# Lead Engine Programmer

**Company**: Epic Games
**Location**: Montreal, Canada
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739711

**Apply**: https://www.epicgames.com/en-US/careers/jobs/5809435004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5eeb40ae-165

## Description

## Lead Engine Programmer

At Epic Games, we're looking for a talented Lead Engine Programmer to join our Unreal Engine team. As a key member of our team, you'll be responsible for leading a group that maintains, optimises, and enhances workflows and tooling behind Unreal Editor for Fortnite.

### Key Responsibilities

- Lead a team that maintains, optimises, 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 prioritise 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 organisations, networks, build relationships, and coordinate with other teams

## Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including 100% coverage for benefits for both employees and dependents, as well as a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Unreal Engine
- Team Leadership
- System Design
- Code Review

### Nice to have
- Cloud Computing
- Containerisation
- DevOps