Lead Engine Programmer

WHAT MAKES US EPIC

At the core of Epics success are talented passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative welcoming and creative environment. Whether its building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences were always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. Were constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

PROGRAMMING - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What Youll Do

As part of the Unreal Engine team youll be leading a group responsible for the entire technology stack behind Unreal Editor for Fortnite empowering creators to build bigger and better experiences while pushing the boundaries of the state of the art in dynamic content authoring and addition to evolving our tools for user-created content youll also be involved in extending this technology to serve the needs of our first-party titles such as Battle Royale Lego Fortnite and more. Our work will reshape how all of these products are built and evolve Fortnite into a true open metaverse platform. Most importantly youll work with a creative energetic and fun team to continue making Unreal the best engine available for game development.

In this role you will

• Lead a team that maintains optimises and enhances workflows and tooling behind UEFN.
• Be a vision holder for our medium and long-term UEFN pipeline development strategy.
• Design the systems and approaches to making large-scale changes incrementally in a live product.
• Work closely with game teams to gather and satisfy stakeholders requirements.
• Actively contribute to the codebase troubleshoot issues and ensure their timely resolution.
• Plan schedule and prioritize work with and for your team identify risks and determine mitigations.

What were looking for

• Proven experience leading a programming team
• Strong C programming skills
• Proven experience in architecting developing and releasing large systems
• Can drive forward long-term development goals whilst delivering on short-term wins holding a team accountable for their output
• Demonstrates a passion for improving developer workflows and user experience
• Ability to communicate and work across organisations networks build relationships and coordinate with other teams

EPIC JOB EPIC BENEFITS EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical dental vision critical illness telemedicine Life and AD&D long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer addition to the EAP (employee assistance program) we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4500 employees globally. For over 25 years weve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epics award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity interactive experiences for PC console mobile and VR it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment automotive and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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