About the position
Soldiers, scientists, adventurers, oddities…engineers! We are the Overwatch team, passionate gamers at heart, and we're looking for a new hero to help us make Overwatch 2 - the globe-spanning sequel to Blizzard Entertainment's acclaimed team-based game. We are seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced Gameplay UI Engineer who shares our values: We take responsibility for delivering our work. We collaborate constantly, helping each other to be successful. We continuously improve our knowledge, workflows and processes. We communicate openly, calling out issues, opportunities, and sharing feedback. We have integrity, maintain confidentiality, and share a sense of ownership in our success. We have passion for the game, our players, quality work, and technology.
Responsibilities
- Partner with designers, artists, producers, and other engineers to create compelling and exciting user interfaces
- Contribute to the design of the UI features and systems both aesthetically, and functionally
- Develop new functionality in the underlying UI framework to support new gameplay features
- Play an active role in supporting the game by helping to address issues in production
- Continuously refine skills, workflows, and processes to drive innovation and efficiency
Requirements
- A minimum of 3 years' professional game programming experience or equivalent
- Game user interface design and implementation experience
- Solid C++ programming skills and an understanding of common user interface concepts
- Ability to collaborate effectively, embrace feedback, and grow within a dynamic team environment
- Self-motivated and self-directing, willing to pitch in on other areas of development
- The desire to improve the player experience and make our game accessible to everyone who plays
Nice-to-haves
- Experience developing and maintaining live games
- Familiarity with UX considerations for gamepad and keyboard/mouse inputs
- Experience working with localization/internationalization systems
- Experience with visual scripting languages such as Blueprint
- Familiarity with ECS and MVVM architectures
- Proficiency in UI authoring languages like XAML, React, or SwiftUI, or scripting languages such as Python
- Passion for first person shooters
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job
