Senior Gameplay Engineer

Senior Gameplay Engineer

Reports to: Lead Gameplay Engineer

Employment Status: Full Time

Work Location: Bellevue, Washington; Vancouver, Canada

Project: Fortnite

Overview

Final Strike Games is an independent game-development studio with a passion for creating world-class multiplayer, shooter, and live-service games in Unreal Engine. Our team values honesty, transparency, and respect for all, while working together to create industry-inspiring game experiences!

Final Strike Games is looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer to join our studio and lead a small embedded team of engineers collaborating directly with Epic Games to create the latest and greatest weapons and gameplay items for the massively successful Fortnite franchise. Substantial experience building gameplay features such as weapons, items and abilities will be necessary to thrive in this role. You will be leveraging your collaboration skills to rapidly iterate with design on gameplay features, while applying your problem-solving abilities to achieve best-in-class levels of polish and robustness.

Your team will initially support Epic-led development efforts, with time expanding responsibility and autonomy to own entire bespoke features for Fortnite seasonal content. Team members are expected to lead with curiosity and to help cultivate a trusting and collaborative environment with your fellow engineers and development partners.

This is a remarkable opportunity to build shipping content for one of the most iconic game franchises in history, producing the weapons and items that lend Fortnite its unique identity!

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Work collaboratively with both FSG and Epic designers and engineers to produce best-in-class weapons, gameplay items, and abilities
• Act as functional engineering lead of the small embedded team working on Fortnite features 
• Own and drive technical design, implementation decisions, and best practices for your team’s efforts with minimal technical oversight
• Self-manage time and responsibilities
• Collaborate with production to create, assign, and prioritize deliverable objectives
• Actively participate in playtests and drive solutions for any encountered problems

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of gameplay engineering experience, preferably in multiplayer games
• 1+ shipped titles as an intermediate or senior gameplay engineer
• Strong programming skills in C/C++
• A strong understanding of Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Ability System (GAS), or equivalent experience building replicated weapons and gameplay abilities in a proprietary AAA engine

 Nice to have

• Experience with Live Services on a shipped AAA title

• Experience with gameplay networking (replication, prediction, etc.)
• Experience leading functional or feature development teams
  
  

Compensation & Employee Benefits

When we find the right person, we try to make an offer that will excite you. In addition to competitive base salaries, we also offer robust employee benefits:

• Health & Wellbeing: We know wellness is multi-dimensional, just like our employees. FSG offers comprehensive health coverage for you and your whole family.

• Total Rewards: We want you to feel empowered in all of life’s circumstances. In addition to offering competitive salaries, we offer stock options, bonuses, disability and life insurance, and retirement savings with matching.
  
  
• Flexible Time Off: We know that being your best at work means the ability to be present outside of work. We offer generous paid time off in addition to studio closure periods.
  
  
• Growth: Our studio is filled with innovators and fearless explorers of the unknown. These values lend themselves to curiosity and a passion for learning, which is why we prioritize career advancement opportunities, training, and professional development.
  
  
• Connection: We believe in hiring the best people, and that great teams make great games. We create opportunities several times a year to come together as a studio to play and build lifelong connections.

Final Strike Games is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please let us know.