Lead Engine Programmer (Game Development)

TL;DR

Lead Engine Programmer (Game Development): Leading a team that maintains and enhances workflows and tooling behind Unreal Editor for Fortnite, empowering creators to build bigger and better experiences. Focus on dynamic content authoring and delivery, extending this technology to serve the needs of first-party titles.

Location: Montreal, Canada

Company

hirify.global spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 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 our medium and long-term UEFN pipeline development strategy.
• Design the 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 their 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

• We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents.
• Offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.
• Also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.