Senior Unity LiveOps Engineer | Remote UK

ITV plc; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Unity engine

C# language

LiveOps

Serverless architecture

AI tooling

Multiplayer systems

Git/GitHub

Mobile gaming

Leadership

Education

University degree in CS or game development

Tools

PixiJS

Phaser

Lua

WebDev

Job description

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.