Senior Backend Engineer, EPIC Games
$190-278.7k
+ Discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs)
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Interactive entertainment company
Job no longer available
Interactive entertainment company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190-278.7k
+ Discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs)
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create fun games we want to play and building the art and tools we need to bring those games to life.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years software engineering industry experience developing online systems
- Experience working with large scale, distributed systems (AWS, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Java, Spring)
- Proven track record of growing, guiding, and mentoring team members
- Proven track record of operating production online services at scale, leveraging industry best practices and standards
- Experience & comfort working in an ambiguous and sometimes chaotic environment
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to provide, solicit and accept feedback constructively
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll join our mission in delivering free, cross-platform game services for all developers.
- This role will help in building the future of matchmaking within Epic Online Services that powers games, such as Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys
- Epic believes in an open, integrated gaming community and this opportunity is to help us build just that on a global scale
- As a member of our team, you will lead us to craft highly available, high throughput, low latency services at scale, synchronous and asynchronous services, persistent connection services, and a variety of other systems
- These will all help to power our internal products and enable external development teams all over the world
- The Matchmaking team is a collaborative environment and you will help to foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and their authentic self
- Assess challenges, design solutions, and implement them
- Oversee technical design and drive implementation of robust online solutions
- Write and maintain distributed systems to handle large scale challenges
- Own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment
- Collaborate with service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded QA/DevOps engineers to ship quality software
- Deliver ongoing, transparent communication with a focus on expectations, fostering trust with internal stakeholders and external partners
- Provide technical leadership to guide the team and wider organization to deliver performant, maintainable and well-documented services
Our take
Epic Games is the creator of Fortnite, Unreal, Gears of War, Shadow Complex, and the Infinity Blade series of games. Epic's Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, AR, VR and the Web. Its recent announcement - Unreal Engine 5 - is set to lay the technical foundations for countless future releases.
Epic Games' model focuses on two key areas: creating games and offering its game engine technology to other developers. Doing this means that Epic Games' brand stretches beyond their own direct creations. The company has been able to put its name to some of the most iconic games of the last 20 years. Its most recent success is undoubtedly the creation of Fortnite, which has gained hundreds of millions of users since its launch in 2017.
Long-established as one of the leaders in their field, these are undoubtedly exciting times for Epic Games. The release of next-generation consoles like the PS5 has enabled Epic Games to push the limits of their software, meaning it'll lead the charge in the creation of next-gen games. 2024 saw an unprecedented investment in Epic Games by Disney, amounting to $1.5 billion. This will enable Disney to promote iconic characters through the Fortnite game. With the number of people enjoying video games continuing to grow, there is no sign of Epic Games slowing down any time soon.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2024
$1.5bn
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$2bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $8.6bn
Company benefits
- Insurance: Health, dental, and vision
- Retirement plan, 401(k) plan
- Performance bonuses (quarterly)
- Maternity/Paternity leave
- Paid holidays and sick days
- Employee discounts at the Epic Store
- Free lunches and snacks on site
- Pet-friendly offices so you can bring your well-behaved pet to work
- Company-sponsored social events such as happy hours and special events
Company values
- BE EPIC - Contribute to the unrelenting focus on innovation, quality and community that defines us
Company HQ
Cary, NC
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Leadership
Tim Sweeney
(CEO)Founded 'Potomac Computer Systems', which would later become Epic Games, in 1991, from his parents' house in Maryland.
Mark Rein
(Vice President)Joined Sweeney in 1992, when the two renamed Sweeney's company into 'Epic Games'.
People progressing
Joined as a UI/UX Developer in 2018, promoted to Lead Software Engineer after 18 months
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