Senior Unreal Engine Programmer - Live Content Delivery

Epic Games; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Mental well-being program

Job summary

Epic Games is seeking an experienced engineer to help design and deliver features for Unreal Engine, delivering high-quality content across platforms and workloads. You will work across game teams andEpic projects to shape content delivery at scale.

You will architect low-level systems, re-architect engine capabilities for long-term strategy, and own end-to-end feature delivery in a live product environment. Strong collaboration and cross-platform performance expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong C++ skills for low-level engine systems and tooling.
• Experience designing APIs with backward compatibility.
• Proven ability to apply design patterns in live environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and collaboration across teams.
• Experience across multiple programming languages.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience writing performant code for multiple hardware platforms.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement low-level engine systems across multiple platforms, including networking, I/O interfaces, analytics, and the language toolchain.
• Re-architect Unreal Engine to support delivering content on demand at a granular level.
• Own the design, development, and delivery of complex new features in a live game product.
• Bring together multiple engine subsystems to achieve maintainable functional solutions.
• Design stable APIs that expose engine capabilities to gameplay layers, for internal and external developers.
• Collaborate across core engine and gameplay teams to meet diverse and evolving needs.
• Drive technical excellence across platforms, including debugging, maintenance, reliability, and optimization.

Skills

C++

API design

Performance optimization

Cross-platform

Debugging

Communication

Team collaboration

AI tooling

Job description

Epic Games is seeking an experienced engineer to help design and deliver features for Unreal Engine, delivering high-quality content across platforms and workloads. You will work across game teams andEpic projects to shape content delivery at scale.

You will architect low-level systems, re-architect engine capabilities for long-term strategy, and own end-to-end feature delivery in a live product environment. Strong collaboration and cross-platform performance expertise are essential.