Senior Backend Programmer

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

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.

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.

• 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 Dev Ops programmers to ship solutions
• Own the outcome – Be accountable for the solutions you build and flexible around the ambiguity of the problem space

• Experience developing scalable web services in the cloud (we use Java and AWS)
• Experience integrating with mobile or console store APIs
• Experience operating live services, from monitoring, troubleshooting, to mitigating issues
• E‑commerce experience required
• Eager to share knowledge with, learn from, and ultimately grow together with the team
• Nice to have:
  Experience developing client‑side applications for PC, gaming consoles, or mobile devices (we use C++ and Unreal Engine)
• Nice to have:
  Familiarity with non‑relational databases and common auth models (We use Dynamo
  
  DB, Redis, OAuth, etc)

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well‑being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

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.

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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