Senior Unity Developer (6 months FTC)

ITV; Greater London; Remoto; GBP 70.000 - 100.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Metavision Studios is seeking a Senior Unity Developer to lead the live-ops lifecycle, maintain legacy titles, and migrate projects to newer Unity versions. You will own technical direction and collaborate across disciplines to deliver features for mobile and console spaces.

Successful candidates will have extensive Unity experience, a strong LiveOps background, and a track record of shipping multiple live service titles.

Qualificações

• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand, stabilise, and document existing/legacy codebases.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience working with mid-senior levels in large organisations.
• Proven ability to self-motivate, work independently and collaboratively.
• Significant Unity experience and Live-Ops platform experience.
• Strong mobile gaming and monetisation experience.
• At least 3 published games, and 1 live service title.

Responsabilidades

• Take design and technical ownership of existing titles, maintain and evolve legacy codebases.
• Migrate legacy projects onto later Unity versions 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 features.
• Collaborate with the team to translate ideas into feature specifications, reporting to Programming Lead.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across live titles with pragmatic solutions.
• Help establish technical standards, tools and best practices for mobile and console expansion.

Conhecimentos

Unity engine

C# language

LiveOps

Serverless architecture

AI tooling

Multiplayer systems

Git/GitHub

Mobile gaming

Leadership

Formação

University degree in CS or game development

Ferramentas

PixiJS

Phaser

Lua

WebDev

Descrição da vaga

Workplace: We would like to consider candidates from all over the UK. If not close to White City we would be open to remote work.

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.
• Demonstrable experience using AI tools to assist workflow
• 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