Lead Engine Programmer, Core Systems (Unreal Engine)

TL;DR

Lead Engine Programmer, Core Systems (Unreal Engine): Developing low-level tools and improving the performance of systems for Unreal Engine and UEFN, and pipelines for Epic's internal games like Fortnite, with an accent on optimizing iteration times, memory usage, and user experience. Focus on working with large, complex code bases to understand and resolve performance issues and establish test workflows to validate improvements and prevent regressions.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global creates award-winning games and engine technology, including Unreal Engine, empowering content developers worldwide to build visually stunning interactive experiences and 3D content.

What you will do

• Optimize iteration times and improve existing systems for performance, memory usage, and user experience.
• Develop custom tools and pipelines for other programmers and content creators.
• Analyze large, complex code bases to understand and resolve performance issues.
• Establish test workflows to validate performance improvements and prevent regressions.
• Support external customers by answering their technical requests and questions.

Requirements

• Excellent C++ knowledge.
• Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipelines.
• Experience in profiling and optimizing a large codebase.
• Demonstrated ability to reason about large, interacting systems from the macro-level to the micro-level.
• Passion, solution-oriented, proactive, and autonomous work style.

Nice to have

• Good knowledge of the reflection system and serialization versioning.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment.
• 100% employer-paid benefits (except PMI for dependents), including pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability, and life insurance.
• Critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals.
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.