Technical Consultant in Toronto collaborating with clients to tackle business challenges. Develops solutions using various technologies in a supportive hybrid environment.
About the role
- Game Engineering Internship at Arkadium working on live web games. Collaborate with experienced engineers and gain real-world game development experience in a hybrid environment.
Responsibilities
- Work on live web games used by millions of players
- Fix bugs across multiple game titles
- Implement small gameplay features and UI changes
- Debug gameplay logic, rendering issues, and performance bottlenecks
- Work with Git: branches, pull requests, and code reviews
- Learn and follow internal development workflows and tooling to accelerate game development
- Work on highly configurable games built to support multiple variants and skins
- Understand how shared systems allow core logic to be reused across different titles
- Learn how external services are integrated into the game stack
- Follow our SDLC: pick up tickets, update tasks, and help prepare releases
- Get exposure to CI/CD pipelines and understand how builds are created and deployed
- Collaborate daily with QA, Artists, Designers, and Product
- Participate in standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
- Have weekly 1:1s with your manager for feedback and growth discussions
- Learn how game KPIs work and how engineering decisions impact business metrics
Requirements
- Solid understanding of OOP principles: classes, objects, inheritance, and encapsulation
- Experience with at least one programming language (e.g., C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java)
- Good Computer Science fundamentals: data structures and algorithms
- Prior experience with game development (academic, personal, or professional)
- Understanding of core game architecture concepts: game loop, state management, assets, and components
- Basic understanding of browser environments
- Awareness of performance considerations in games
- Debugging skills: ability to isolate and reproduce issues
- Basic Git knowledge: branching, committing, pull requests
- Good organizational skills, autonomy, and ability to research independently
- **Nice to Have **
- A game development portfolio (*GitHub or playable demos*)
- Knowledge of design patterns
- Node.js / TypeScript fundamentals
- React fundamentals: components and state management
- Experience with HTML5 game development
- Understanding of MVC architecture
- Basic knowledge of unit or integration testing
Benefits
- Meal allowance through Coverflex
- Coverage by work accident insurance
- Transportation expenses, namely the cost of the monthly Navegante pass
- Summer Fridays - day off last Friday of June, July and August
- Partial Internship subsidy
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