Senior Platform Programmer
Epic Games
- Location
- Onsite (Montreal, Quebec)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company known for its award-winning games and engine technology. This role is for a Senior Platform Programmer responsible for ensuring the stability and performance of multiple games across various platforms.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Telemedicine
- Life Insurance
- AD&D Insurance
- Long Term Disability Insurance
- Short Term Disability Insurance
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Employer Match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Well-being Program
- Therapy and Coaching
Full job details
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
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're looking for an experienced Senior Platform Programmer to own the stability of multiple games across Epic. You will play a critical role in identifying and preventing live issues across all platforms, including PC, consoles, and mobile devices.
In this role, you will
- Analyze and optimize both memory and performance across systems that must scale from high-end to mobile
- Ensure the proposed technical approach for a given feature satisfies both surface-level and deeper programming-specific requirements
- Propose and develop system changes needed to support reliability and work with game teams to integrate them
- Build tools to automate and validate performance in performance-critical systems
- Be a primary hub for communication and information that other disciplines can come to for guidance
What we're looking for
- Experience developing games professionally and shipping AAA titles
- A keen analytical mind, with strong problem-solving skills
- Strong C++ skills and the ability to code and create game systems and tools
- Familiarity with scripting systems like Blueprint, Lua, Python, etc
- Console and mobile experience are preferred
- Performance profiling and optimization experience
- Experience with Unreal Engine is highly preferred
- Experience working on a live service game
- Keen interest in games
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 US
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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