Epic Games

Senior Gameplay Programmer

Epic Games$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Exceptional C++ programming skills with a focus on gameplay mechanics development
  • Experience with gameplay systems and tools such as Gameplay Ability Systems and Enhanced Input
  • Demonstrated history of developing cross-platform game features
  • Significant background in online multiplayer game development
  • Understanding of user experience tradeoffs in game development
  • Proficient in collaborative teamwork across disciplines
  • Unreal Engine development experience is required.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement core gameplay features in collaboration with designers, animators, and artists
  • Solve technical challenges and maintain essential gameplay systems
  • Write robust, maintainable code and systems for gameplay
  • Diagnose and resolve gameplay, performance, and networking issues
  • Translate feature requests into actionable tasks for development.

Benefits

  • 100% coverage for employee and dependent medical benefits
  • Supplemental medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Access to critical illness and telemedicine services
  • Life and AD&D insurance, long-term disability, and short-term disability coverage
  • Retirement savings plan with competitive employer match
  • Employee assistance program and robust mental well-being program through Modern Health offering free therapy and coaching.
Full Job Description
PROGRAMMING - GAMES
What We Do

Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of programming experts. We're always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.
What You'll Do

We are a new and growing team at Epic, aiming to build innovative new experiences and technology. As a Senior Gameplay Programmer, you will play a critical role on a small and focused team. You will be responsible for core Gameplay features and supporting collaborative development between programmers, designers, and artists. You will have opportunities to work on various initiatives, get hands-on with cutting-edge technologies, and work with talented internal and external teams, all while building impactful experiences from concept to delivery.
In this role, you will
  • Work closely with design, animators, artists and maybe other Fortnite's ecosystem developers to design, implement, and deliver technical gameplay features and systems like player mechanics, player abilities, player progression, vehicle mechanics, game flow systems, world systems and activities and more
  • Solve technical challenges and maintain gameplay features and systems that underpin our specific game's features
  • Write robust, understandable, and maintainable code and systems
  • Diagnose and fix gameplay, memory, performance, networking, and scalability issues
  • Distill feature requests into meaningful, actionable work items
What we're looking for
  • Exceptional C++ programming skills and the ability to code and design gameplay mechanics and tools
  • Experience working with Gameplay systems (Gameplay Ability Systems, EQS, Enhanced Input, Animation, etc.)
  • Experience developing features for games across multiple platforms
  • Significant experience developing online multiplayer games or other interactive real-time technology applications with a strong online component
  • Interest in social, frontend, and gameplay-adjacent areas of game development
  • Ability to empathize with users and to balance the inherent tradeoffs in developing with great user experiences in mind
  • Keen analytical mind and mature problem-solving skills
  • Strong teamwork and cross-discipline collaboration skills, including the ability to deliver and respond to constructive feedback
  • Unreal Engine development experience mandatory
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and 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. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

About Epic Games

Epic Games is a video game development company that is best known for creating the popular game Fortnite. The company was founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. Epic Games has developed a number of other successful games, including the Unreal series and Gears of War. The company is also known for its Unreal Engine, a game engine that is used by many other game developers. Epic Games is committed to advancing the state of the art in game development and creating innovative and engaging experiences for players.
Learn more about Epic Games
Size
2,700 employees
Industry
Founded
1991

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