Senior Unity Developer (6 months FTC)

ITV plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ITV plc in London is seeking a senior Unity developer to join Metavision Studios to develop, and maintain live-ops for legacy titles. You will own design and technical decisions and help expand our Interactive Media portfolio.

You’ll collaborate with Studio and IP partners, work with a strong Art and Game Design team, migrate projects to newer Unity versions, and drive LiveOps for ongoing updates while upholding high standards across mobile and console platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with Unity and C# in live-ops-focused games.
• Proven ability to stabilise and extend legacy codebases.
• Experience migrating Unity projects to newer versions.
• Experience implementing multiplayer features and leaderboards.

Responsibilities

• Take design and technical ownership of 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 ideas into spec’d out features and updates, reporting to Programming Lead and Design.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across live titles, identifying solutions without disrupting player experience.
• Help establish the technical standards, tools and best practices for mobile and console development.

Skills

Unity engine

C# proficiency

LiveOps experience

Mobile gaming monetisation

Serverless architecture

Multiplayer/leaderboards

Git / GitHub

Problem solving legacy code

Team collaboration

English communication

Education

University Degree in CS or Game Development

Tools

PixiJS

Phaser

Beamable

IronSource

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
• C# Language Proficiency
• 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)

• HTML, CSS & Javascript experience

• PixiJS & Phaser experience
• University Degree in CS or Game Development & Programming (desirable)
• Lua, JS Experience, WebDev experience
• Open to using AI tools to assist workflow