Senior Unity Developer (6 months FTC)

ITV Studios; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Metavision Studios is seeking a Senior Unity Developer to own live-ops on legacy projects and guide the mobile expansion strategy. You will migrate games to newer Unity versions, manage serverless infrastructure for multiplayer, and collaborate across engineering, design, and IP partners.

The role requires strong LiveOps platform experience, 3+ published games, and the ability to work in a hybrid setup with office days in White City, London.

Qualifications

• Minimum experience with Unity-based projects and LiveOps.
• 3+ published games and 1 live service title required.
• Ability to migrate legacy projects to newer Unity versions.
• Experience with serverless architectures and LiveOps platforms.
• Strong collaboration and documentation skills for cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Take design and technical ownership of existing titles, maintaining, stabilising and evolving legacy codebases.
• Migrate legacy projects onto later versions of Unity and other platforms.
• Transfer and manage ownership of app stores from partners to new holding groups.
• Lead ongoing LiveOps on live projects and their update lifecycle.
• Maintain and evolve serverless infrastructure and 3rd party data hosting for multiplayer, matchmaking and leaderboards.
• Work with team to translate ideas into spec’d features and updates, reporting to Programming Lead and Design.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across live titles and provide pragmatic solutions.
• Help establish technical standards, tools and best practices for mobile/console development.

Skills

Bitbucket/Git/Github

IronSource

Beamable

Serverless

Unity

Social/Multiplayer features

Legacy code maintenance

Interpersonal skills

Self-motivation

Live-Ops Platform Experience

Mobile gaming monetisation

Education

University Degree in CS or Game Development & Programming (desirable)

Tools

Unity

Job description

Workplace: White City, London - 3 days a week in the office

The role

We are looking for a senior unity developer to join our ranks at Metavision Studios to develop, and maintain live-ops of our legacy projects. In doing so, you’d play a core part in our mission to expand and build on the success of our IPs as we build out our Interactive Media portfolio.

This is a high impact role, where you’d be accountable for how Metavision Studios steps into the more legacy mobile & console spaces. Sat within our wider UGC team at Metavision, you’d be part of the foundation of mobile expansion working with our Studio and IP partners, Metavision Team and wider Zoo55 cohort alongside a strong Art and Game Design team.

Main responsibilities

• Take design and technical ownership of our existing titles, maintaining, stabilising and evolving legacy codebases as we develop new features and updates.
• Migrate legacy projects onto later versions of Unity, and other platforms.
• Transfer and manage ownership of app store(s) from partners to new holding groups.
• Lead ongoing LiveOps on live projects and their update lifecycle.
• Maintain and evolve our serverless infrastructure and 3rd party data hosting for Multiplayer, Matchmaking and Leaderboards.
• Work closely with the rest of the team to translate and ideate ideas into spec’d out features and updates, reporting to Programming Lead and Design.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across live titles, identifying pragmatic solutions without disrupting player experience.
• Help establish the technical standards, tools and best practices that support Metavision Studios expansion into mobile and console development.

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Experience with Bitbucket/Git/Github, IronSource and Beamable / similar LiveOps Platforms.
• Experience running and optimising for serverless architecture.
• Experience migrating versions of Unity and problem solving.
• Experience running and optimising for serverless architecture.
• Experience implementing social and multiplayer features (leaderboards, matchmaking) into existing titles.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand, stabilize, and document existing/legacy codebases with limited documentation.
• Strong interpersonal skills experience, working directly with mid-senior levels in large organisations
• Proven ability to self-motivate, work independently and work collaboratively
• Significant Unity Experience
• Strong Live-Ops Platform Experience
• Strong mobile gaming & monetisation experience
• At least 3 published games, and 1 live service title.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• University Degree in CS or Game Development & Programming (desirable)
• Open to using AI tools to assist workflow