Senior Unity Programmer for Live Mobile Games

Outerdawn Limited; Auckland; Remote; NZD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Visa sponsorship

Wellness days

Social events

Coffee and snacks

Job summary

Outerdawn Limited in Auckland is seeking an experienced Senior Unity Programmer to design, implement, and own core gameplay systems for a live mobile game. You will collaborate with designers, artists, backend engineers, and production teams to deliver performant, scalable features that delight players.

The role emphasizes strong Unity/C# expertise, data-driven architectures, and a proactive problem-solving approach, with focus on memory management, profiling, and cross-team communication.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional game development experience, ideally within mobile gaming.
• Strong Unity and C# experience, with a deep understanding of how Unity works under the hood.
• Experience designing and developing complex gameplay systems in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and the ability to make practical engineering trade-offs.
• Experience with performance optimisation, debugging, profiling, and writing efficient code for mobile platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own core gameplay systems in Unity and C# that are robust, scalable, and easy for the wider team to build upon.
• Create flexible and data-driven systems that allow designers to iterate safely and efficiently.
• Make thoughtful architecture decisions, balancing technical requirements, development effort, and player experience.
• Write efficient, high-quality code with an understanding of mobile performance considerations.
• Profile and investigate performance issues, focusing optimisation efforts where they have the greatest impact.
• Work across a range of gameplay systems, such as UI, animation, economy, networking, persistence, and other core game technologies.
• Build systems that support a live game environment, including safe updates, content releases, and maintaining player stability over time.

Skills

Unity

C#

Mobile gaming

Performance optimization

Tools

DOTS

ECS

Jobs

Burst

Job description

Outerdawn Limited in Auckland is seeking an experienced Senior Unity Programmer to design, implement, and own core gameplay systems for a live mobile game. You will collaborate with designers, artists, backend engineers, and production teams to deliver performant, scalable features that delight players.

The role emphasizes strong Unity/C# expertise, data-driven architectures, and a proactive problem-solving approach, with focus on memory management, profiling, and cross-team communication.