Lead Engineer, Game Engine - Central Tech

Are you ready to lead the team upgrading Bungie’s proprietary game engine to maximize the impact and efficiency of our development team? Are you excited to help build alignment with diverse customers across multiple game projects on the best investments to make? Do you enjoy improving game engine code and building powerful and expressive tools that let others realize their vision more effectively? Would you like to work on worlds that bring people together at a company that values your work-life balance and is invested in creating an inclusive workplace for every employee? 

As lead engineer of a new core engine team at Bungie, you will help develop new technologies and workflow upgrades for our award-winning proprietary “Tiger Engine”. Your team will build new frameworks for continuous integration, automated testing, code integration and engine customization that allow us to share engine upgrades more easily between different game projects. You will align with customers across various game projects on the priority and delivery schedule of engine upgrades. Finally, you will lead and mentor engineers in the engineering culture, technology, and best practices that enable us to empower content creators across Bungie to do their best work and ultimately improve our ability to create great games more effectively. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Manage engineers, providing support, mentorship, constructive feedback, and career development guidance
• Work with Central Technology leadership to define the future of our proprietary game engine
• Represent the game engine team to key stakeholders, balancing and prioritizing requests against the team’s roadmap
• Design, build, test, and maintain game engine improvements
• Be a key contributor in architecture reviews for game engine frameworks 

REQUIRED SKILLS 

• Willingness to be part of a “we” culture.  You work well with others to reach common goals— team fit and culture are especially important to us
• Experience leading teams developing complex products with high cross-team dependencies
• Ability to manage or mentor other engineers
• Understanding of game engine development practices and ability to write C++ engine code
• Ability to communicate with customers of different technical and non-technical backgrounds to help them navigate technology and achieve their goals 

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS 

• Experience with a proprietary game engine shared between multiple projects
• Familiar with agile software development (e.g., scrum, kanban, etc.)