Senior Engine Programmer

Salary: £135,000 - 175,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for strong C++ skills and experience working in a large native codebase.
• We are looking for experience building user-facing tools, editor features, and complex interactive workflows.
• We are looking for experience building clients that interact with asynchronous or networked services.
• We are looking for a strong understanding of parallelism, networking, latency, and failure handling.
• We are looking for a strong eye for user experience and how technical behavior affects creator workflows.
• We are looking for experience working closely with Product, UX, and engineering teams to ship features.
• We are looking for experience with Unreal Engine, another game engine, or comparable tools development.
• Experience with Rust is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Build Unreal Editor features that bring cloud-based collaboration into everyday creator workflows.
• Implement responsive editor experiences that interact with asynchronous and distributed services.
• Work across editor, networking, storage, revision control, and UX systems to make cloud-backed workflows feel natural to Unreal Engine.
• Partner with Product and UX teams to turn product ideas into clear, practical, and polished editor experiences.
• Collaborate with backend and infrastructure engineers on features that span the editor and cloud services.
• Use modern development practices, including AI-assisted programming, to improve implementation, debugging, and iteration.

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• Cloud
• Mobile
• Rust
• Unreal
• VR
• UX UI Design
• GameDev
• 3D
• DevOps

More:

We are Epic Games, a leading interactive entertainment company with over 30 years of experience building award-winning games and engine technology. Our Unreal Engine empowers developers and creators to build high-fidelity interactive experiences across PC, console, mobile, VR, and other industries including media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. We foster a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment where talented people work to innovate and raise the bar for game and engine development. This role is within our Unreal Engine engineering team, focused on Unreal Cloud Services and Lore, our next-generation open-source version control system, helping shape the editor experience as Unreal evolves toward UE6. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, meals, and a mental well-being program through Modern Health with free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.

last updated 36 week of 2026