// Open Role at Barnstorm VFX
Join Barnstorm VFX as a Senior Environment Generalist in Vancouver. Craft stunning, photorealistic environments for film and episodic projects, utilizing your expertise in modeling, texturing, lighting, and Houdini to build immersive worlds.
Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Language: English
FTE: Full-time, hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
Employment type: Initial Fixed-term contract for 12 month
About Newzoo:
Newzoo is the global leader in PC and console games data, empowering companies to make confident strategic and operational decisions. With 17 years of expertise, Newzoo provides best-in-class proprietary data through a platform offering game-level metrics, gamer insights, market intelligence, and storefront data. Trusted by 80% of the top game developers and publishers, Newzoo is the most quoted and reliable source for PC and console gaming insights.
About you:
You care about problem-solving more than about technology for its own sake. You're happy working in a stable, well-understood stack because you'd rather spend your cognitive budget on the problem than on the plumbing. You ask why before you ask how. You take reliability personally. When something breaks, you want to understand it, not just patch it.
You don't need to be a gamer. You do need to be genuinely interested in working on hard data problems. Ours happen to live in the gaming industry.
About the role:
You'll join our Engineering team as an individual contributor, working across the full backend surface. That means the services and APIs that power our products, the infrastructure that keeps them running, and the data collection pipelines that feed them. What you focus on in any given week follows where the business needs you most. Backend feature work when product is shipping. Pipeline work when we're onboarding a new data source. Infrastructure work when we're hardening something for scale.
Your responsibilities:
Our stack
We primarily work with Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, Kubernetes, and GCP. Our stack is deliberately stable so engineers can focus on solving important product and data problems, improving quality, and building systems that last.
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Interested?
Please upload your CV/resume and motivation letter explaining why Newzoo, what makes you great fit for this position and your quirks! In your cover letter, please answer this question: In 2 to 3 sentences, how would you start investigating a 30% week-over-week spike in our BigQuery costs? We're not looking for a "right" answer. We're looking for how you think. Use AI tools if you want to (we do), just make sure the reasoning is yours.
We believe great talent comes from all backgrounds. We welcome applications from people of all genders, identities, experiences, and perspectives.
If you're excited about this role but don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria. We don't expect anyone to tick every box - we value potential, curiosity, and diverse experiences as much as specific qualifications.
If this role interests you, we'd love to hear from you!
Strong proficiency in Houdini for environment creation, layout, look development, lighting, and rendering. Excellent modeling, texturing, and asset assembly skills using industry-standard 3D software. A minimum of 4 years of professional experience as an Environment Artist or Environment Generalist in the VFX industry. Strong understanding of composition, scale, color theory, lighting, and environmental design. Experience creating high-quality, production-ready assets, UVs, and textures. Experience with Digital Matte Painting (DMP) workflows is a significant asset. Experience with environment lighting and look development is highly desirable. Ability to work collaboratively with artists across multiple disciplines. Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills. A portfolio demonstrating high-quality photorealistic environments for film, television, or related productions. Knowledge of virtual production workflows for film and television is considered an asset.