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What You'll Do
As a backend engineer for the Media Tools department, you will help support artists through the creation and maintenance of tools intended to transform, convert, and serve dailies and other work products for creative review. In addition to maintaining and adapting existing services to fit expanding needs, you can expect to research new technologies and implement optimizations. Through the tools and services you will write, you will enable artists to focus on creating art and supervisors to focus on providing direction.
In this role, you will
- Develop a highly secure, high-performance API to service the front-end application
- Create unit tests in order to prove functionality and validate against regressions
- Design interoperable services, cache layers, and routing with the application usage requirements in-mind
- Program Ruby, Elixir, and be willing to learn new technologies as needed
- Work closely with team members to understand product requirements and propose technical implementation solutions
- Collaborate with a distributed, agile team of developers, product managers, QA, and designers
- Continuously learn and improve your skills. This includes staying up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices
What we're looking for
- Experience with Ruby and other backend languages and frameworks
- Experienced in designing, developing and maintaining high availability secure web services
- Familiar with nginx, Elixir, Postgres
- Experience with Git, REST APIs
- Knowledge of service scaling, testing frameworks, and effective service logging
- Knowledge of data minimization best practices
- Understanding of eventual consistency concepts
- Experience with Autodesk Flow (Shotgun/Shotgrid) API
- Ability to learn new technologies and languages quickly
This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA & WA).
Pay Transparency Information
The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).
California Base Pay Range
$190,010—$278,682 USD
Washington Base Pay Range
$172,736—$253,347 USD
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.
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What We Do
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.
