Sr. UI Engineer II

Undead Labs has an opportunity for a Senior UI Engineer II to bring their experience and technical skills to State of Decay 3. The State of Decay franchise has attracted a loyal fanbase of millions of players, and you’ll play a key role in delivering the next installment of our story for them to enjoy.

As a senior member of the team, you will work with a team of UI engineers to design and implement high-quality UI for the game, and influence our processes and practices to continually raise our quality bar. Your skills in software development, debugging, design, and documenting engineering practices will be critical to your success. You’ll tackle complex software engineering problems, lead by example, and support other engineers through teamwork and mentorship in our shared goal of creating an amazing product.

At Undead Labs, we work in highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary teams because we understand that the best ideas are ones we generate together. Our studio operates independently within a network of first-party Microsoft studios.

• →Work collaboratively with your colleagues to prototype, iterate on, and deliver a quality UI solution
• →Build custom design and asset pipelines to streamline UI authoring and design/engineering handoffs
• →Contribute to the core UI framework and help establish best practices around UI concerns like localization, accessibility, input management, data-binding, and more
• →Address UI performance by improving render cost, minimizing memory footprint, JavaScript execution overhead, and more
• →Apply your knowledge, critical thinking skills, unique perspective, and ideas to the production of our games. 
• →Be proactive in tackling technical issues.
• →Provide mentorship to other developers and help shape team-wide development practices and standards to ensure the team delivers high-quality work.

• Shipped at least one title
• Strong HTML/CSS/JS skills, with experience in large-scale or complex applications
• Excellent problem-solving skills and adaptability to changing requirements
• Passionate about developer experience and workflows, with a desire to improve how UI is created
• Pragmatic, with the ability to balance technical needs with business limitations
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and across disciplines
• 6+ years of experience developing game UI, or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Working knowledge of Unreal Engine (4 or 5, 5 preferred)

• Experience with Coherent Gameface
• Experience supporting a live service title
• Experience with Svelte UI framework

Reasonable accommodations can be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Close vision to monitors and screens, consistently working on computer equipment such as keyboards and monitors, long periods of sitting.
• Noise levels are low to moderate in the work environment.