Lead Software Engineer (Gaming, Unity)

Company Size

Mid-Sized

Experience Required

7 - 10 years

Working Days

6 days/week

Office Location

Indiranagar, Bengaluru

Role & Responsibilities

We seek an experienced, highly technical, and exceptionally driven Lead Software Engineer to develop a world-class mobile games engineering team in India. You should be comfortable driving change, leading and motivating teams, providing direct feedback, solving complex problems, and, most importantly, establishing a high standard of performance.

Your team will be responsible for implementing highly performant, optimized, scalable, and easily maintainable code for an ambitious FPS shooter game.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a world-class engineering culture appropriate for our mobile games team.
• Set performance standards for engineering excellence and guide junior engineers to help them learn and improve.
• Address the most significant challenges of a shooter game, such as hit accuracy, server-authoritative gameplay, animations, memory utilization, and performance optimizations.
• Collaborate with product managers/producers, designers, and others to understand game features and break down engineering tasks for the team.
• Regularly run profilers to ensure code performance and quality.
• Lead code review sessions.
• Guarantee optimal performance, quality, and stability of the game.
• Develop live operations tools, editor tools, and automation.
  
  

Ideal Candidate

• Minimum Experience: 5-8 years.
• Extreme technical depth and willingness to spend at least 30% of time doing hands-on coding.
• Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
• Expert understanding of multithreading, asynchronous operations, and thread-safe code.
• Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Maniacal adherence to technical best practices and guidelines with a creative problem-solving approach.
• Deep understanding of data-oriented programming and the Unity DOTS framework.
• Familiarity with backend/networking is a plus.
  
  

Perks, Benefits and Work Culture

• We foster a culture of continuous learning.
• We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.
• Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.
• You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.
  
  

Skills: unity,games,software,profiling,code review,unity dots framework,asynchronous operations,mobile games,automation,multithreading,data-oriented programming,performance optimization,c#,code,mobile,operations,thread-safe code