Unreal Technical Lead

**To be considered for this role, you must have the legal right to work in New Zealand or Australia*
**About us**

At Synty Studios we power the digital world, supercharging content production with our team of world-class talent.

We work fully remote across New Zealand and Australia, bringing creative ideas to life through award winning digital assets for Gaming, Film, TV, Websites and the Metaverse. No matter what our team is doing, we’re infusing as much craft and creativity as we can cram in

**Working at Synty**

You’ll be joining a friendly world-class team with great leadership that encourages and supports people’s creativity inside and outside of work. No two days will be the same, you’ll be surrounded by diverse personalities while being encouraged to express yourself.

**What you’ll be doing**

Are you a programmer, who’s interested in 3D Art? This could be the role for you

As the Unreal Technical Lead you will work with the asset production team to create and manage a pipeline for our content to be ported from Unity (our lead platform) to the Unreal Engine.

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Leveraging your knowledge of Unity and Unreal Engine you'll create tools and processes to automate and streamline the porting process, allowing us to quickly deliver assets to the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

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Working with our Tech Support you'll help deliver updates and bug fixes on a regular basis. quality of assets on the Unreal Engine Marketplace by working with Tech Support to help deliver updates and bug fixes on a regular basis.

**Requirements**:
Experienced with:

- Models, Materials, Collision, Characters in Unreal.
- Rebuilding custom shaders implemented in Unity’s Amplify Shader Editor in the Unreal native shader editor.
- Finding or creating tools to transfer Demo scenes from Unity to the Unreal Engine.
- Creating tools and processes to automate and streamline the transfer of new assets and updates between engines.
- Communicating new learnings and best practices to the team to improve our asset production pipeline.
- Working closely with Technical Support teams to improve the quality of assets on the Unreal Engine Marketplace.

**Professional**
- Communicates clearly and concisely with the ability to work with team members remotely
- Proven ability to manage your time effectively
- Understands and appreciates different and opposing perspectives
- Enjoys achieving and collaborating with a positive can-do attitude

**Perks**

We want you to do your best work, while enjoying it too. So, as well as a welcoming environment, we offer a range of added perks:

- We all work from home
- Diverse and interesting projects with world leading game platforms and technologies
- A company culture that embraces the 'quirky', doesn't take itself too seriously and thrives off puns
- Weekly Friday afternoon virtual events
- An environment where you can learn from a world-class team of specialists in what they do
- Flexible working with a healthy work-life balance (we don’t do overtime)
- Competitive pay and Share Option Scheme
- Creativity days once a month to get creative or learn something new

**Recruitment Process**

Here at Synty we tend to have a three stage recruitment process. We look for people who add to our existing culture and help us smash our goals - we don’t want to stick to a status quo, so we believe that these steps are important to see if we click. These opportunities are also for you to get to know as many team members as possible, give you a feel for how we work, and a sense of the vibe of Synty.

We know that accepting a job offer is a big decision, and for there to be commitment on both sides, we understand that you need lots of data points to make informed decisions.

**Stages**

**First interview**:

- meet the People Team and the People Leader of the role. You will get an idea of their leadership style and get a feel of what the job will be like on a daily basis.

**Second interview**:

- this is where it gets a bit deeper
- we dive into the grit of what it takes to succeed in the role. We will always try to put you in a room with two other people you will work with the closest, so you get to know them better too.

**References** - we’re confident about our hiring process, and the decisions made around bringing on new team members are always collaborative. We aim to identify people who can add to our culture, so by this stage we’re feeling pretty good about it all. Don’t be surprised if we’re calling your referees and drafting your offer in parallel to these conversations Professional or personal referees.

We strive to be transparent on how we operate here at Synty, so you know what’s going on in the background of your recruitment process. We know job hunting is time and energy consuming; so thanks again for your deciding we’re worth the investment.

We look forward to getting to know you better