UI Engineering Lead (Unreal Engine, C++)
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Would you like to work on a new IP and new genre that combines an amazing action feel with lighthearted and whimsical characters? Do you revel in creating delightful and seamless user experiences for both players and developer workflows alike?
As a UI Engineering Lead, you will help bring the UX vision of the Design team to life by implementing responsive and stable UI systems in the Unreal Engine. Most importantly, you will work with a fun and dedicated cross-discipline team devoted to making a new franchise at teamLFG.
We look for candidates who value joining a mission-focused team with a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences, interests, and viewpoints.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• With minimal oversight, build and maintain production-quality UI systems, workflows, and tools in C++ on Unreal 5
• Directly hire, manage and lead engineers working within the UI subdiscipline, providing support, technical mentorship, constructive feedback, and career development coaching
• Provide technical guidance in UX/UI systems to empower teammates across a wide variety of gameplay disciplines
• Collaborate daily with a cross-disciplinary team to build new player experiences
REQUIRED SKILLS
• Ability to write, debug, and maintain code in C++
• Ability to communicate with customers of different technical and non-technical backgrounds to help them navigate technology and achieve their goals
• Experience building and maintaining a broad variety of UX/UI systems, from HUDs and front-end menus to fonts and localization workflows
• Experience leading (direct management, mentoring, or guiding) engineers
• Experience with development using the Unreal Engine
NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS
• Experience with development on a variety of platforms (PC, console)
• Experience with real-time action multiplayer games
• Experience shipping one or more game titles
• Experience with codev or contractors
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View Company ProfileteamLFG is a premier, enterprise-grade game development studio within the PlayStation Studios™ family, engineered to orchestrate massive-scale social multiplayer ecosystems and intelligent, frictionless action-gameplay workflows. Operating as a Bellevue-based innovation hub, the studio eliminates the operational friction of traditional, legacy multiplayer models—which frequently suffer from fragmented community-engagement, opaque social-integration, and disconnected player-belonging—by seamlessly deploying advanced "social-first" game-design telemetry, rigorous action-combat architectures, and cohesive cross-platform community-building frameworks. Moving beyond rigid legacy solo-campaign paradigms, teamLFG empowers global players to dynamically synchronize their cooperative-action, competitive-mastery, and long-term community-interaction pipelines with elite, scalable, and audit-ready execution. Under the hood, their sophisticated proprietary operational infrastructure—bolstered by a team of industry veterans from titles like Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, and Fortnite—natively manages complex global player-interaction ingestion, instantaneous cross-world social-routing, and automated community-retention workflows, providing the necessary operational foundation to support the modern, social-first gaming economy. What sets teamLFG apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless community-orchestration; by bridging the gap between highly technical, performance-intensive action-gameplay demands and accessible, high-velocity social-connectivity interfaces, the firm empowers modern gaming organizations to radically accelerate their player-engagement velocity, eliminate systemic community-bottlenecks, and build an unassailable foundation for continuous commercial and institutional dominance in the modern, AI-transformed global-gaming landscape.
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