Senior Web Platform Engineer: WASM & Browser Runtime

Unity; Brighton; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, life, and long‑/

Commuting subsidy

Employee stock ownership

Pension / retirement plans

Generous vacation and personal days

Training and development programs

Volunteering and donation matching

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Web Platform to own areas of the Web runtime from design to release. You will optimize Web builds, reduce download sizes, and improve startup performance while solving cross-language, low-level challenges in C++, C#, and JavaScript.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor peers to uphold high code quality. You will contribute to advancing the Web platform and ensuring Unity's Web capabilities stay cutting-edge across

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on proficiency with C++ in performance-sensitive code.
• Experience with WebAssembly, using Emscripten and/or LLVM.
• Ability to decompose complex technical problems and act on your own judgment.
• Experience profiling, debugging and optimizing across 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 release.
• Research, design and implement optimizations to the Web build target, e.g. stripping unused code and progressive asset loading.
• Improve download size, load and startup performance for Web builds with measurable targets.
• Solve low-level problems across C++, C#, and JavaScript, including multi-threading enhancements.
• Collaborate with teams across Unity to translate needs into platform work.
• Mentor teammates and raise the bar for code quality across the team.
• Keep Unity at the frontier of the Web's evolving capabilities.

Skills

C++

WebAssembly

C#

JavaScript

Mentoring

Job description

Unity is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Web Platform to own areas of the Web runtime from design to release. You will optimize Web builds, reduce download sizes, and improve startup performance while solving cross-language, low-level challenges in C++, C#, and JavaScript.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor peers to uphold high code quality. You will contribute to advancing the Web platform and ensuring Unity's Web capabilities stay cutting-edge across