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Lead Engineer

Pikemann LLC
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/18/2025

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.

    Pikemann is a recruiting company that was founded by three partners with over 40 years of experience providing contingent staffing and permanent placement services in the greater Seattle area. We partner with our clients to bring the right technology and finance candidates that meet their workforce needs.

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