Lead Engine Programmer (Unreal Engine)

TL;DR

Lead Engine Programmer (Unreal Engine): Leading a team responsible for the entire technology stack behind Unreal Editor for Fortnite, empowering creators and pushing the boundaries of dynamic content authoring and delivery with an accent on evolving tools for user-created content and extending technology for first-party titles like Battle Royale, Lego Fortnite, and Rocket Racing. Focus on reshaping how products are built, evolving Fortnite into an open metaverse platform, and ensuring a popular and engaging gaming experience.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global product company with 46 studios and over 4,500 employees, known for making award-winning games and the Unreal Engine technology.

What you will do

• Lead a team that maintains, optimizes, and enhances the cloud engine technology behind UEFN.
• Be a vision holder for the 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 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.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading an engineering team.
• Experienced C++ engineering skills.
• Working experience and familiarity with modern profiling tools.
• Demonstrates a passion for improving developer workflows and user experience.
• Experience working with large datasets and processing information efficiently.
• Proven ability to communicate progress, present plans, and deliver documents to stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% company-paid benefits (except PMI for dependents), including pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, and dental insurance.
• Disability and life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, and health checks.
• Meals are provided.
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, offering free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.