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 to build bigger and better experiences with an accent on dynamic content authoring and delivery. Focus on designing systems for incremental large-scale changes in a live product and extending this technology to serve first-party titles.

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Salary: $182,815—$268,128 CAD

Company

hirify.global is a product company making award-winning games and engine technology, with over 4,500 employees globally.

What you will do

• Lead a team that maintains, optimizes, and enhances workflows and tooling behind UEFN.
• Be a vision holder for medium and long-term UEFN pipeline development strategy.
• Design systems and approaches to making large-scale changes incrementally in a live product.
• Work closely with game teams to gather and satisfy stakeholders’ requirements.
• Actively contribute to the codebase, troubleshoot issues, and ensure timely resolution.
• Plan, schedule, and prioritize work with and for your team, identify risks, and determine mitigations.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading a programming team.
• Strong C++ programming skills.
• Proven experience in architecting, developing, and releasing large systems.
• Can drive forward long-term development goals whilst delivering on short-term wins, holding a team accountable for their output.
• Demonstrates a passion for improving developer workflows and user experience.
• Ability to communicate and work across organizations, networks, build relationships, and coordinate with other teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment.
• 100% company-paid benefits for employees and dependents (supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life, AD&D, long term disability, weekly indemnity).
• Retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.
• Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion as an Equal Opportunity employer.