep understanding of Computer Science/Information Technology concepts
Capacity to plan, architect, develop and deploy production-ready infrastructure supporting millions of concurrently connected users
Experience with a variety of programming languages for development task automation, generating reports, and creating tools (C#, C++, Python, Node, Go)
Experience in developing and optimizing REST services
Familiarity with NoSQL and SQL database concepts
Experience developing a large codebase using version control systems like git

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with our tech-stack: ASP.NET Core, AWS Gamelift, AWS Serverless(Lambda, DynamoDB, S3...)
Experience with container tools like Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with Linux

What We Offer:

Competitive salary
High equity stakes in an early startup
Company-paid annual retreats
Ability to work anywhere anytime.
No bosses (Flat management structure)

If interested:
apply at https://www.drop.software
or e-mail: jobs@drop.software