Staff Software Developer, Parsec

Unity Technologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Greater London is seeking a Senior Developer to join their innovative team, focusing on low-latency game streaming technology. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in a C codebase and familiarity with macOS and Windows app development. This role offers the opportunity to work on impactful technology for millions of users and requires strong problem-solving skills and the ability to interpret customer feedback for product improvement.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in a production C codebase.
• Familiarity with macOS and Windows application development.
• Experience with globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with UI encoding/decoding, networking, and more across platforms.
• Confidently deploy code to over 5 million users.
• Find low latency solutions for challenges.
• Listen to customer feedback to improve the product.

Skills

Production C codebase experience

macOS app development

Windows desktop application development

Problem-solving

Customer feedback interpretation

Job description

The opportunity

Parsec creates ultra-low latency high-performance remote desktop technology that empowers creative professionals to work from anywhere businesses to embrace flexible workplaces and individuals to play together from anywhere. Were growing so that we can help leaders in gaming entertainment engineering and architecture build the things we love whether theyre in the office or working from home. Parsec is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unity.

Parsec is hiring a Senior Developer to join our small but talented native team working on our low latency game streaming app. The Parsec app is the foundation of everything weve accomplished as a company and the product our customers use and love daily. Were looking for someone who will join our team drive innovation in the core technology and mentor other engineers at Parsec. To be successful youll need to be able to jump into C code without breaking a sweat pursue hard problems that you have no prior experience with and build lean modularized maintainable code.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with UI encoding / decoding networking input and much more across multiple platforms
• Jump into a C codebase on day one and confidently deploy code to more than 5 million people
• Be fascinated with building cutting edge technology in gaming from video rendering to UDP protocols
• Be obsessed with finding the right low latency solution to the challenges we face
• Listen to customer feedback interpret the needs of the broader community and find opportunities to delight our customers

What we’re looking for

• Hands on experience working in a production C codebase.
• Familiarity with macOS app development (e.g. IOKit CoreGraphics window / input management) and shipping native apps on macOS.
• Familiarity with Windows desktop application development.
• A deep desire to learn improve a product and make customers happy.
• Experience working with globally distributed team.

You might also have

• Familiarity with Linux / Ubuntu app development
• Familiarity with Windows Driver development
• Its definitely a bonus if youve worked in the video game industry or your wasd keys are worn out from playing too many games on your computer.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa / immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees well‑being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Unity NYSE : U is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators ranging from game developers to artists architects automotive designers infrastructure experts filmmakers and more use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms from mobile PC and console to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024 more than 70% of the top 1000 mobile games were made with Unity and in 2024 Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information please visit Unity.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age race color ancestry national origin religion disability sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers partners and collaborators. If you have a disability that means there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.