Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking an experienced, highly technical, and exceptionally driven Lead Software Engineer to build a world-class mobile games engineering team in India. You should be comfortable with driving change, leading and motivating teams, providing direct feedback, solving complex problems, taking the initiative, and devising creative solutions.

Your team will be responsible for implementing highly performant and optimized features for an ambitious, unannounced FPS shooter game.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain a world-class engineering culture appropriate for our mobile games team.
• Set performance standards for engineering excellence and guide junior engineers to help them learn and improve.
• Address the most significant challenges of a shooter game, such as hit accuracy, server-authoritative gameplay, animations, memory and performance optimizations.
• Collaborate with product managers/producers, designers, and others to understand game features and break down engineering tasks for the team.
• Regularly run profilers to ensure code performance and quality.
• Lead code review sessions.
• Guarantee optimal performance, quality, and stability of the game.
• Develop live operations tools, editor tools, and automation.

Qualifications:

• Minimum Experience: 10+ years
• Expert knowledge of the Unity game engine and a proven track record of shipping commercially successful games.
• Ability to reasonably estimate and plan tasks and features.
• Expert understanding of multithreading, asynchronous operations, and thread-safe code.
• Proficient at profiling games to identify bottlenecks and performance issues.
• Adherence to technical best practices and guidelines, with a creative problem-solving approach.
• Deep experience and understanding of data-oriented programming and the Unity DOTS framework.
• Familiarity with backend/networking is a plus.