Technical Lead, UI Systems & Performance

Ubisoft Montréal; Montreal; Sur place; CAD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Ubisoft Montréal is seeking a Senior UI Programmer – Technical Lead to act as the primary technical contact for all UI systems on a AAA first-person shooter project. You will bridge engineering, UI integration, and art to deliver polished, performant, and accessible UI across gameplay, menus, HUD and frontend.

You will lead a team of UI integrators and technical artists, define UI standards, and drive architectural decisions while collaborating closely with UX/UI designers to ensure design

Qualifications

• Shipped 2+ AAA titles with substantial UI programming ownership.
• Deep experience with a visual/node-based UI scripting system (UI Graph or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to profile and optimize UI in a real-time engine.
• Experience debugging and resolving crashes in a production game.
• Track record supervising or mentoring UI Integrators or junior programmers.
• Solid grasp of UI architecture: components, data binding, state management.

Responsabilités

• Serve as the go-to expert for all UI technologies in the project: Snowdrop UI framework, project UI systems, and tools.
• Manage the UI technical roadmap: architecture decisions, framework upgrades, deprecations.
• Define and enforce UI coding standards, component templates, and integration workflows.
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks hindering UI integrators and artists.
• Supervise a team of UI integrators and technical artists in the UI Graph editor.
• Review work for accuracy, performance, and adherence to design intent.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure technical alignment with design.

Connaissances

AAA titles

UI Graph / visual scripting

UI profiling

Crash debugging in production

Mentoring teammates

UI architecture

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Outils

UI Graph

Description du poste

Ubisoft Montréal is seeking a Senior UI Programmer – Technical Lead to act as the primary technical contact for all UI systems on a AAA first-person shooter project. You will bridge engineering, UI integration, and art to deliver polished, performant, and accessible UI across gameplay, menus, HUD and frontend.

You will lead a team of UI integrators and technical artists, define UI standards, and drive architectural decisions while collaborating closely with UX/UI designers to ensure design