Software Developer Serious Gaming

Working on the development of multiplayer serious games, doing:

• technical design on an architectural level
• software development
• innovating the product
• researching new technology

Experience with the development of high performance systems in areas such as graphical visualizations, A.I. or heavily multithreaded applications using:

• Agile design methods, preferably SCRUM
• Object Oriented programming
• Core JAVA or OpenGL development is a plus but not a necessity

Tygron was founded in 2005. Creating and deploying a new generation of serious games for companies and the higher (management-) education market. Partnerships with, among others, the Delft University of Technology have enabled the company to do much research and development.
Tygron Serious Gaming BV specializes in bringing real-life complex management challenges, which have multiple actors with unique tasks and different interests, into a ‘multiplayer serious game’, making use of modern game technology.
To realize this, we have a team of enthusiastic, highly motivated professionals in the field of software development, game design, artists and experts in realizing state of the art serious games. We cooperate with experienced partners with specialized knowledge.
The power of Tygron is to make a good translation of the processes in reality into a game. Serious games are not 100% exact design tools, but they will model the strategies (short-term and long-term), mechanisms, merits, problematic cases and actors and show how they relate to reality.

Tygron is quickly growing. Other type of jobs are open as well.

Passionate, creative, innovative, informal, enthusiastic, result-oriented

Salary is dependent on your professional level and is market conform. If your sole motivation is salary, you will probably be better off working somewhere else. Nevertheless, if you do prove to be this innovative, result-oriented software developer your salary will be quickly raised above the regular market level.

Secondary benefits :

• no fixed office hours
• 1 day per week working on your own personal development, budget is available to facilitate
• 32 holidays
• mobile phone
• travelling costs exceeding 10 km.