UI Engineer

Splitgate is a free to play, fast-paced sci-fi multiplayer shooter that combines the strategic elements of portals with the explosive gameplay of a first person shooter. We quickly became a top trending game on PlayStation, XBOX, and Steam. In our first 6 days, we passed 1M downloads, and hit 2M within the first two weeks. We’re now at 15M+ downloads and growing. After receiving $100M Series A funding with a valuation of $1.5B, we are actively looking to grow our team with the best talent out there to continue the journey of making Splitgate a game that we and the millions of players in our gaming community are proud of.

As a UI Engineer you will work closely with UI/UX designers and other engineers to build a best in class user experience for Splitgate. You’ll achieve this by creating flexible, maintainable systems on top of Unreal Engine’s UMG that allow the designers to realize their vision for the UI.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with designers and artists
• Implement player-facing UI using UMG in Unreal Engine
• Architecting maintainable and reusable UI systems
• Refactoring legacy code to support new features
• Providing feedback on visual, game, and software designs
• Optimizing UI to keep the game running smoothly
• Providing support to designers working on your features
• Communicating with designers to clear up unknowns and edge cases
• Breaking down design mockups into actionable tasks

Qualifications

• Proficient with C++
• Understanding of asynchronous programming
• Understanding of garbage collection
• An interest in creating quality user experiences
• An interest in video games

Nice to Have

• Experience with supporting a live service game, delivering seasonal updates.
• Experience with a major game engine (Unreal Engine, Unity)
• Experience with UMG
• Experience building Console games
• Understanding of common UI architecture methodologies (MVC, MVVM)
• GitHub with recent personal projects, even better if they’re game projects
• Experience building Materials (shaders)
• Experience with Wwise