Senior Engine Programmer

Epic Games; Montreal; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game development company in Montreal is looking for a Senior Engine Programmer to enhance tools for Unreal Engine. You will optimize performance and support developers with automated solutions. Ideal candidates have a strong C++ background and a passion for problem-solving. This role offers generous benefits, including comprehensive health coverage and mental well-being programs.

Benefits

100% health benefits

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Employee assistance program

Mental well-being program

Qualifications

• Experience in optimizing performance and memory usage in large codebases.
• Ability to work with multithreaded systems and understand complex dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Optimize iteration times and improve systems for performance.
• Develop custom tools and pipelines for programmers and content creators.
• Support external customers with technical requests.

Skills

C++ knowledge

Writing multithreaded code

Profiling and optimizing a large codebase

Passionate and solution-oriented

Job description

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 - UNREAL ENGINE

What We Do

Unreal-powered projects have been on the bleeding edge of real-time entertainment for over 20 years. Our team of programming experts are always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

Epic Games seeks an experienced Senior Engine Programmer to join our Developer Experience and Efficiency team. In this role, you’ll develop low-level tools and improve the performance of systems that all UE and UEFN users use to build and ship their games, as well as pipelines Epic uses internally to ship the Unreal Engine and games like Fortnite. The ideal candidate will love practical problem-solving and have an affinity for improving the day-to-day workflow of other developers.

In this role, you will

• Optimize iteration times and improve existing systems for performance, memory usage, and user experience
• Develop custom tools and pipelines for other programmers and content creators
• Work with a large, complex code base to understand and resolve performance issues
• Establish test workflows to validate performance improvements and prevent regressions
• Support external customers by answering their technical requests and questions

What we're looking for

• Excellent C++ knowledge
• Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipeline for large games
• Experience in profiling and optimizing a large codebase
• Demonstrated ability to reason about large, interacting systems from the macro-level to the micro-level
• Someone passionate, solution-oriented, proactive, and autonomous
• Good knowledge of the reflection system and serialization versioning is a plus

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 spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 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!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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