Senior Backend Programmer

Description

The Programming – Epic Games Services team drives the plug‑in power behind Unreal Engine 5, bridging connections for licensees and internal game teams to online services. This enables games like Fortnite to combine platform and Epic online services for features such as login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics.

As a Senior Backend Programmer (Ecommerce) on the Fortnite Online team, you will design and improve highly available, high‑throughput, low‑latency services that power virtual currency, subscriptions, the in‑game store, promotions, and other monetization features. You will write large‑scale backend systems, own their full lifecycle—including live operations and deployment—and work closely with client‑side programmers, service owners, producers, and DevOps teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions while fostering an open, supportive culture.

• Craft and improve highly available, high‑throughput, low‑latency backend services for Fortnite monetization features (virtual currency, subscriptions, store, promotions).
• Write backend systems to handle large‑scale challenges and own their entire lifecycle, including live operations and deployment.
• Collaborate with client‑side programmers, upstream/downstream service owners, producers, cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ship end‑to‑end solutions.
• Assess challenges, design solutions, implement them, and be accountable for outcomes.

Requirements

• Experience developing scalable web services in the cloud using Java and AWS.
• Experience integrating with mobile or console store APIs and operating live services (monitoring, troubleshooting, mitigation).
• Required e‑commerce experience.
• Nice to have: client‑side development for PC, consoles, or mobile using C++ and Unreal Engine.
• Nice to have: familiarity with non‑relational databases and auth models (DynamoDB, Redis, OAuth).

Benefits

Epic provides 100 % coverage for employee and dependent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, short‑term indemnity, a retirement savings plan with competitive matching, and a robust mental‑well‑being program through Modern Health. The expected base pay range for this role in British Columbia is $187,634 to $275,196 CAD, with eligibility for discretionary incentive programs.

• Epic covers 100 % of benefits for employees and dependents, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, short‑term indemnity, retirement match, and mental‑well‑being program.
• Base pay range in British Columbia: $187,634–$275,196 CAD.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance