Principal Engineer – UE4 / Unreal Engine Mobile Game – Berlin, Germany/Remote Working Options

Project: UE4 / Unreal Engine Mobile Game

OPM’s client is a highly successful independent developer with over 20 years in the industry. They are seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to join their team.

The successful candidate will have a large scope of influence on the product to ensure that the technical team produces high-quality game features.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Extensive programming experience in game development with at least one shipped game
• Worked on multiple games and experienced in different areas of game development such as:

– Gameplay code, AI, and animation, etc.
– Online services, backend
– Build pipeline and automation

• Brilliant C/C++ programming skills with utilisation of solid software engineering practices
• Expertise working with Unreal Engine 4
• Experience in mentoring and hiring
• Proven ability to collaborate with different disciplines to discuss designs with respect to technical challenges
• Knowledgeable about and willing to pitch and present relevant topics
• Strong English language skills

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the Technical Director by guiding other engineers and maintaining best practices, development processes, and quality standards
• Design and implement well-engineered, reliable, maintainable solutions
• Spot potential problems and recognise opportunities to improve games or general workflows and seek to make these changes
• To guide the teams on technical solutions and be on top of the latest technologies and development in the industry that enables you to improve the game and their work
• Work with an interdisciplinary agile team to design, prototype, and implement new gameplay features
• Mentoring and taking part in the hiring

BENEFITS:

• Relocation bonus
• Occupational pension scheme
• Job ticket for public transportation system
• Flexible working hours
• In-house massages & gym membership

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 418!