Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform: C++ & WebAssembly

Unity; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Commute subsidy

Stock options

Retirement plan

Vacation days

Parental leave

Office snacks

Mental health programme

Employee groups

EAP

Training & development

Volunteer matching

Job summary

Unity is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Web Platform team. You will own meaningful areas of the Unity Web runtime, from design through release, and implement optimisations to reduce build size and improve startup performance.

You will tackle low-level challenges across C++, C#, and JavaScript, mentor peers, and collaborate with teams across Unity to push the Web platform forward. This is a full-time role based in the United Kingdom.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with C++ in performance-sensitive code.
• Experience with WebAssembly using Emscripten and/or LLVM.
• Ability to decompose complex technical problems and complete them with independent judgment.
• Experience profiling, debugging and optimizing across the native and browser boundary.
• Working knowledge of C# and JavaScript.
• Effective written/verbal communication with peers, managers and other teams.
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and raising code quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Own meaningful areas of the Unity Web runtime from design through to release.
• Research, design and implement optimizations to the Web build target.
• Improve download size, load and startup performance for Web builds.
• Solve uncommon, low-level problems across C++, C# and JavaScript.
• Partner with teams across Unity who build on the Web platform.
• Mentor teammates and help set the bar for code quality.
• Keep Unity at the frontier of the Web's evolving capabilities.

Skills

C++ performance

WebAssembly

Independent problem solving

Profiling & debugging

C# & JavaScript

Communication

Mentoring

Job description

Unity is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Web Platform team. You will own meaningful areas of the Unity Web runtime, from design through release, and implement optimisations to reduce build size and improve startup performance.

You will tackle low-level challenges across C++, C#, and JavaScript, mentor peers, and collaborate with teams across Unity to push the Web platform forward. This is a full-time role based in the United Kingdom.