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Lead Engine Programmer

Epic Games

Cary, NC 02-13-2026
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  • Paid
  • Full Time
Job Description
ENGINEERING - 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 engineering experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
What You'll Do
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 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, you'll 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.
• Architect 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 we're looking for
• Proven experience leading an engineering team
• Strong C++ engineering 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

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-wpxkjp-216-73-216-130-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Epic Games

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.