Mobile Programmer

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Engineering - Games

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Role Overview

The Fortnite Technology Team is looking for an experienced Mobile Platform Engineer passionate about creating world-class, industry leading game engine technologies, targeting the full spectrum of the Android and IOS platforms. The role involves working with the latest in Unreal software and mobile hardware offerings to design and implement platform APIs, guide cross-platform API development, and create robust platform support as required by the demands of Fortnite.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a wide variety of Fortnite engineering and content creation teams to solve complex technical challenges in ways that move the stability and quality of Fortnite forward.
• Implement and improve various low-level systems that interface with platform APIs, such as memory allocators (physical and virtual), file systems, input systems, graphics APIs (Metal and Vulkan), and shader compilers.
• Analyze and continuously strive to solve and optimize problems related to a modern game engine (load times, memory usage and platform specific performance issues) and the wide range of content delivered within Fortnite.
• Make improvements to platform toolchains, including compiler/linker support, deployment to device, SDK upgrades, platform specific data management tools, debugger integration, and crash reporting.
• Help embrace, support, extend, and enhance the engine for future hardware.

Qualifications

• Strong programming background and C++ knowledge.
• Experience with a broad range of engineering areas in shipping games or real-time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code and deep optimization.
• Experience developing for Android or IOS-based systems.
• Well-versed in software engineering principles.
• Familiarity with an existing game engine with an understanding of engine and editor concepts.
• Familiarity with development tools and profiling on modern systems, including frame capture and profiling with engine-level and platform-specific tooling.
• Experience developing in a large codebase at a fast pace, making trade-offs between usability, performance, and power.

Bonus Skills

• Prior shipped projects with Unreal Engine.

Benefits

• 100% coverage for benefits for both employees and dependents, including medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Supplemental benefits including daily meal vouchers.
• Commuter benefits for onsite employees.