Tech Lead – Unreal Developer

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Sourcing Unicorns

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏨 Hospitality

Consulting • Marketing • Hospitality

Sourcing Unicorns is a specialized recruitment agency focused on sourcing unique creative and technical talent in the creative sectors such as immersive installations, experiential marketing, 3D animation, VFX, gaming, dubbing, and theme parks. They provide tailored recruitment strategies, headhunting missions, and employer branding services to help organizations find and retain the right talent, which they believe is as unique as unicorns. Their services include in-house recruiting, pipeline activation, and headhunting coaching, ensuring they meet the specific needs of their clients in dynamic creative industries.

📋 Description

• Take technical ownership of the architecture, development, integration, and final delivery of a complex Unreal Engine application for an immersive, interactive experience • Bridge creative development, technical art, third-party software development, and physical AV systems integration • Own, develop, and maintain the Technical Design Document • Define application architecture, software dependencies, integration requirements, and technical workflows • Establish development standards for C++, Blueprints, project organization, and source control • Identify technical risks, performance constraints, and integration challenges • Lead development, integration, optimization, packaging, deployment, testing, debugging, and final delivery of the Unreal Engine application • Implement and maintain core systems using C++ and Blueprints • Integrate independently developed features, assets, and visual systems • Collaborate with the Producer and development team to translate requirements into JIRA tasks • Define dependencies, priorities, acceptance criteria, estimates, and blockers • Communicate technical progress, risks, and integration requirements to stakeholders • Consult with AV integrators and hardware vendors on GPU/CPU requirements, rendering, displays, and system architecture • Support external hardware, display systems, control interfaces, commissioning, and deployment • Coordinate web-based UI overlay integration with a third-party vendor • Define communication interfaces between Unreal Engine and web UI components • Collaborate with Technical Artists on graphics, shaders, materials, effects, and visual systems • Establish performance budgets and optimize visual assets for target frame rates and hardware requirements

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced experience developing and delivering applications using Unreal Engine 5 • Strong proficiency in Unreal C++ development, debugging, and application architecture • Advanced knowledge of Blueprint systems and best practices for combining Blueprints with C++ • Experience profiling and optimizing GPU/CPU performance, shaders, materials, and real-time rendering • Experience designing modular, maintainable software systems and integrating work from multiple developers • Ability to take ownership of technical decisions, coordinate dependencies, and guide development efforts across multiple disciplines • Experience with Git, Perforce, or equivalent version control systems • Experience building, troubleshooting, packaging, and deploying production-ready Unreal Engine applications • Candidates must be able to work and collaborate during US business hours (US time zones), regardless of location • Preferred: familiarity with JavaScript / TypeScript • Preferred: experience integrating React-based interfaces or web overlays with Unreal Engine • Preferred: practical experience using AI coding assistants • Preferred: experience building custom shaders, materials, and advanced rendering effects in Unreal Engine • Preferred: experience developing software for museums, exhibitions, themed entertainment, or location-based experiences • Preferred: experience with external control systems, hardware communication protocols, and real-time event-driven applications • Preferred: experience with unattended installations, application monitoring, recovery workflows, and long-duration runtime stability

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusive hiring process welcoming talent from all walks of life • Applications reviewed for future opportunities if not a fit for this role