Senior Backend Programmer

Epic Games; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Backend Programmer on the Fortnite Online Services team. This exciting role involves crafting and improving backend services that power critical features in Fortnite, including virtual currency and in-game stores. You'll work in a collaborative environment, tackling large-scale challenges and ensuring the reliability of live services. With a commitment to employee well-being, this innovative firm offers comprehensive benefits and a supportive culture that encourages growth and success. If you're passionate about programming and eager to make an impact in the gaming industry, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

100% Employee Benefits Coverage

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Critical Illness Coverage

Telemedicine Services

Life and AD&D Insurance

Long Term Disability Insurance

Short Term Disability Insurance

Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software programming experience in developing online systems.
• Experience in developing scalable backend web services in the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Craft and improve backend services for Fortnite's online features.
• Collaborate with client-side programmers for efficient solutions.

Skills

Software Programming

Backend Web Services

REST APIs

Cloud Development

Live Service Operations

Tools

Java

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

As a Senior Backend Programmer (Ecommerce) on the Fortnite Online Services team, you will help craft and improve highly available, high throughput, low latency services that empower critical features in Fortnite such as virtual currency, subscriptions, in-game store, promotions, and many other monetization features. These services integrate with all major PC, console and mobile platforms, and scale with popular games like Fortnite for years to come. The Fortnite Online team is a collaborative environment and a successful candidate will help to foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and their authentic self. Learn more at https://dev.epicgames.com/

In this role, you will

• Be empowered to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it
• Write backend service systems to handle large-scale challenges
• Closely work with client-side programmers to craft highly efficient end-to-end solutions
• Collectively own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment as a team
• Work together with teammates, upstream and downstream service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded DevOps programmers to ship solutions
• Own the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of software programming experience, with experience in developing online systems
• Experience developing scalable backend web services in the cloud (we use Java)
• Experience integrating with e-commerce systems via REST APIs
• Experience operating live services, from monitoring, troubleshooting, to mitigating issues
• Eager to share knowledge with, learn from, and ultimately grow together with the team

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.