Staff Unity Game Engineer & Cloud Backend Lead

Scopely

Bellevue (WA)

On-site

USD 169,000 - 253,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Scopely Explore is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Game Development to provide technical leadership across Unity-based game clients and cloud-hosted backend services. You will set technical direction, influence multiple teams, and balance near-term game development with long-term platform health and scalability.

The role demands hands-on architecture, collaboration with product/design/game teams, and mentoring across levels.

Qualifications

Significant professional experience building and shipping production game systems using Unity.
Strong experience designing and operating backend game services using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud infrastructure.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple systems or teams, with a track record of influencing architecture and execution.
Must have shipped at least 3 titles on Mobile, PC/Mac, or Console.
Must have a passion for Pokémon Go.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and implementation of end-to-end game systems spanning Unity client development, backend services, data storage, and cloud infrastructure.
Drive technical vision and architectural decisions across client and server systems, balancing performance, scalability, and maintainability.
Partner closely with product, design, and game teams to translate high-level game concepts into concrete, scalable technical solutions.
Build and evolve shared game services, client frameworks, and backend components used across multiple games or features.
Influence technical standards, best practices, and system design across teams through design reviews, documentation, and mentorship.
Ensure reliability and operational excellence of live games by participating in code reviews, writing tests, and guiding troubleshooting and incident response.
Mentor engineers across levels and act as a trusted technical leader within cross-functional teams.