Remote Lead Unity Game Developer - Live Ops & Multiplayer

Magic Media; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanently remote position

Job summary

Magic Media is seeking an experienced lead Unity game developer to steer a talented engineering team. You will own architecture, SDK integration, and the end-to-end delivery of updates for a cloud-streamed party game, coordinating with Helsinki stakeholders and the producer.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Unity, prior lead experience, and a track record shipping a large title. Strong communication, mentoring skills, and deep knowledge of performance, multi-threading, and backend features

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.
• A passion for video games.
• 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

Leadership

Architecture design

SDK integration

Async multiplayer

Tools

Unity 6.3

URP

FMOD

TypeScript/React

Job description

Magic Media is seeking an experienced lead Unity game developer to steer a talented engineering team. You will own architecture, SDK integration, and the end-to-end delivery of updates for a cloud-streamed party game, coordinating with Helsinki stakeholders and the producer.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Unity, prior lead experience, and a track record shipping a large title. Strong communication, mentoring skills, and deep knowledge of performance, multi-threading, and backend features