Lead Unity Engineer

Mundo Gamer Network; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous learning opportunities

Honest feedback culture

Autonomy in game development

Job summary

Mundo Gamer Network seeks an experienced Lead Software Engineer to build a world-class mobile games engineering team in Bengaluru, India. You'll lead and motivate teams, implement high-performance code, and tackle complex gaming challenges.

The ideal candidate will have 5-8 years of experience, strong technical skills in multithreading, and a commitment to best practices. This role offers autonomy in developing exciting game products within a culture of continuous learning.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in software engineering, focused on mobile games.
• Expert understanding of multithreading and performance optimization.
• Willingness to engage in hands-on coding and technical best practices.

Responsibilities

• Establish a world-class engineering culture for mobile games.
• Set engineering performance standards and guide junior engineers.
• Address performance challenges, such as hit accuracy and memory utilization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to break down tasks.
• Regularly assess code performance and lead code reviews.

Skills

Multithreading

Asynchronous operations

Thread-safe code

Profiling games

Data-oriented programming

Unity DOTS framework

Backend/networking familiarity

Job description

We seek an experienced, highly technical, exceptionally driven Lead Software Engineer to develop a world-class mobile games engineering team in India. You should be comfortable driving change, leading and motivating teams, providing direct feedback, solving complex problems, and, most importantly, establishing a high standard of performance.

Your team will be responsible for implementing highly performant, optimized, scalable, and easily maintainable code for an ambitious FPS shooter game.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a world-class engineering culture appropriate for our mobile games team.
• Set performance standards for engineering excellence and guide junior engineers to help them learn and improve.
• Address the most significant challenges of a shooter game, such as hit accuracy, server-authoritative gameplay, animations, memory utilization, and performance optimizations.
• Collaborate with product managers/producers, designers, and others to understand game features and break down engineering tasks for the team.
• Regularly run profilers to ensure code performance and quality.
• Lead code review sessions.
• Guarantee optimal performance, quality, and stability of the game.
• Develop live operations tools, editor tools, and automation.

Qualifications

• Minimum Experience: 5-8 years.
• Extreme technical depth and willingness to spend at least 30% of time doing hands‑on coding.
• Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
• Expert understanding of multithreading, asynchronous operations, and thread-safe code.
• Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Maniacal adherence to technical best practices and guidelines with a creative problem-solving approach.
• Deep understanding of data-oriented programming and the Unity DOTS framework.
• Familiarity with backend/networking is a plus.

Benefits

• We foster a culture of continuous learning.
• We value talent and the ability for significant self-improvement.
• Honest feedback and transparency across all departments allow for rapid skill development.
• You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting new game development product with complete autonomy.

Eligibility & Cultural Fit

• At Lila Games, we prioritize honest and direct communication.
• We seek individuals who are masters of their craft or are committed to becoming one.
• We value talent and the ability to improve significantly.
• A strong work ethic and dedication to the product are essential.
• Please carefully review the LILA Games Business Values before applying.

Lila Games is a learning organization, and one of the fundamental principles of our company is to unlock human potential with learning through challenging work. We seek those who desire to become masters of their craft. You should expect to supercharge your learning once you get into this role, but hard work and effort are expected.