Lead Engine Programmer

Epic Games • Cary, NC

68d

About The Position

As part of the Unreal Engine team, you'll 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 delivery. In addition to evolving our tools for user-created content, you'll also be involved in extending this technology to service the needs of our first-party titles like Battle Royale, Lego Fortnite, and Rocket Racing. Our work will reshape how all of these products are built and evolve Fortnite into a true open metaverse platform that will form the basis of the Unreal Engine itself. Most importantly, you'll work with a creative, energetic, and fun team to continue making Fortnite one of the world's most popular and engaging gaming experiences!

Requirements

• Proven experience leading an engineering team
• Experienced C++ engineering skills
• Working experience and familiarity of modern profiling tools
• Demonstrates a passion for improving developer workflows and user experience
• Experience of working with large datasets and processing information efficiently
• Proven ability to communicate progress, present plans and deliver documents to stakeholders
• A good team player, collaborator and mentor to our engineering team
• Can drive forward long term development goals whilst delivering on short term wins holding a team accountable for their output
• Ability to work cross organisation, network, build relationships and coordinate with other teams

Responsibilities

• Lead a team that maintains, optimises and enhances the cloud engine technology behind UEFN
• Be a vision holder for our medium and long term UEFN pipeline development strategy
• Be responsible for live operational management of the UEFN cloud engine pipeline
• Work closely with game teams to gather and satisfy stakeholder's requirements
• Actively contribute to the codebase, trouble shoot issues, ensure their timely resolution
• Plan, schedule and prioritise work with and for your team, identify risks and determine mitigations

Benefits

• 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
• 401k with competitive match
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents
• Company-wide paid breaks and events throughout the year
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees