Lead Engineer (Unreal Engine)

Location: Fully remote; listed location is Eugene, Oregon, United States. Coordination with distributed teams across time zones is required.

Salary: $122,000–$146,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a game development and co-development studio creating cross-platform live games for major publishers and entertainment properties.

What you will do

• Build strong technical relationships with partner engineers and engineering leadership.
• Translate partner priorities into scoped tasks, coordinate estimates and assignments, and manage dependencies and acceptance criteria across external studios.
• Review technical designs, code, gameplay, animation, and in-game results for correctness, maintainability, performance, and alignment with partner standards.
• Lead cross-studio technical discussions, clarify requirements, resolve ambiguity, and support decisions within the partner’s architecture and processes.
• Track progress, blockers, delivery risks, integration, testing, and partner review readiness.
• Investigate difficult technical issues and provide hands-on support while keeping coordination and technical oversight as the primary focus.

Requirements

• Significant hands-on Unreal Engine experience and strong C++ proficiency in large production codebases.
• Demonstrated engineering leadership on complex game projects, including delegation, coordination, and accountability for delivery.
• Strong technical judgment, debugging, code review, and broad game engineering skills, with deep expertise in at least one area.
• Clear, concise professional communication for client-facing technical discussions and expectation management.
• Ability to understand unfamiliar projects, identify dependencies, turn incomplete information into actionable next steps, and keep distributed teams aligned.
• Substantial professional game engineering experience; at least one shipped commercial game or substantial production release is preferred.

Nice to have

• AAA co-development or client-facing engineering leadership experience.
• Experience coordinating multiple external studios or international engineering teams across time zones.
• Gameplay and character animation programming experience.
• Experience with late-production integration, bug fixing, and release stabilization.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexibility to work remotely, in an office, or in a hybrid arrangement.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with employer match and employer-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, 18–20 company holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Employee assistance program, fitness club discounts, sports team sponsorship, company events, and project wrap parties.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Hiring process

• Application review.
• Phone screen and interview.
• Team interview.