Lead Engineer - Fortnite Online

1 Month ago • All levels • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Lead Engineer on the Fortnite Online team, you'll lead a team (4-6 engineers) developing cross-platform online features within Unreal Engine and Fortnite. Responsibilities include scoping and prioritizing work, collaborating with various teams (across different projects), guiding technical designs and system architecture, building tools and APIs for Unreal Engine developers, researching new online functionalities, supporting external developers, and providing documentation. You'll work on features across multiple Fortnite game modes and ensure the underlying systems are robust, secure, and feature-rich, focusing on client and dedicated server code while partnering with backend teams. This role requires strong leadership, C++ skills, and experience with game or game engine technology.
Must have:
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Experience with large, robust systems
  • Unreal Engine & console development experience (preferred)
  • Strong C++ fundamentals
  • Strong interpersonal skills
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
  • Long-term disability & life insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO & sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

Job Details

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.

ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICES

What We Do

Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 5. We bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.

What You'll Do

As a member of the Fortnite Online team, you can expect to contribute across a variety of online features that power Fortnite game modes such as Battle Royale, LEGO, Rocket Racing, and Disney experiences. You will also build tools and APIs for creators using the Unreal Engine Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). You will help improve the Unreal Engine by building new tools and APIs that will be utilized by AAA game developers. These systems are cross-platform, and you will be working with various hardware platforms, from desktop to all the consoles (Playstation / Xbox / Nintendo) to mobile. Your primary focus will be on the client and the dedicated server code, but you will partner closely with backend service teams as well as game teams, ensuring that the underlying systems that are built are full-featured, resilient, and secure.

In this role, you will

  • Lead a team of 4-6 engineers working on cross-platform online features in Unreal Engine and Fortnite
  • Scope and prioritize work in close collaboration with the team, making trade-offs when they’re appropriate
  • Work closely with other teams, often across different projects, along with their leads and production to align feature work to help deliver on projects successfully. Build strong relationships with adjacent teams
  • Help guide technical designs and architect systems to power the Unreal Engine tools and APIs that make it easier for all developers to implement online features
  • Research capabilities for new online functionality available on various platforms
  • Support external Unreal Engine developers by answering their requests and questions about online systems
  • Help provide clear samples and thorough documentation that showcase how to best use the online APIs and tools in the Unreal Engine

What we're looking for

  • Excellent leadership skills, including mentoring your team, planning technical roadmaps, making trade-offs, and prioritization
  • Experience implementing and debugging large, robust systems on game or game engine technology
  • Unreal Engine and console development experience preferred but not required
  • Strong C++ Fundamentals
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work across teams to understand technical and non-technical needs from diverse stakeholders
  • Focused on engineering excellence and a passion for well designed and architected systems
  • A desire and willingness to jump into the weeds and do engineering work as needed to deliver strategic outcomes If this sounds exciting, we would love to talk to you

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

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 .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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