Lead Engineer

Permanent/Full Time - 100% Remote

Pikemann is looking for a Lead Engineer to join them in working on one of the largest AAA games in the world. Join a world-class group of engineers and designers, bringing your talent to bear working on games that will be played by millions.

As a Lead Engineer, you know what it takes to lead a team and how to inspire others to dream more, learn more, and become more. Your team can rely on you to keep them focused and on the right track. In this leadership role we are looking for a strong ability to serve and advocate for the engineering team, to help nurture, and guide other engineers through both mentorship and peer reviews. Our Lead Engineer will serve as a passionate collaborative partner alongside the design and gameplay teams to prototyping unique and engaging gameplay experiences.

What You're Going to Do

Design, create, and maintain strong and highly optimized systems that fulfill all design, technical, and scheduling criteria.

Create, evaluate, and offer comments on system technical and end-user documentation.

Collaborate with Technical Leadership and Engineering to establish technical design and architecture.

Assure system stability and correctness through finding, discussing, and resolving faults.

Engineers on your team will benefit from your assistance, direction, and oversight.

Peer reviews provide valuable input and enforce code standards.

Work with production and QA to achieve realistic timeframes for the successful deployment of products and systems.

Collaborate directly with designers, content teams, and other engineers to prototype, create, and enhance gameplay features.

What You'll Bring

5+ years of experience in software development

4+ years of experience creating in a collaborative setting

2+ years of professional C++ advance experience

2 year of professional UE4 work

Working knowledge of several code bases

Engineers, content creators, and managers should be able to freely debate and analyze technical proposals, requirements, designs, algorithms, source code, and reference documentation.

Capability to deliver accurate time estimates for major projects

Work with limited supervision on high-impact jobs or autonomously on low-risk ones.

Capable of detecting and correcting regions that might benefit from optimization

The ability to write thread-safe code

Outstanding debugging abilities

Observing strict project coding requirements

Excellent cross-disciplinary collaborative abilities

Expertise in 3D math as it applies to game programming

Nice to Have

Has shipped at least one game

AAA game development experience

Experience with networked client/server architecture

Previous experience in a leadership role

Benefits

Generous PTO

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, & Vision coverage

Healthcare and Dependent Care FSAs

401k with company match

Life and Disability insurance

Technology Stipend

Paid Sick leave

Commuter benefits

This is a remote position.