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.

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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Senior Backend Programmer (Ecommerce) at the Fortnite Online team, you will help craft and improve highly available, high throughput, low latency services that empower critical features in Fortnite such as virtual currency, subscriptions, in-game store, promotions, and many other monetization features. These services integrate with all major PC, console and mobile platforms, and scale with Fortnite for years to come. The Fortnite Online team is a collaborative environment and a successful candidate will help to foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and their authentic self.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Be empowered to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it
• Write backend service systems to handle large scale challenges
• Closely work with client-side programmers to craft highly-efficient end-to-end solutions
• Collectively own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment as a team
• Work together with teammates, upstream and downstream service owners, producers and other cloud, infrastructure and embedded DevOps programmers to ship solutions
• Own the outcome - Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space