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.
ENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICESWhat 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.
What You'll Do
Full Stack Engineers at Epic impact a diverse set of initiatives from end to end. These range from the Epic Games Store to Fortnite social experiences; in-game features, and web applications supporting all kinds of community, marketing, and events content. We also build a variety of products that support other developers, from internal initiatives to third party teams worldwide. These include web portals for core platform services, marketplace and eCommerce applications, and beyond.
In this role, you will
- Use your hands-on expertise in developing web applications at a large scale, including making architectural choices, selecting programming languages and frameworks, and implementing them
- Showcase your familiarity with industry-standard web engineering practices and guidelines for the entire web development process, including coding standards, code reviews, version control, building, testing, deployment, and monitoring
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders, including users, technical teams, and management, to gather requirements, and explain technical designs / features
- Collaborate with team members to assess technical viability, test new technology and explore design options
- Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a culture of learning and innovation
What we're looking for
- Passion for crafting secure, scalable, and highly available web applications
- Experience architecting and leading innovative, complex web projects
- Deep knowledge of Typescript, JavaScript, React, Node.JS, and GraphQL
- Experience with Spring, Java, Python a plus
- Experience in collaborating with design teams to design, document and build design systems for scalable and consistent user interfaces
- Experience with building APIs and microservice architectures
- Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and DevOps principles
- Experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment
- Experience with cloud platforms (we use AWS)
- Familiarity with containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Deep Knowledge of performance optimization strategies for web applications
- Experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Cypress, or Playwright
- Understanding of accessibility best practices and tools (e.g., WCAG standards, Lighthouse)
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
$178,377—$261,620 USD
Washington Base Pay Range
$162,161—$261,835 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.
