Senior UI Engineer, Game - Experience

The Shrapnel team is seeking bright minds from every culture, discipline, and background to join us on a new creative endeavor.

We’re a mission-focused team with industry roots in world-class game development, studio building, and platform creation.

Our goal is empowering the world to share in our playful collaboration at the intersection of gaming, creation, and ownership.

Engineering leadership within UX is a critical ingredient to our success. Come join our mission to create the future of entertainment. On this team, you will lead crafting tooling and tech solutions that push the boundaries of the in-game experience while empowering the game and UX teams to get the experience on the screen faster. Your work will help deliver more game iterations with the highest performance possible. You’ll be empowered and given autonomy. Your ideas will matter.

The Job

• Contribute to Unreal Engine development for the In-Game UI, focusing on end-to-end implementation
• Design and develop the user interface architecture with C++, Unreal UMG, and middleware technologies in a way that will enable both game and UX/UI Designers through scalable tools and services using best in class code solutions.
• Work with Game and content creators to construct tools that ensure both interface systems and gameplay are easy to iterate on, extend and maintain.
• Champion UI performance, stability, and consistency throughout the development of the project and beyond.
• Be an advocate for both players and developers in crafting a best-in-class game experience
• Provide thought leadership on game interface solutions that push the boundaries of the technology and team alike.
• Use your strong communication skills to collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams.

Who Will Be A Great Fit

We welcome your uniqueness. Research shows that diverse teams do the best work. Our customers are all over the world, and from all walks of life. It's important that we’re not all the same, so that we can draw on our differences, what we’ve experienced, and how we think.

• 5+ years working in games using game engines and building in-game UI solutions delivering in-game experiences. 
• Shipped atleast 1 game on a platform other than mobile, through the full development cycle. 
• Passionate about building tools, systems, and process to improve the way games are made.
• Understand how critical the distance from concept to screen is and strive to reduce the length whenever possible
• Driven by crafting quality in the customer experience and participating in not just the engineering discussions, but all discussions where your unique perspective can have an impact.
• A drive to jump in with both hands to create unique solutions
• An advanced understanding of C++, Blueprint, Unreal Engine, UMG, and industry middleware.
• Great communication and problem-solving skills
• Deep understanding of common user interface concepts like layout, text, event-driven programming, and control widgets.
• Experience building programmatic motion and design systems to enable – ‘build once and use anywhere’ game development.
• Experience working with localization/internationalization/culturalization, and accessibility systems and dealing with related issues.
• Someone who is user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These are the key traits to being a part of the team.
• Commitment to personal and peer development and sharing best practices.
• The ideal candidate has considerable experience contributing to a large cutting-edge code base and extensive experience creating UI. The role requires prior experience developing UI for UE4.       

Nice to Have

• Experience building code driven animation systems
• Experience delivering UX related tools to empower creators
• Office365 and Google Suite proficiency.
• A mindset of continuous improvement; humble and ambitious.
• Prior experience in a startup environment or small business.
• Adaptable, with a good sense of humor.
• Multi-lingual

The Perks

• Competitive Salary and excellent Benefits.
• Flexible hours, with the potential of remote working.
• Visibility and input to business strategy, including technology and creative partners.
• Autonomy and latitude within your role.
• Seattle’s healthy living and vibrant city culture.
• Tight knit, highly experienced, fun-loving team.

Additional Information

The base salary range for this full-time position is $180K - 220K + stocks + tokens + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Seniority Level: Senior-Level

Industry: Video Games, Blockchain, AR, VR, UX, UI  

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Functions: UI Development, Design Systems, Animation systems, Tools Development, Communication

Employment Type: Full-time – Onsite/Hybrid preferred, open to Remote

The Fine Print

At Shrapnel we prefer working in-office, together. We believe working in the same space can accelerate progress, improve collaboration, and is definitely more fun. But in-office work doesn't make sense for everyone at this time, and technology makes certain remote work possible. So for certain roles and perfect candidates we are open to discussing remote work. Please apply and we’ll decide case by case. 

NEON Machine Inc and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.