Senior Unreal Engine Programmer - Remote/Hybrid

Torn Banner; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation & PTO

Employee Stock Options Plan

Flexible schedule

Healthcare & benefits

Parental leave top-up

Job summary

Torn Banner Studios in Toronto, Canada, seeks an experienced Senior Engine Programmer to lead core engine work and drive performance improvements across our titles.

You will work with Unreal Engine, tackle complex technical challenges, profile and optimize for multiple platforms, and collaborate with designers, artists, and other programmers. Flexible work arrangements include remote, in-office, and hybrid options; applicants must reside in Ontario or be willing to relocate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional game programming experience.
• Strong proficiency in modern C++.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 4/5 or similar proprietary engine.
• Solid understanding of game engine architecture and performance-conscious coding.
• Experience profiling, debugging, and optimizing code for performance and memory usage.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug, and optimize engine-level systems in Unreal Engine.
• Profile, analyze, and improve performance across target platforms.
• Investigate and resolve crashes, memory issues, multithreading/concurrency bugs, and platform-specific challenges.
• Collaborate with gameplay programmers and cross-disciplinary teams to develop technical solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve development workflows, tools, pipelines, and engine architecture.
• Contribute to the stability, maintainability, and long-term evolution of the codebase.
• Share knowledge through documentation, code reviews, and technical discussions.
• Help foster a collaborative, positive, and quality-focused engineering culture.
• Improve continuously the development practices, tools, and engineering processes.

Skills

Unreal Engine

C++

Game programming

Performance

Multithreading

Debugging

Collaboration

Communication

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Profiling tools

Job description

Torn Banner Studios in Toronto, Canada, seeks an experienced Senior Engine Programmer to lead core engine work and drive performance improvements across our titles.

You will work with Unreal Engine, tackle complex technical challenges, profile and optimize for multiple platforms, and collaborate with designers, artists, and other programmers. Flexible work arrangements include remote, in-office, and hybrid options; applicants must reside in Ontario or be willing to relocate.