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ArenaNet

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2000

🎮 Gaming

Gaming

ArenaNet is a video game developer and studio best known for creating the Guild Wars series, including Guild Wars 2 and the upcoming Guild Wars 3. The company focuses on crafting online multiplayer role-playing games with strong artistic design, player-driven communities, and a blend of innovation and hand-crafted detail. ArenaNet also emphasizes workplace culture, diversity, and careers in game development.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain scalable UI systems and gameplay-facing interfaces in Unreal Engine 5 • Develop maintainable MVVM-style UI architecture and workflows using Unreal Engine tools and frameworks • Collaborate closely with UX designers to translate wireframes, flows, and mockups into polished in-game experiences at both the screen and widget level • Implement responsive interfaces that support multiple input schemes, including controller and keyboard/mouse • Build reusable UI systems, widgets, and components that support long-term scalability and maintainability • Partner with Gameplay, UI, and Engineering teams to integrate gameplay systems, player data, and backend-driven features into the UI layer • Develop and maintain UI functionality using both C++ and Blueprint workflows • Support iteration and polish through debugging, optimization, usability improvements, and feedback integration • Help identify and improve UI engineering workflows, pipelines, and technical standards across the project • Balance performance, usability, maintainability, and visual quality within production constraints

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience working as a UI Engineer, Gameplay Engineer, or related engineering role in games or interactive media • Experience building maintainable user interfaces in Unreal Engine 5 • Strong proficiency with Unreal Engine 5 UI systems, including UMG, Blueprint workflows, and gameplay-facing UI implementation • Proficiency with both C++ and Blueprint implementation • Experience supporting multiple input schemes, including controller and keyboard/mouse workflows • Experience collaborating closely with UX designers to translate designs into functional in-game experiences • Strong understanding of UI architecture, scalability, maintainability, and responsive UI design principles • Experience debugging, optimizing, and maintaining gameplay-facing UI systems • Strong communication and collaboration skills working across UX, Design, Gameplay, and Engineering teams • Self-motivated and comfortable operating in an iterative and collaborative development environment

🏖️ Benefits

• The role may be benefits-eligible through our third-party employer, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and flexible/dependent care accounts.