Principal Software Engineer (Unity) - WWE Champions

Scopely; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Unity) to lead the WWE Champions team in Bangalore. You will shape architecture for the Unity client, drive live-ops features, and coordinate across design, product, QA, analytics, economy, and backend teams.

You will mentor engineers, raise quality, and own performance, tooling, and build processes for a large live-service mobile game ecosystem. This is a hands-on leadership role in a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in large production game clients or complex interactive apps.
• Proficient in C# and object-oriented design; strong Unity experience in mobile live-service titles.
• Design and maintain scalable client architecture for gameplay systems, UI, and data-driven features.
• Experience with iOS/Android integrations, performance tuning, memory management, and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for Unity client systems across gameplay, UI, and live events.
• Define architecture for large Unity/C# codebases emphasizing modularity and maintainability.
• Drive data-driven and live-ops systems, including feature flags and content pipelines like FlatBuffers.
• Collaborate with design, product, QA, analytics, backend, and live-ops to align architecture with roadmap.
• Improve engineering effectiveness with tooling, CI/build processes, reviews, and docs.
• Lead incident analysis and production issue resolution in mobile client systems and monetization flows.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and raise the overall quality bar.

Skills

C#

Unity

Architectural design

Live-service

Build automation

CI/CD

Profiling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

FlatBuffers

CI/CD pipelines

Mobile platforms

Job description

Scopely is looking for a Principal Software Engineer (Unity) to join the WWE Champions team in Bangalore!

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

WWE Champions is our ultimate and unique RPG puzzle match game featuring WWE superstars and legends across mobile and PC platforms. WWE Champions is the most downloaded WWE game to date, with a highly engaged and passionate community.

What You’ll Do

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the Game’s Unity client, shaping architecture, engineering standards, and delivery across a large live-service mobile game codebase. You will drive high-impact initiatives spanning gameplay systems, live-ops features, client infrastructure, performance, build reliability, platform integrations, and maintainability. This role is ideal for an engineer who can balance strategic technical direction with pragmatic execution in a complex production environment.

• Lead the technical direction of major client systems across gameplay, UI, live events, progression, offers, social features, and platform services
• Define and evolve architecture for a large Unity/C# codebase with an emphasis on modularity, testability, performance, and long-term maintainability
• Guide implementation of data-driven and live-ops systems, including event configuration, feature flags, localization, and content delivered through structured data pipelines such as FlatBuffers
• Partner closely with design, product, QA, analytics, economy, backend, and live-ops stakeholders to align client architecture with roadmap and operational needs
• Improve engineering effectiveness through better patterns, tooling, CI/build processes, code review standards, debugging practices, and technical documentation
• Lead difficult incident analysis and production issue resolution across mobile client systems, platform integrations, monetization flows, and event features
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, influence cross-team technical decisions, and raise the overall quality bar for the engineering organization

What We’re Looking For

• Experience Technical Skills
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience on large production game clients or similarly complex interactive applications
  • Deep expertise in C# and object-oriented software design
  • Strong experience with Unity in large-scale production environments, ideally on mobile live-service titles
  • Proven track record designing and maintaining scalable client architecture for gameplay systems, UI frameworks, event systems, or data-driven feature development
  • Experience with mobile platform development considerations for iOS and Android, including integrations, performance tuning, memory management, and release readiness
  • Strong understanding of client-side data pipelines, remote content/configuration, serialization, and schema-driven system
  • Experience working with build automation, CI/CD workflows, and release pipelines for mobile games
  • Strong debugging and profiling skills across runtime behavior, performance, memory, and production stability
  • Demonstrated ability to establish testing strategy and quality standards in large codebases
• Cross-Functional and Domain Knowledge
  • Deep familiarity with live-service game development, including progression systems, gacha/offers, PvP or event systems, social features, analytics, and monetization
  • Experience partnering with backend and live-ops teams to support fast iteration on time-bound content and feature rollouts
  • Ability to make strong technical tradeoffs in a content-heavy, operationally active game environment
  • Comfort leading cross-team initiatives with multiple dependencies and ambiguous constraints
• Soft Skills & Education
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Excellent communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder alignment skills
  • Strong mentorship and coaching ability across multiple experience levels.
  • High ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to bring clarity to complex technical problems
  • Passion for games and for building stable, maintainable systems that support great player experiences

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.

Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.

Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.