Senior Backend Programmer

Senior Backend Programmer – Epic Games 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 part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users, constantly raising the bar of engine and game development. What 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 As a Senior Backend Programmer (Ecommerce) at the Fortnite Online team, you will help craft and improve highly available, high throughput, low latency services that empower critical features in Fortnite such as virtual currency, subscriptions, in‑game store, promotions, and many other monetization features. These services integrate with all major PC, console and mobile platforms, and scale with Fortnite for years to come. The Fortnite Online team is a collaborative environment and a successful candidate will help to foster an open, supportive culture in which everyone can be successful and their authentic self. In This Role, You Will Be empowered to assess a challenge, craft a solution, and implement it Write backend service systems to handle large scale challenges Closely work with client‑side programmers to craft highly‑efficient end‑to‑end solutions Collectively own the entire lifecycle of services, including live operations and deployment as a team Collaborate with teammates, upstream and downstream service owners, producers, and cloud, infrastructure and embedded DevOps programmers to ship solutions Own the outcome – be accountable for the solutions you build and remain flexible around ambiguity What We’re Looking For Experience developing scalable web services in the cloud (Java and AWS) Experience integrating with mobile or console store APIs Experience operating live services, from monitoring and troubleshooting to mitigating issues E‑commerce experience required Eager to share knowledge with, learn from, and grow together with the team Nice to have: Experience developing client‑side applications for PC, gaming consoles, or mobile devices (C++ and Unreal Engine) Nice to have: Familiarity with non‑relational databases and common authentication models (DynamoDB, Redis, OAuth, etc.) Benefits 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, weekly indemnity (short‑term disability), and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP, we also offer a robust mental well‑being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents. Pay Transparency Information British Columbia Base Pay Range$187,634 — $275,196 CAD About Us 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 create visually stunning experiences. Our engine technology is also embraced by content creators across media, automotive, and architectural design industries. Equal Opportunity Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity policy here. Recruitment Agencies Epic does not accept unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party. We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details can be found here. Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level Employment Type Full‑time Job Function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Computer Games, Software Development, and Entertainment Providers #J-18808-Ljbffr