Lead Engine Programmer - Online

Job Description

Lead Engine Programmer (Manager) - Online

ONLINE ENGINEERING

What We Do

The Unreal Engine Online team builds and supports the frameworks that empower the best online player experiences in Epic's games like Fortnite and Rocket League. In addition, we provide the Unreal Engine plugins that make it easier for developers to develop online features for their games across a variety of platforms and services.

What You'll Do

We're looking for a passionate Lead Engine Programmer to help empower the Unreal Engine Online team to build the best tools for online development. You will be managing a team of engineers and can expect to contribute across a variety of online features and hardware platforms, from desktop to console to mobile. You will partner closely with backend service teams as well as game teams, ensuring that the underlying systems we build are scalable and secure.

You should have a broad knowledge of modern game engine technology, as well as experience with utilizing online services in games. Additionally, you should have experience working closely with developers in all disciplines, not just other programmers. Your team's goal is to empower Unreal Engine developers, including Fortnite, to make world-class experiences using the systems that you create, through close iteration with both our internal game teams and external engine customers.

In this role, you will
• Manage a team of world-class programmers and coordinate development of gameplay systems.
• Architect and guide gameplay system development to help Unreal Engine grow to fit the needs of current and future games and applications.
• Research capabilities for online functionality available on various platforms such as authentication, commerce, matchmaking, player inventory, leaderboards, achievements, voice chat, parties, lobbies and more
• Mentor and foster the professional development of your team.
• Scope and prioritize work in close collaboration with the team, making trade-offs when they're appropriate.
• Work closely with other teams, often across different projects, along with their leads and production to align feature work to help everyone succeed.
• Design new APIs that will support online features for both Epic's games and the Unreal Engine
• Build tools that make it easier to develop online features
• Support external Unreal Engine developers by answering their requests and questions about online systems
• Provide samples and documentation that showcase how to best use the online APIs and tools in the Unreal Engine
• Bug fix and maintain the Unreal Engine code base..

What we're looking for
• Excellent leadership skills, including mentoring your team, planning technical roadmaps, making trade-offs, and prioritization.
• Focused on engineering excellence and a passion for well designed and architected systems
• Strong problem-solving, logic, and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with one or more of the following: game engines, consoles (Xbox, Nintendo, Playstation), or mobile (Android, iOS)
• Experience in a cross-disciplinary development environment, with excellent cross-discipline communication skills. You should be able to communicate and explain trade-offs with non-programmers!

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d58xnz-3-145-119-199-42 in your application.