Lead Engine Programmer, Core Systems

Lead a team responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing workflows and tooling for Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN).,Be a vision holder for the medium and long-term UEFN pipeline development strategy.,Architect systems and approaches for making large-scale incremental changes in a live product.,Collaborate closely with game teams to gather and satisfy stakeholder requirements.,Actively contribute to the codebase, troubleshoot issues, and ensure timely resolution.,Plan, schedule, and prioritize team work, identify risks, and determine mitigations.,Participate in technical discussions, review designs, identify technical risks, and evaluate tradeoffs.,Deliver work while balancing timelines, company priorities, team health, and sustainable work practices.,Set clear goals for the team and define growth opportunities.,Drive cross-team collaboration, fostering inclusivity, visibility, and clear communication.,Maintain a high bar for technical quality, supporting performance management and career progression.

Proven experience leading a programming team.,Strong C++ programming skills.,Proven experience in architecting, developing, and releasing large systems within a game engine context.,Ability to drive long-term development goals while delivering short-term wins.,Comfortable writing multithreaded code and reasoning about dependency graphs and content pipelines for large games.,Experience in profiling and optimizing a large codebase.,Demonstrated ability to reason about large, interacting systems from macro-level to micro-level.,Experience working with core engine or system-level codebases.,Ability to operate autonomously while aligning with broader technical direction.,Good knowledge of the Unreal Engine reflection system and serialization versioning is a plus.