Senior Engine Programmer, Lego Fortnite

Job Description

PROGRAMMING - GAMES

What We Do

Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of programming experts. We're always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

Today, we are growing the team that is forging the first adventures in LEGO Fortnite, blending the engaging and welcoming Fortnite universe with the creativity and playfulness of LEGO. We're looking for a Senior Engine Programmer to help build the core technology for LEGO Fortnite. Using the tools and pipelines of Unreal Engine, you'll work on all aspects of the core engine technology behind a cutting-edge game experience. Most importantly you'll work with a creative, energetic, and fun team to bring a brand new game experience to players around the world!

In this role, you will
• Analyze and optimize both memory and performance in systems that have to scale from high-end to mobile systems
• Design and implement new engine runtime features for the game, and the Unreal Engine itself
• Design and implement APIs and supporting tools as required by the demands of the project
• Partner with other LEGO Fortnite teams as a generalist programmer so we can flexibly deliver our fast paced and broad roadmap

What we're looking for
• Excellent C++ experience, and familiarity with scripting systems like Blueprint, Lua, Python, etc.
• Unreal Engine experience (UE4 or UE5)
• Experience in a broad range of programming areas on shipping games or real time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code and deep optimization
• Well-versed in software programming principles
• Experience in a cross-disciplinary development environment with excellent communication skills. You should be able to communicate and explain trade-offs with non-programmers!
• Fearless attitude to making deep and profound changes to an existing engine to provide paradigm shifting improvements that change the world
• Experience developing in a large codebase at a fast pace, making trade-offs between usability, performance, and power

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxexv1-18-118-2-15-42 in your application.