# Technical Lead - UI Programmer (Far Cry)

**Company**: Ubisoft
**Location**: Montreal, QC
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Game Development
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Senior UI Programmer – Technical Lead serves as the primary technical point of contact for all user interface systems on the project.

### Technical Leadership

- Serve as the go-to expert for all user interface technologies in the project: the Snowdrop UI framework, game-specific UI systems, and tools.

- Manage the UI technical roadmap: architecture decisions, framework upgrades, and deprecations.

- Define and enforce UI coding standards, component templates, and integration workflows.

- Identify and resolve bottlenecks that hinder the work of UI integrators and technical artists.

### Team Supervision

- Supervise a team of UI integrators and technical artists working in the UI Graph editor.

- Review and validate work for accuracy, performance, and adherence to design intent.

- Mentor team members, conduct code and asset reviews, and provide clear, actionable feedback.

- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure that the technical implementation aligns with the design intent.

### Engineering

- Implement and maintain UI features across gameplay, menus, HUD, and frontend.

- Author and extend UI scripting in the visual graph language (UI Graph); support team members using it.

- Design reusable, scalable UI components following componentization principles , maintainability and reuse over one-offs.

- Implement adaptive layouts that handle multiple target devices, screen sizes, and resolutions.

- Integrate accessibility requirements (text scaling, colorblind modes, controller navigation, screen reader support).

### Performance & Stability

- Profile UI rendering and logic; identify and resolve underperforming areas (overdraw, excessive draw calls, expensive graph evaluations).

- Own and triage UI-originating crashes; lead post-mortems and drive fixes to completion.

- Establish and monitor UI performance budgets in collaboration with the engine team.

### Design Partnership

- Apply and advocate for core design principles throughout technical decisions: consistency, simplicity, and clear user feedback.

- Challenge implementations that compromise usability, even when technically correct.

### Qualifications

#### Must Have

- Shipped 2+ AAA titles with substantial UI programming ownership.

- Deep experience with a visual/node-based UI scripting system (UI Graph or equivalent).

- Demonstrated ability to profile and optimize UI in a real-time engine.

- Experience debugging and resolving crashes in a production game.

- Track record supervising or mentoring UI Integrators or junior programmers.

- Solid grasp of UI architecture: component hierarchies, data binding, state management.

#### Strong Assets

- Familiarity with responsive/adaptive UI design for multi-platform titles.

### What Success Looks Like

Six months in, this person has become the go-to for any UI tech question on the project, the team is unblocked and producing quality work, and the UI systems are stable, performant, and easy to extend.

## Skills

### Required
- Snowdrop UI framework
- UI Graph
- visual/node-based UI scripting system
- UI architecture
- component hierarchies
- data binding
- state management
- responsive/adaptive UI design
- real-time engine
- UI performance optimization

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