Senior Web Programmer
24 days ago
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.
ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE
What We Do
We enable Epic’s online services teams to build, deploy, and manage services that are used by more than half a billion players around the world. Our mission is to provide world class tools and platforms to improve the experience of our developers and make it easier, faster, and safer to build, operate, and scale their applications. We operate at massive scale as one of the largest cloud computing users in the world.
What You'll Do
In this role, you’ll work with web technologies to build the next generation of mobile social experiences for our players. You’ll work closely with our EOS SDK and game teams to implement core social features for our mobile platform, launcher and consoles. Most importantly, you’ll work with a creative, energetic, and fun team to build experiences for players across a multitude of games and devices!
In this role, you will
- Leverage deep full-stack understanding to solve complex technical challenges with novel solutions
- Work with Epic teams around the world to further develop and maintain responsive front end and user-centered web experiences, while also focusing on establishing core web standards for all of Epic’s websites
- Use a wide range of technologies based on the application and need - such as React, Node, Next.js, Remix and Typescript for in-house frontend applications
- Utilize AWS infrastructure to scale the entire Fortnite player base
- Opportunities to make an impact in many areas across the company
What we're looking for
- Passion for crafting secure, scalable, and highly available web applications
- Experience architecting and leading innovative, complex web projects
- Experience collaborating with a variety of strategic stakeholders to bring a product vision to life
- Deep knowledge of JavaScript, Typescript, React, Node, and GraphQL
- A strong understanding of performance and optimization
- Experience in collaborating with design teams to design, document and build design systems for scalable and consistent user interfaces
- Experience with cloud technologies (we use AWS)
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 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.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
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