Lead Unity Developer for Cloud-Connected Live Ops - Remote

Magic Media; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanently remote position

International team collaboration

Career growth and development

Flexible working hours

Ongoing training and self-improvement

Job summary

Magic Media is seeking a lead Unity game developer to steer a cross‑functional engineering team. You will own architecture, plan updates with the producer, and establish pipelines and telemetry while mentoring a team of developers.

You will oversee async multiplayer features, live-ops content, and performance optimization, collaborating with an international studio for a cloud streamed, TV‑bound game.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Unity game developer.
• Previous experience as Lead Developer of a team of more than 6 developers.
• Leading the development of at least one large game title from A-Z.
• Availability for daily working-hours overlap with Helsinki (EET/EEST).
• Shipped client engineering work on a multiplayer, party, casual or two-screen game; live-ops experience on a live title is a strong plus.
• Strong skills in Unity having delivered a few titles at least.
• Excellent architectural abilities.
• Capable of mentoring juniors and regulars.
• Should be familiar with performance bottlenecks and ways to resolve them, multi-threading, OS concepts and optimization.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong reporting and documentation skills.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to new technological changes as per project need.
• Ability to design and estimate backend-facing client features such as asynchronous multiplayer, persistent state, leaderboards and session sync.
• Live-ops delivery experience: data-driven content pipelines, seasonal content, and re-planning quickly in response to player feedback and live KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the client engineering team and taking over from the original developers.
• Own the architecture and SDK/platform integration.
• Plan and estimate each update with the producer.
• Set up the pipeline, tooling and telemetry.
• Oversee backend-facing features such as async multiplayer.
• Code review and mentoring.

Skills

Unity

Lead Developer

Mentoring

Multiplayer

Live-ops delivery

Architecture

Performance bottlenecks

Debugging

Communication skills

Documentation skills

Tools

React

TypeScript

Job description

Magic Media is seeking a lead Unity game developer to steer a cross‑functional engineering team. You will own architecture, plan updates with the producer, and establish pipelines and telemetry while mentoring a team of developers.

You will oversee async multiplayer features, live-ops content, and performance optimization, collaborating with an international studio for a cloud streamed, TV‑bound game.