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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.\nBeing Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.\nENGINEERING - EPIC GAMES SERVICES\nWhat We Do\nDriving 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nThe Applications Team builds desktop and web applications, as well as supporting online services to power content discovery and digital delivery. Our team of engineering experts is always innovating to improve the tools and technology that empower internal and external developers to deliver their digital content to users across multiple platforms. Whether it be supporting Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, or external partners, we are committed to improving the scalability, efficiency, portability, and stability of our tech offerings. As a member of our Applications team, you can expect to coordinate with a cross-site group of highly skilled individuals. You will have opportunities to architect new features and evolve existing products used daily by millions of gamers, developers, and enterprise professionals. You will partner closely with backend services teams to ensure that the underlying systems we build meet internal and external customer needs.\nIn this role, you will\nFocus on the technical implementation and evolution of the Epic Games Launcher desktop application\nBe hands-on and use your technical expertise to drive solutions for a range of challenges\nCollaborate with other teams (including Product, Design, QA, and Backend Service Teams)\nDesign, architect, implement, and ship well-documented new features\nImprove, and evolve existing tools and features\nMaintain and hunt for bugs in existing code bases\nTake part in foundational work as we embark on a new chapter for our desktop clients\nWhat we're looking for\nExperience building perfect experience-focused desktop applications, as well as strong professional experience building production software in Rust\nOwned and shipped large initiatives that require coordination across multiple teams\nAbility to architect system interfaces and tools\nTrack record of development on tight schedules with complex technical requirements\nPassion for building great user experiences and products that serve diverse use cases\nSomeone who is user-focused, solution-oriented, passionate, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and are at the core of just about everything we do\nThis role is open to multiple locations across the US (including WA).\nPay Transparency Information\nThe expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).\nWashington Base Pay Range\n$165,686—$243,007 USD\nABOUT US\nEpic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.\nLike what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!\nEpic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. 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