Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

PROGRAMMING - GAMES

What We Do

Unreal projects have been leading the pack of real-time entertainment with our constantly growing team of programming experts. We're always improving on the tools and technology that empower content developers worldwide.

What You'll Do

We are currently looking for a Senior Backend Programmer to join our Fortnite Online Services team. In this role at Epic, you'll be at the center of services that power Fortnite and related experiences for products around the globe. You will craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems. From design, implementation, and deployment you'll be able to shape the services and features that drive the future of our products. We're looking for a skilled, dependable innovator who works well with others and enjoys finding creative solutions.

In this role, you will
• Work with public cloud infrastructure like AWS to facilitate a fast-moving ecosystem, owning the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment while being flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space
• Collaborate effectively with other programmers, producers, product owners, cloud, QA, infrastructure and DevOps teammates in healthy ways to build and ship solutions
• Provide feedback and estimates on feature development (and other operational tasks) while owning the outcome/being accountable for the solutions built
• At Epic, programmers are empowered to get things done by assessing challenges, crafting solutions, and implementing them by writing distributed systems, primarily using Java, to handle large-scale challenges

What we're looking for
• 5+ years of software programming experience in developing online systems, with a solid background in writing large-scale distributed systems and a proven track record of operating live services at scale
• Hands-on experience with Epic's tech stack, including Java, Spring, AWS, Redis, DynamoDB, message queues, and Terraform
• Extensive experience working collaboratively with a team of programmers to solve large and ambiguous problems, with excellent communication skills to provide, solicit, and accept feedback constructively
• Previous experience with backend game services is a plus

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren't limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Washington Base Pay Range

$202,965 — $279,600 USD

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnqq63-18-219-253-199-42 in your application.