Lead Software Engineer (gaming)

Overview

Role & Responsibilities

We seek an experienced, highly technical, and exceptionally driven Lead Software Engineer to develop a world-class mobile games engineering team in India. You should be comfortable driving change, leading and motivating teams, providing direct feedback, solving complex problems, and, most importantly, establishing a high standard of performance.

Your team will be responsible for implementing highly performant, optimized, scalable, and easily maintainable code for an ambitious 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 utilization, 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.

Ideal Candidate

• Minimum Experience: 5-8 years.
• Extreme technical depth and willingness to spend at least 30% of time doing hands-on coding.
• 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.
• Maniacal adherence to technical best practices and guidelines with a creative problem-solving approach.
• Deep understanding of data-oriented programming and the Unity DOTS framework.
• Familiarity with backend/networking is a plus.

Mandatory

• Strong Sr Unity Game Developer Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have 6+ years of hands-on experience in Unity game development.
• Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have experience in creating 3D games, Unity 3D and game mechanics implementation.
• Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have 1+ experience of managing a team
• Mandatory (Skills 1) - Strong expertise in multithreading, async operations, and writing thread-safe code
• Mandatory (Skills 2) - Must have deep understanding of data-oriented programming and Unity DOTS (Unity’s Data-Oriented Programming stack)
• Mandatory (Skills 3) - Must have experience in performance optimization, debugging, and mobile game deployment.

Preferred

• Preferred (Company) - Product companies
• Preferred (Experience) - Experience on developement of multiplayer games
• Preferred (Skills) - Have exposure to core FPS challenges: hit accuracy, server-authoritative gameplay, animations, memory management, performance optimization.

Job Specific Criteria

• CV Attachment is mandatory
• Are you open to work 6 days in WFO mode?
• Are you open to timings: 10am to 8pm(Monday to Friday), Saturday 12pm to 6pm?
• Are you okay for hands on coding (this role requires 30% coding and 70% team management)?
• What;s the team size you have managed?

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to ₹350,000.00 per month

Schedule:

• Day shift

Application Question(s):

• Current salary ?
• Expected salary ?
• Noticed period/(immediate/15 days /30 days)
• Do you have experience in Unity game development?

Work Location: In person