Senior / Lead Unity Engineer

Summary

A senior Unity engineer and natural team lead who has built mobile games from the first line of code to soft launch. Spent six and a half years at a mobile studio that grew from 20 to 200 people, on gameplay, metagame, multiplayer and tools across hit and new titles, then led engineering on a word game from scratch through to soft launch and its acquisition by a major mobile publisher.

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Day rate (contract)

£410 / day

Annual salary (permanent)

£51,000 to £68,000 / year

Open to

Permanent · Contract

Availability

Available now

Skills

• Unity
• C#
• Gameplay programming
• Multiplayer & networking
• Backend & server architecture
• PlayFab
• Tools development
• UI & MVVM architecture
• SDK integration (Firebase, AppsFlyer)
• DOTS
• C++
• Team leadership & mentoring

Experience

• 9+ years of professional Unity development: gameplay, UI, animation, features, tools and server infrastructure, with a strong generalist range.
• Most recently Senior & Lead Engineer in the mobile division of a well-known UK studio, leading teams of up to five. On a word game he built the core gameplay, features, PlayFab backend, MVVM architecture and SDK integrations (Firebase, AppsFlyer) from scratch to soft launch, before a major mobile publisher acquired the game.
• Also led engineering on a difficult racing project there, with a coaching and mentoring role keeping the team's morale high.
• Six and a half years at a mobile studio that grew from a 20-person startup to 200 people after acquisition by a major publisher. On its sci-fi strategy title ($100M+ revenue) he implemented gameplay, metagame and UI systems.
• Spent three years on gameplay and tools for an unreleased AAA turn-based RPG built on a major licensed IP: visual scripting tools so designers and artists could build character abilities and cinematics, and a custom animation system on Timeline and Playables. Became the de facto technical lead, mentoring junior developers.
• Built the multiplayer layer and real-time features for a MOBA-style mobile game: battle behaviours, character abilities, VFX and networking. Also set up the full foundation and level tooling for a city-building puzzle game.

Motivations

Wants a role that uses all of his experience in a smaller, solid team, with autonomy and room to keep learning.

Recruiter notes

Has done the whole journey: scratch to soft launch to acquisition, so he knows what a small team needs from its lead engineer at each stage.

A knack for leading. He adapts to whatever the project needs and has kept a team motivated through a tough project.

Full-stack for mobile games: gameplay and UI on the client, PlayFab and server architecture on the back end, plus the tools that let designers ship content without engineers.

Available now.

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Discipline

Game engineering

Industry

Games

Categories

Casual · Midcore

Genres

Strategy · Puzzle · RPG

Expertise

LiveOps

Location

Barcelona, Spain · Not relocating