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Senior Technical Designer (Unreal/Godot)

As a Senior Technical Designer (Unreal/Godot), you'll be the go-to person for ensuring our products are easy to use with Unreal and Godot.  You'll work with directors to define key metrics, participate in product planning, collaborate with product owners to improve offerings, solve complex challenges, optimize performance, and integrate assets.  You'll also mentor junior developers, lead technical research, develop prototypes, and contribute to process improvement.  Experience building production games and understanding Unreal and Unity's core systems are essential.  A 'ship it' mentality and understanding game engines from a game designer or indie developer perspective are highly valued.  This role involves defining success metrics, planning and estimating work, improving product offerings, solving complex challenges, asset integration, mentoring junior developers, and conducting technical research.

<div class="prose prose-sm prose-alpha">About usWe’re on a mission to help more game developers, make more games, more easily.We’re the leading publisher of high quality art, animation, and UI assets used in game development, film, television, and more. Our products are designed to supercharge content production, and are trusted and used by thousands of developers world-wide. We are a fully remote, global company with a relentless focus on creativity and innovation!We're hiring an interesting role!If you’re someone who has a ship it mentality, and understands game engines from a game designer or indie game developer perspective then this role could be for you! Using your technical skills, and your ability to continuously ask “will this help our game devs” you’ll be our go to person for ensuring our products are easy to use with Unreal and Godot. You’ll mentor more junior members of the team, while providing guidance, support, and technical expertise throughout development of our products, collaborating with our Support and Technical &amp; Art teams to ensure high-quality production.Day to day you'll: <ul><li>Work with Directors to define key metrics to measure Unreal &amp; Godot product success</li><li>Participate in overall product planning with teams. Gathering input from customers (through the Community team) and Directors to plan and estimate work.</li><li>Collaborate with Product Owners and Directors to improve Synty’s product offerings on Unreal and Godot, taking ownership to be the technical expert.</li><li>Work to solve complex challenges, optimize performance, and improve the overall quality of our products across Unreal and Godot.</li><li>Integrate assets from other teams and disciplines with a good eye for feel and timing.</li><li>Lead the conversion of FX, shaders, collisions, and models for products in Unreal and Godot</li><li>Mentor and provide guidance to more junior developers, fostering their growth and development in Unreal and Godot development best practices.</li><li>Help direct or execute technical research, staying updated on new technical and technological developments.</li><li>Develop prototypes or proof-of-concept implementations.</li><li>Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes, tools, automations and workflows, identifying opportunities for increased efficiency and productivity.</li></ul>Apply if you're someone who: <ul><li>Has experience building production games</li><li>Understands Unreal and Unity and their core systems</li><li>Can prototype/create proof of concepts</li><li>Enjoys collaborative projects</li></ul>Bonuses:<ul><li>You have experience or an interest in Godot</li><li>You've worked for a fully remote company </li></ul></div>

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 <div class="additional-field-value-razor"><h2>Disney Entertainment &amp; ESPN Product &amp; Technology</h2>On any given day at Disney Entertainment &amp; ESPN Product &amp; Technology (DEEP&amp;T), we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.The Product &amp; Data Engineering team is responsible for end to end development for Disney’s world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products &amp; experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment &amp; ESPN Technology<ul><li>Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&amp;E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.</li><li>Reach &amp; Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.</li><li>Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment &amp; news.</li></ul>This role involves building and maintaining our Identity and Device Data products.&nbsp; These products serve as a comprehensive source of truth for customer identifiers and their devices. The role requires senior-level knowledge of building scalable, fault-tolerant data processing pipelines and backend to ensure the reliable delivery of both real-time and batch data.<h2>Responsibilities</h2><ul><li>Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand Identity and Device data product offerings</li><li>Enhance/redesign existing data models with input from Architecture in order to modernize products and/or improve performance and efficiency. Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable. Participate in code reviews and as well as on-call support roster.</li><li>Promote and support Agile methodologies such as Scrum, and Kanban by actively participating in regular ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning.</li><li>Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.</li><li>Serve as a senior resource to other Data Engineers on the team, and mentor junior members of the team helping to improve their skills, knowledge, and productivity.</li></ul><h2>Basic Qualifications</h2><ul><li>5+ years of related big data engineering experience modeling and developing large data pipelines</li><li>Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Hadoop or Databricks compute using tools/libraries such as Spark, Presto, Hive to query and process large datasets at the petabyte level.</li><li>Strong Python, Scala and SQL skills processing big datasets</li><li>Experience with at least one major MPP or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query, Databricks)</li><li>Familiarity with Data Modeling techniques and Data Warehousing standard methodologies and practices</li><li>Operational experience in multi-system/services production environment as senior data engineer and point-of-contact / SME</li><li>Problem solving skills with strong attention to detail and excellent analytical and communication skills</li><li>Solid experience with data integration and orchestration toolsets (e.g. Airflow), CI/CD</li><li>Solid experience with AWS S3</li></ul><h2>Preferred Qualifications </h2><ul><li>Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform</li><li>Experience with:&nbsp;Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, AWS &nbsp;</li></ul><h2>Required Education</h2><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.&nbsp;</li></ul><h2>Additional Information</h2>#DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $138,900 to $186,200 per year, in Seattle, WA is $145,400 to $195,000 per year, and in New York, NY is $145,400 to $195,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.</div>
 
 
 
 
 
 
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